The High Court is hearing another high-stakes immigration case. Can people be forced to assist in their own deportation?
The case could result in further limits on the immigration minister’s powers to keep refugees in detention indefinitely.
The case could result in further limits on the immigration minister’s powers to keep refugees in detention indefinitely.
The Supreme Court doesn’t have to be so polarized. Many European countries make judicial appointments in a term-limited, intentionally depoliticized way to promote consensus and compromise.
In the 1860’s, the Supreme Court was a ‘partisan creature’ and President Lincoln and the Republican Party remade it so that it reflected the party’s priorities.
History shows that political contests over the ideological slant of the court are nothing new.
A Supreme Court scholar explains the significance of the recent Supreme Court leaked draft opinion.
What counts as fast for a court is slow for the rest of the world, and judges can give contradictory or vague rulings that delay final decisions into the future.
Israel’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has fired the country’s defense minister. That deepened the country’s crisis over proposed judicial reforms that even military reservists have protested.
The court ruled unanimously that access to social media is an essential right.
GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have pushed Gorsuch’s nomination onto the full Senate. Both the Republicans and Democrats are getting ready for a fight.
While it’s a victory for the families of the victims, the settlement leaves a key legal question about the gun industry’s liability shield unanswered.