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On April 6, 2017, when considering the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, in a party-line vote the Republican Senate majority invoked the so-called "nuclear option", voting to reinterpret Senate Rule XXII and change the cloture vote threshold for Supreme Court nominations to a simple majority of senators present and voting.
Supreme Court justices are set to decide a series of blockbuster cases before the current term concludes at the end of June. Learn more on how SCOTUS justices voted.
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Decisions that do not note a Justice delivering the Court's opinion are per curiam. Multiple concurrences and dissents within a case are numbered, with joining votes numbered accordingly. Justices frequently join multiple opinions in a single case; each vote is subdivided accordingly.
November 7: Joe Biden is declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election by a consensus of major news outlets projecting the results, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump. [1] December 18: The U.S. Supreme Court delivers its per curiam decision in Trump v.
The Supreme Court officially wrapped up its term this week with a flurry of rulings ahead of the high court’s summer recess. The Supreme Court's most surprising decisions this term, from voting ...
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...
Trump's team asked the Supreme Court to reject the expedited timeline and allow the appeals court to consider the case first. [29] [30] On December 22, the Supreme Court denied the special counsel's request, leaving the case to the appeals court. [31] On January 9, 2024, the D.C. Court of Appeals heard arguments in the immunity dispute.