…courts adhere. A key part of the conservative-movement’s federal-courts-have no-jurisdiction-to-hear-any-constitutional-claims-except-the-ones-that-conservatives-want-them-to-hear jurisprudence is that federal-court jurisdiction either exists or it doesn’t, and if it doesn’t it can’t be waived by the…

Update below. From a Salon interview with Catherine Ruckelshaus, general counsel and program director for the National Employment Law Project comes this case being argued today in the Supreme’s Court:…

…analyzed some 1,450 decisions since 1953. It showed that the percentage of business cases on the Supreme Court docket has grown in the Roberts years, as has the percentage of…

…review. But he maintains that the Court should wait for the appellate process to unfold below so that this Court has the benefit of the court of appeals’ decision. Br….

…have ever been to court, the power is with the court. You are little or mothing in that court room. Last Sunday, we discussed a number of cases pending in…

…penalty through the so-called individual mandate. The Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals from just one decision, from the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta,…

…that it conflates two separate legal doctrines: A longstanding Supreme Court-created legal doctrine called “qualified immunity” and a very new, and highly controversial, Supreme Court-created doctrine just known as “Twombly…

…Supreme Court opinions that brand-new Justice Scalias would reverse. In other words, her purpose was to educate the public about the whole panoply of things that Supreme Court appointments will…

…He participated in more than 100 Supreme Court cases and argued 12 of them. He has also argued about 35 times before federal appeals courts and state supreme courts. Verrilli…

…control supported by a court having known religious beliefs restricting a citizen’s actions in particular instances. ____________ Today, in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, the Supreme Court undermined the federal protection…