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WEB3 days ago · By Amy Howe on Sept. 20 at 11:01 a.m. The court refused to intervene in the Green Party’s bid for a place on Nevada’s 2024 presidential ballot. The party had asked the justices to vacate a ruling by the Nevada Supreme Court which concluded that the party was barred from the ballot when it failed to properly file a required form.
The certiorari process: Seeking Supreme Court review
WEBThis election explainer was written by Amy Howe.It is part of SCOTUSblog’s 2020 Election Litigation Tracker, a joint project with Election Law at Ohio State.. When the losing side in a case decided by a federal court of appeals (or a state’s highest court) wants the Supreme Court to weigh in, it files a brief (known as a “petition for certiorari” or …
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission - SCOTUSblog
WEBSep 9, 2009 · SCOTUSblog Coverage. View from the Courtroom: Disruption from the gallery on fifth anniversary of Citizens United (Updated: 4:00 p.m.) (Mark Walsh, January 21, 2015); Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearing on proposed campaign finance amendment (Amy Howe, June 4, 2014); The Roberts Court and the First Amendment (Ronald Collins, July 9, 2013); SCOTUS for law students: A campaign finance face ...
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization - SCOTUSblog
WEBDec 1, 2021 · May 26 2021. Motion for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed. Jun 01 2021. Blanket Consent filed by Respondent, Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al. Jun 04 2021. Motion to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits granted. The time to file the joint appendix and petitioners' brief on the merits is extended ...
The Supreme Court and the president’s pardon power
WEBon Jan 1, 2021 at 3:38 pm. Correction appended. The Constitution gives the president the power “to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of impeachment.”. In the days before Christmas, President Donald Trump used this power to pardon or commute the sentences of over 40 people, including Paul ...
Supreme Court overturns constitutional right to abortion
WEBJun 24, 2022 · The Supreme Court on Friday eliminated the constitutional right to obtain an abortion, casting aside 49 years of precedent that began with Roe v. Wade. The decision by Justice Samuel Alito will set off a seismic shift in reproductive rights across the United States. It will allow states to ban abortion, and experts expect about half the states ...
Obergefell v. Hodges - SCOTUSblog
WEBApr 28, 2015 · Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for respondents Hodges, et al., in No. 14-556. VIDED. Feb 27 2015. Joint appendix for No. 14-556, 14-562 & 14-574 filed (2 volumes). VIDED. Feb 27 2015. Brief of petitioners James Obergefell, et al. filed.
In 6-3 ruling, court strikes down New York’s concealed-carry law
WEBJun 23, 2022 · The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York handgun-licensing law that required New Yorkers who want to carry a handgun in public to show a special need to defend themselves. The 6-3 ruling, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, is the court’s first significant decision on gun rights in over a …
High-speed pursuit liability and other questions ... - SCOTUSblog
WEBJul 23, 2021 · Burke. 21-10. Issues: (1) Whether a court should apply the intent-to-harm standard of liability to all police high-speed driving, as have the 8th and 9th Circuits, or instead employ an analysis which examines the facts of individual cases to decide whether there was an opportunity to deliberate and apply the standard of deliberate indifference ...
Biographies of the Justices - SCOTUSblog
WEBChief Justice John Glover Roberts Jr. was born on January 27, 1955. He graduated from Harvard College in 1976, and Harvard Law School, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review, in 1979. Roberts clerked for Judge Henry Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and for then-Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist.