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The writ is usually issued to a state supreme court (including high courts of the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa), but is occasionally issued to a state's intermediate appellate court for cases where the state supreme court denied certiorari or review and ...
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday introduced a bill designed to undo a ruling last month by the U.S. Supreme Court that curtailed the ability of federal agencies to ...
Sen. Chuck Schumer wants big reforms for the Supreme Court, including ethics rules and undoing rulings on abortion and presidential immunity, if Democrats win the 2024 elections.
Kamala Harris has not dismissed the idea of Supreme Court reform, raising concerns that if Democrats win the Senate, they could pack the court with more justices, unless the filibuster remains intact.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law.
To further discern the justices' ideological leanings, researchers have carefully analyzed the judicial rulings of the Supreme Court—the votes and written opinions of the justices—as well as their upbringing, their political party affiliation, their speeches, their political contributions before appointment, editorials written about them at the time of their Senate confirmation, the ...
After the Supreme Court ruled against student loan forgiveness and affirmative action, Democrats should focus their attacks on abortion not issues unpopular with voters, writes David Mark.
In modern practice, Supreme Court nominations are first referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee before being considered by the full Senate. Since the late 1960s, the committee's examination of a Supreme Court nominee almost always has consisted of three parts: a pre-hearing investigation, followed by public hearings in which both the nominee ...