Category: Supreme Court

By Dave Andrusko The Supreme Court, in a one-paragraph opinion, struck down a ruling from a lower court that allowed a Missouri state clerk to be sued for telling a pregnant teenager she must notify her parents before seeking to obtain an abortion without their consent. Justice Jackson filed a brief dissent. The lawsuit was …

By Dave Andrusko Yesterday Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke by video feed to hundreds of law professors at the Association of American Law Schools’ annual meeting in San Diego, according to Reuters’ Karen Sloan. The headline to her story read “Sotomayor felt ‘shell-shocked’ after U.S. Supreme Court’s abortion decision.” The lead paragraphs double-downed, …

By Roland C. Warren  The year was 1976. I was sitting in high school history class at the all-boys Catholic high school I attended in Toledo, Ohio. On most days, I may have been daydreaming about playing football. But the lesson on this particular day was the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision. I was all …

By Dave Andrusko Ed Whelan writes “This Day in Liberal Activism” pretty much every Monday through Friday at National Review Online. For August 3, he reminds us that elections do matter: 1993—By a vote of 96 to 3, the Senate confirms President Clinton’s nomination of D.C. Circuit judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court …

By Scott Whitlock  Last Friday, a radical pro-abortion group offered a location bounty on the whereabouts of conservative Supreme Court Justices. Yet despite the fire bombings and threats against pro-life organizations, the networks have so far ignored it. Instead, all weekend, they promoted pro-abortion rallies and an executive order from Joe Biden.  On Friday morning, Shutdown DC, …

By Dave Andrusko Another day has come and gone with no Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Women’s Health Care Organization. The next day the Supreme Court is scheduled to announce its decisions is Thursday. The Court will finish up any remaining cases next week. Everybody, including us, is speculating what the Justices will do. …

Senate unanimously voted in favor a month ago By Dave Andrusko Erik Rosales is the Capitol Hill Correspondent for EWTN. He posted the following tweet: Only On @EWTNNewsNightly @SpeakerPelosi was asked about the attacks by domestic terrorist group on #ProLife facilities taking place across the nation. The Speaker DID NOT denounce fire bombs or vandalism, …

By Dave Andrusko A new Mason-Dixon survey of 1,100 registered voters tells us two very significant things.  One, people do not like drafts of Supreme Court opinions being leaked to the press. Second, they don’t want us tinkering with the highest court in the land—“support for judicial tradition,” as James Freeman wrote in Monday’s Wall …

Why should close reading, historical insight and an abundance of footnotes delegitimate the Court? By Richard Stith    The leak of Justice Alito’s draft of the majority decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, unfortunate as it may be, should not delegitimate the US Supreme Court. If a snarky, plotting, election-related draft had been revealed, …

“Although the document described in yesterday’s reports is authentic, it does not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case.” Read the whole story.

WASHINGTON – In response to the Politico article claiming to have a copy of the initial draft of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, National Right to Life agrees with the statement of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch who said, “We will let the Supreme Court speak for itself and wait for the …