Alabama on Thursday executed an inmate convicted of murdering a driver that gave him a ride in 1996. The Supreme Court sided with the state and rejected claims that his intellectual disability misled him to accept death by means of lethal injection rather than a new, alternative method recently legalized by the state. The execution … Read more
With Wednesday’s news that Judge Stephen Breyer will retire from the Supreme Court At the end of their current term, Democrats have avoided their worst-case scenario for the nation’s highest court: that Republicans would take control of the Senate before Breyer retires, allowing Senator Mitch McConnell to keep Breyer’s seat open to eventually replace the … Read more
In this installation of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses how the Supreme Court may change once Justice Stephen Breyer — a more moderate justice among the liberal minority — retires. They also consider whether the ensuing confirmation process will impact the country’s broader political environment in a midterm election year.
On Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced that he will retire from the court at the end of this year’s term, setting up Democrats to nominate and confirm his successor later this year — in other words, in the months leading up to the 2022 election. Breyer’s retirement was widely expected, given his age … Read more
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When former President Donald Trump’s third nominee for the Supreme Court was confirmed in 2020, it cemented the most conservative majority on the court since the 1930s, it wasn’t clear which conservative goals the judges would tackle first. Culture war issues such as abortion, gun rights, affirmative action and religious freedom were obvious possibilities, but … Read more
On January 7, 2022, the day judges heard arguments against Covid-19 vaccination rules from President Joe Biden, people poured salt on the front seat of the US Supreme Court building. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images) Subscribe to something The nation Subscribe now for just $ 2 per month! Thank you for signing up The nation‘s … Read more
This was not a quiet term for the Supreme Court, to say the least. But just before Christmas the judges added another series of high profile cases on their file: two cases involving the legality of President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Oral disputes in cases involving mandatory vaccination for some health care workers and mandatory … Read more
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