Making sense of the Supreme Court’s historic year Amanda Hollis-Brusky - December 26, 2022 The TMC 2022 roundups: U.S. Supreme Court
The new Supreme Court doctrine against religious discrimination Andrew Lewis - July 6, 2022 Conservative justices favor religious liberty over the separation of church and state.
Can Congress resurrect Roe if it’s overturned? Well, it could try. Amanda Hollis-Brusky - May 4, 2022 The Supreme Court might well strike that down, too.
Biden said he won’t make an ‘ideological’ Supreme Court pick. Republicans do exactly that. Amanda Hollis-Brusky - February 14, 2022 Liberals want to counter the influence of the Federalist Society. The Democratic Party may be their biggest obstacle.
Gorsuch is scheduled to speak to the right-wing Federalist Society. Americans find such speeches inappropriate. Nathan T. Carrington and Logan Strother - February 4, 2022 Americans don’t approve of justices appearing with politicians, our research finds.
The Supreme Court might overturn Roe. It took decades of scorched-earth conservative politics to get here. Joshua C. Wilson and Amanda Hollis-Brusky - December 2, 2021 Upholding Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban could severely damage American belief in the court’s legitimacy.
Conservative Republican women have led the fight to restrict abortion Rebecca J. Kreitzer, Emily U. Schilling, and Abigail A. Matthews - September 9, 2021 Democrats like to say Republicans are waging a ‘war on women.’ That erases the conservative Republican women who have been working to ban abortion.
Will Breyer retire while Democrats hold the White House and Senate? Here’s what political science tells us. Christine Nemacheck - April 21, 2021 Most federal judges retire for personal, rather than politically strategic, reasons. Supreme Court justices may be different.
How the Christian right helped get Amy Coney Barrett nominated to the Supreme Court Henry Farrell - October 15, 2020 A Q&A with the authors of the new book “Separate But Faithful: The Christian Right’s Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture.”
The Supreme Court just took aim at Congress’s ability to protect federal agencies from partisan politics Patrick Schmidt and Margaret Moran - July 1, 2020 The conservative legal community has been playing a long game aimed at overturning New Deal decisions.