A 5-4 majority upheld longstanding practices of allowing ballots postmarked on election day to be counted. But exaggerated fears of “voter fraud” loomed over the ruling and dissent.
Amy Coney Barrett
Posted inLaw and Justice
Chiles v. Salazar: A New Frontier of Speech
In its 8–1 ruling on Colorado’s conversion therapy ban, the Supreme Court recast mental health care as protected expression.
Posted inPolitics
The Birthright Citizenship Arguments Are a Reminder that the Independent Judiciary Is a Good Thing
If Democrats made the mistake of packing the Supreme Court, birthright citizenship would be no more, along with free elections.
Posted inMagazine
Justice Barrett’s Campaign Biography
By presenting judging as pure law untainted by politics, Amy Coney Barrett offers a picture so implausible it makes cynics of us all.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Gay Conversion Therapy Case and Its Discontents
If the oral arguments earlier this month offer any indication, the Supreme Court will uphold the banned practice—and then some.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Federal Judges Are Worried About the Supreme Court
A confidential survey revealed their concerns about the Supreme Court’s promiscuous use of the shadow docket
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Roberts Court at 20
John Roberts, the “institutionalist” chief justice, has given the president kingly powers, overturned a Reagan-era regulation doctrine, and issued two decades of wrecking ball opinions. It’s only going to get worse.
Posted inLaw and Justice
In NIH Funding Case, the Supreme Court Makes Up the Rules as It Goes Along
Chief Justice Roberts joined the liberals in a shadow docket ruling that was muddled even by the justices’ feckless standards.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Supreme Court Fallout: The Birthright Citizenship Case and Autocracy
By taking this case, the Supreme Court supermajority is once more abrogating fundamental rights.
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Amy Coney Barrett and the Supreme Court Give Birth to a Disaster
Her majority opinion allows Trump’s unconstitutional revocation of birthright citizenship to proceed for now and sends the courts and the country into chaos.
