Tag: Justices
Supreme Court Announces Ethics Code for Justices
The decision comes after revelations about undisclosed property deals and gifts have intensified pressure on the court to adopt such a code.
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Minnesota Justices Rebuff Attempt to Bar Trump From Ballot Under 14th Amendment
The Minnesota Supreme Court rejected a request from a group of voters to declare former President Donald J. Trump ineligible to hold office on the bas [...]
Justices Reject, for Now, Missouri’s Effort to Override Federal Gun Laws
The move blocked an expansive state law, the Second Amendment Preservation Act, and let stand a ruling that it was an unconstitutional attempt to null [...]
Justices Split on South Carolina Voting Map Said to Be Racial Gerrymander
Members of the Supreme Court struggled to disentangle race and politics in the voting districts drawn by state lawmakers.
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On First Day of New Term, Justices Hear Debate Over Reducing Mass Incarceration
The justices heard arguments about how to interpret part of the law aimed at reducing prison sentences for people convicted of certain nonviolent drug [...]
Black Supreme Court Justices Spar Over Affirmative Action Decision
In an extraordinary exchange that played out among the pages of a landmark decision by the Supreme Court declaring race-conscious admissions at colleg [...]
Justices Thomas and Alito Delay Release of Financial Disclosures
Justice Clarence Thomas delayed releasing his annual financial disclosure form with the justices on Wednesday after recent revelations cast scrutiny o [...]
Prominent Retired Judge Calls for Ethics Rules for Supreme Court Justices
WASHINGTON — A prominent conservative former federal judge joined a chorus of legal experts from across the political spectrum on Tuesday in calling o [...]
Justices Must Disclose Travel and Gifts Under New Rules
The change comes as members of Congress have called for the justices to be held to ethics standards similar to those for the executive and legislative [...]
Supreme Court says justices ‘actively cooperated’ in leak probe
“During the course of the investigation, I spoke with each of the Justices, several on multiple occasions. The Justices actively cooperated in [...]
Supreme Court Justices Were Interviewed in Investigation of Leaked Abortion Opinion
The clarification by the court’s marshal, who oversaw the investigation, followed widespread speculation about the scope of the interviews.
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A Charity Tied to the Supreme Court Offers Donors Access to the Justices
The Supreme Court Historical Society has raised more than $23 million in the last two decades, much of it from lawyers, corporations and special inter [...]
Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor and Kagan need to think about retiring
We have now lived with the consequences of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s late-life arrogance for more than two years.
In 2014, President Barack Obama was i [...]
Several Kentucky supreme court justices sound skeptical of near-total abortion ban
Several Kentucky supreme court justices on Tuesday sounded skeptical of the state's abortion ban, one of the most restrictive in the U.S., during oral [...]
Alito Says Leak of Ruling Overturning Roe Put Justices’ Lives at Risk
The leak of a draft opinion, he said, “gave people a rational reason to think” the eventual decision could be prevented “by killing one of us.”
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