Answer: It’s ambiguous. Sometimes the Supreme Court goes one way, sometimes the other way. Its justices often “comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted,” writes Ian Millhiser, a think-tank scholar. Which isn’t surprising, considering that until recently all of the Co[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’
June 20th, 2015 - 9:19 am § in Politics
Why Obamacare will win again in the Supreme Court
When the Supreme Court issues its much-awaited King v. Burwell decision this month, possibly as soon as Monday, conservatives hoping to kill off Obamacare will lose again because Chief Justice Roberts, who holds the swing vote, is staunchly pro-business, and huge business interests are at stake in t[...]
April 20th, 2015 - 12:46 pm § in Politics
How many Supreme Court Justices will the next President appoint?
Photos: Scalia and Ginsburg almost certainly will leave the court during the next president’s term if not sooner. Ages of Supreme Court Justices: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 82 Antonin Scalia, 79 Anthony Kennedy, 78 Stephen [...]
The U.S. Constitution treats belief and behavior differently
A Richland, Washington, florist is digging in for a legal fight she’s likely to lose. Meanwhile Seattle’s new police chief has imposed restrictions on what the department’s employees can post on social media, and the usually combative leader of the police union is counseling his [...]
February 9th, 2015 - 9:01 pm § in Misc.
Clarence Thomas has hissy fit over Alabama gay marriage order
Clarence Thomas wants SCOTUS to let states keep banning same-sex marriage the court decides the issue. The court isn’t going along with that, and today refused such a request from Alabama, the latest of such orders against states that have tried to ban gay marriages. It was too much for poor C[...]
February 4th, 2015 - 10:04 pm § in Misc.
The Supreme Court responds to the vaccination controversy …
… over a hundred years ago: “The defendant insists that his liberty is invaded when the state subjects him to fine or imprisonment for neglecting or refusing to submit to vaccination; that a compulsory vaccination law is unreasonable, arbitrary, and oppressive, and, therefore, hostile to[...]
January 25th, 2015 - 2:34 pm § in Politics
SCOTUS scuttling of Obamacare would hurt Romney supporters
“The kind of people who were more likely to vote for Mitt Romney … in the 2012 election [are] … the same kind of people who would be most likely to lose their Obamacare health insurance if a looming Supreme Court case goes against the president, according to a new analysis. “[...]
December 14th, 2014 - 5:34 pm § in Misc.
Scalia is only the latest conservative to assert that torture is OK
Now that it’s been definitively established the Bush regime tortured terrorism suspects, conservatives are rallying around a theme that goes roughly like this: Torture is, at worst, morally ambiguous; and using it is sometimes okay to prevent greater harm. It sounds like a talking point manufa[...]