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Justice Samuel Alito said the Supreme Court ignored Congress's intention in its ruling on retroactive relief under the First ...
An attorney told Newsweek the decision will not lead to future similar "slippery slopes." Opponents say it could unravel the ...
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Samuel Alito Takes Pride in Gay-Bashing
With his majority opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor, Alito gave bigoted parents a big, fat kiss—and changed the nature of public ...
The justices who signed on to this decision should be ashamed of themselves, and some of them should know better.
Justice Samuel Alito said the Supreme Court's ruling requires judges to engage in "mind-bending exercises" in a dissent.
Even in the desensitized landscape of death-penalty cases, the justice’s opinion in Gutierrez manages to stun.
Here are some takeaways from the Supreme Court’s term: That’s where the court deals with cases that are still in their early ...
Attempts to teach my children anything about Donald Trump place an unconstitutional burden on my First Amendment right to ...
The case involved a school district in Virginia, where right-wing parents were abusing the “opt-out” system meant to allow ...
A group of Maryland parents who sued a school board over its refusal to allow elementary school children to be taken out of ...
Under the First Step Act, certain first-time offenders became eligible for leniency in pending cases. But what should happen ...
Before its summer recess begins at the end of June or in early July, the Supreme Court has 10 cases left to decide, on topics ...