Supreme Court

Supreme Court Hands Trump a Historic Win in Immunity Case

By Yuval Rosenberg

Welcome to July! It’s only the first of the month, but we’ve already got fireworks going off in the nation’s capital, where the Supreme Court handed down a landmark 6-3 ruling , decided along...
Why Big Banks Could Still Pay a Big Price for the Housing Crisis

By Rob Garver

In a piece of moderately good news for cities where the bursting of the housing bubble of the last decade devastated local real estate values and the municipal tax base, the Supreme Court has opened...
The Threatened Gorsuch Filibuster Will Backfire on Democrats for a Long Time

By Liz Peek

The Donnybrook over the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court makes it clear: the Extreme Left has hijacked the Democratic Party. That’s a tragedy for Democrats, and for the country.
McConnell Prepared to Invoke ‘Nuclear Option’ to Confirm Gorsuch

By Eric Pianin

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) vowed on Sunday that – one way or another – the Senate will confirm President Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court by the end of...
The Gorsuch Vote Will Show the Democrats Can’t Govern, Either

By Edward Morrissey

Senate Democrats had come under severe pressure from progressive activist groups to find a reason to block Gorsuch’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, part of a strategy of “resistance” to the Trump...

Appeals Court Rules Against Trump on Travel Ban

By Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post

A federal appeals court has maintained the freeze on President Trump’s controversial immigration order, meaning previously barred refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries can...
Pence Does Damage Control After Trump’s Embarrassing Judicial Setbacks

By Eric Pianin

The administration on Sunday attempted to put a positive face on a weekend of embarrassing judicial setbacks that at least temporarily put President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban on...
Trump May Be the First Test Case for His Own Supreme Court Nominee

By Rob Garver

It cannot have been an easy weekend for Judge Neil Gorsuch. At a time that ought to be one of the high points of his life, one wonders if the Colorado jurist tapped by President Trump to fill the...
Republicans Exhale With Trump’s Supreme Court Choice of Gorsuch

By Edward Morrissey

“Think of the Supreme Court,” the Republican Party repeatedly urged skeptics of Donald Trump during the general election in 2016. Conservatives who found themselves lost at sea in a cycle dominated...
Trump’s SCOTUS Nomination: One Way or the Other, This Ends Badly

By Rob Garver

No matter how it turns out, the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court will end with one of the two major parties claiming that they have been grossly mistreated, and insisting that...

After SCOTUS: The Hunt for Cheap Birth Control

By Marine Cole

As the Supreme Court ruled Monday that some corporations have the right to be exempted from paying for specific types of contraceptives for their employees, the hunt for cheap birth control methods...
Campaign Mud-Slinging Could Cost Publishers a Hefty Law Suit

By Joseph H. Cooper

Mud-slinging is free speech – some “mud” will stick, and some “mud” can be expensive to remove. This Tuesday, the U. S. Supreme Court will entertain oral arguments from petitioners who, in effect,...
Supreme Court Can Transform TV Industry in Aereo Case

By Steve Kovach, Business Insider

It's one of the most common complaints with TV today: Why are we paying so much per month for a bunch of stuff we never watch? The dream, of course, is to only pay for the shows you want to watch...
High Court Ruling: How to Win Pols and Influence Voters

By Eric Pianin

For a while, it seemed there was no limit to what Republican and Democratic millionaires and billionaires could spend this year to influence the outcome of congressional races, but that was before...
High Court Gives Wealthy Donors More Freedom in Campaign Contributions

By Lawrence Hurley, Reuters

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a key pillar of campaign finance law by allowing wealthy donors to give money to as many political candidates, parties and committees as they wish. On...

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