By David Leopold, America’s Voice Washington, DC: The following is an assessment previewing the Supreme Court and 2023: Today, [January 9] the United States Supreme Court will hold its first arguments of 2023. Over their break, the Court again showed it is a willing accomplice to Republican politicians when it stayed the implementation of Title […]
By Rebekah Wolf, Immigration Impact In a blow to the Department of Homeland Security’s attempts to set priorities for immigration enforcement, late last week the Supreme Court of the United States decided 5-4 to deny a request from the Department of Justice to restore the priorities while litigation continues. This decision comes after a confusing several months, […]
NEW YORK CITY – JUNE 28 2015: The 45th annual LGBT Pride parade drew an estimated two million spectators buoyed by the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling on same sex marriage. Planned Parenthood. (Shutterstock) By Lisa Mascaro, AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is set to vote to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, a direct confrontation […]
Matias Romero, Oaxaca/Mexico – Nov. 10, 2018: Salvadorans fleeing poverty and gang violence in the third caravan to the U.S. line up to receive medical aid from volunteer nurses. (Shutterstock) By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Immigration Impact Almost a year after the Supreme Court allowed a federal judge in Texas to order the Biden administration to restart […]
Chicago, Il USA – 06 24 2022: Large crowds protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade (Shutterstock) By America’s Voice One of the many lessons of the Supreme Court decision to overturn federal legal protection for abortion is that elections have consequences. When we decide not to vote because our candidate didn’t win the nomination—or […]
US Supreme Court Nominee hearing Sonia Sotomayor July 13, 2009 in Washington, DC (Shutterstock) By Mackenzie Long, Teen Vogue The Supreme Court has always been shrouded in mystery and essentially free from accountability. That’s largely by design. Oral arguments, final decisions, and written orders are the only aspects of justices’ work that are regularly made […]
Washington DC., USA, September 10, 1991 – Clarence Thomas, nominee for Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ponders questions to him from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Shutterstock) By Joan Biskupic, CNN There was a little seen warm moment between Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas last November 1, just […]