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The Roberts Court has issued major rulings on incorporation of the Bill of Rights, gun control, affirmative action, campaign finance regulation, election law, abortion, capital punishment, LGBT rights, unlawful search and seizure, and criminal sentencing. Major decisions of the Roberts Court include: [10] [11] Massachusetts v.
Officials “from across the political spectrum have raised the specter of open disregard for federal court rulings,” Roberts wrote in the report, released by the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court’s toughest cases during Chief Justice John Roberts’ tenure have often generated internal suspense, with shifting votes, last-minute switches and the chief’s own push toward ...
"Our political system and economic strength depend on the rule of law," Roberts wrote. A landmark Supreme Court immunity decision penned by Roberts, along with another high court decision halting ...
Summary Gonzales v. Oregon: 546 U.S. 243 (2006) Attorney General did not permissibly construe Controlled Substances Act to prohibit the distribution of drugs for physician-assisted suicide: Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England: 546 U.S. 320 (2006) Invalidating statute and lower courts rendering narrower declaratory and ...
"The switch" came in the case West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, when the Court announced its opinion in March 1937. [2] Roberts switched sides and joined Chief Justice Hughes, and Justices Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, and Harlan F. Stone in upholding a Washington law that set the minimum wage. The decision was handed down less than two ...
The Roberts Court is proving, once again, that it is one of the worst Supreme Courts in history. Accepting the case of Donald Trump's c laim of unqualified immunity is a disgrace and threat to ...
Soon after John Roberts took his seat at the center of the Supreme Court bench on Thursday, the cadence of the justices’ questioning suggested the chief justice would have an easy majority, if ...