O’Connor’s Trailblazing Career Marked By Grit, Charisma
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor solidified her legacy as the first female jurist to sit on the Supreme Court. One of her former clerks, Tamarra Matthews Johnson, joins Cases and Controversies to discuss h...
8 Joulu 202326min
Justices Suggest Narrow Ruling on SEC Enforcement
The Supreme Court appeared likely to require the Securities and Exchange Commission to bring certain enforcement actions in federal court, rather than resolve them in-house. The only question appeared...
1 Joulu 202315min
Supreme Court’s First Ethics Code Gets Cool Reception
The Supreme Court’s inaugural code of conduct, issued under pressure from transparency advocates and Congress, does little to quell concern over how the justices conduct themselves on ethics, critics ...
17 Marras 202318min
Justices Weigh New Gun Test in Domestic Violence Case
A lopsided Supreme Court appeared ready to side with the Biden administration in a Second Amendment challenge to a federal gun ban for those subject to domestic violence restraining orders. The real i...
9 Marras 202323min
Justices Seek Balance for Online Speech Protections
The justices searched for the proper line to balance free speech protections for public officials and their constituents online, in the first of several disputes involving social media this term. The ...
3 Marras 202323min
Barrett Rocks Out As Justices Return to Courtroom
Justice Amy Coney Barrett made news this week when she became the latest justice to back a high court ethics code, but her tale of rocking out to the turn-of-the-century hit "Who Let the Dogs Out" in ...
20 Loka 202319min
Justices Take Up South Carolina Redistricting Dispute
Fresh off last term’s win in an Alabama redistricting case, civil rights groups returned to the Supreme Court to argue that voting maps drawn by South Carolina Republicans disenfranchise Black voters ...
13 Loka 202320min
Barrett, Kavanaugh Could Be Key in CFPB Funding Fight
Whether funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unlawful or not could rest with conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, one court watcher says. Brennan Center for J...
6 Loka 202322min
