Also this term, abortion is back at the court, with one case involving access to the medication mifepristone, widely used to terminate pregnancies, and another focused on emergency abortion care at hospitals. A trio of cases challenge the power of federal agencies, long a target of conservatives concerned about what they consider unaccountable government bureaucrats.
Gun rights and state laws restricting social media companies from removing certain political posts or accounts are in the mix, as well…
- DECIDED
- Voting maps
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Employment discrimination
- Blocking critics on social media
- Donald Trump ballot eligibility
- UNDECIDED
- Prosecuting Trump for trying to block the 2020 election results
- Charging Jan. 6 rioters and Trump with obstruction
- Guns for suspected domestic abusers
- Bump stock ban
- Abortion medication restrictions
- Emergency room abortions
- Limits on social media posts
- White House asking social media companies to remove misinformation
- Power of federal agencies
- SEC tribunals
- Opioid lawsuit settlement
- Homeless encampments in public spaces
- Trump tax cuts
- Downwind industrial pollutio
Dahlia Lithwick: “Rather than hurling ourselves headlong into the ‘Alito Must Recuse’ brick wall of ‘yeah, no,’ we need to dedicate the upcoming election cycle, and the attendant election news cycle, to a discussion of what it means to have a Supreme Court that is functionally immune from political pressure, from internal norms of behavior, from judicial ethics and disclosure constraints, and from congressional oversight and why that is deeply dangerous.”
Joyce Vance: “Perhaps we will learn some feud with local aquatic life led Mrs. Alito to fly the flag. But sarcasm aside, when you’re a Supreme Court Justice, you’re supposed to avoid giving off even a whiff of partisan bias. Or religious favoritism. As a judge, and certainly, as a Supreme Court Justice, you have that duty. Justice Alito flunks the test and flunks it badly.”