State laws require officials to certify results, and safeguards are in place should someone fail to fulfill that obligation.
The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.
On the final episode of Contempt of Court, Elie Mystal is joined by legal experts Nikolas Bowie and Rhiannon Hamam to understand how we might strip the court of its presumed legitimacy.
Ideological differences threaten to muddy the definition of death in the United States — with potentially negative consequences for clinicians and people awaiting organ transplants.
Thousands of cases involving enslaved people that lawyers and judges continue to cite as good precedent, more than a century after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
And that means the Court, by deciding this case, exercises authority it does not have. It violates the Constitution. . . . [T]he majority overrides the combined judgment of the Legislative and Executive Branches. . . . I respectfully dissent . . .
Remember: The US Treasury is obligated to make payments. The rest is optics.
The bill fixes many problems, but doesn’t really safeguard Americans’ right to vote.
It’s never a good look when Americans must rely on Russian hackers to see who’s influencing our Supreme Court.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed four bills into law Thursday that implement some criminal justice reforms, notably one with the goal of preventing false confessions.
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