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A Bureaucrat On Every Boat?

January 19, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Nate Jackson ~ The Supreme Court considers a case that’s relevant to almost literally everything Americans do. America is full of fishermen who know what time to go and where, how to bait a hook, how to reel in the catch, and how to clean a fish. Fathers pass on the tradition to sons […]

Politico Nudges Chief Justice Roberts To Anti-Trump ‘Middle Ground’ To Boost Court

December 24, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By P.J. Gladnick ~ The amazing thing about Politico’s story on Thursday by global editor-in-chief John F. Harris and senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein about a couple of Trump cases heading to the Supreme court is the lack of detailed discussions of the legal aspects involved in “John Roberts, Donald Trump and the ghosts […]

Sandra Day O’Connor Shattered Glass Ceilings. And She Inspired Lawyers Like Me.

December 4, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Sarah Parshall Perry ~ For me, and for generations of female lawyers like me, Sandra Day O’Connor inspired our entrance into the legal field. The service of O’Connor, the first female justice ever to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, made possible the subsequent appointment of the five female Supreme Court justices to serve […]

Over 100 Former Clarence Thomas Law Clerks Defend His ‘Unimpeachable’ Integrity In Open Letter

August 30, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Jarrett Stepman ~ Over 100 former law clerks of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas have written an open letter defending him from accusations of ethics violations. In the letter, the clerks wrote that Thomas’ integrity is “unimpeachable” and that he’s never wavered from his independence on the court. The letter recounted Thomas’ life story of being descended from African slaves, raised […]

GOP Senators Rip Democrats’ Bill They Say Would ‘Destroy’ Supreme Court

July 20, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Jarrett Stepman ~ A bill from Senate Democrats to be marked up in committee Thursday would destroy the independence of the Supreme Court, a group of Republican senators said at a Wednesday press conference. Six GOP lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee spoke about how the Supreme Court “ethics” bill drawn up by Democrats on […]

How Democrats And Their Media Allies Cooked Up A Phony Supreme Court ‘Legitimacy Crisis’

July 18, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Jarrett Stepman ~ The legacy media has signaled that it’s all in on the Left’s cooked-up Supreme Court “legitimacy crisis.” This week, Senate Democrats plan to vote on Supreme Court ethics rules that are clearly meant to give them the ability to hector and harass the court to get the decisions they want. The vote […]

NYT SCOTUS Scribe Weeps Over Dobbs: Are Justices Sorry For ‘Chaos And Misery’?

June 30, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Clay Waters ~ Linda Greenhouse was the New York Times’ liberally slanted Supreme Court reporter for 30 years until 2008, and now writes occasional opinion pieces on her lifelong obsession of abortion. She even participated in an abortion rally in 1989 while a journalist covering the Supreme Court, in defiance of journalistic standards of […]

Glimpsing Google’s Fate? SCOTUS Weighs In On Big Tech Liability Shield

February 24, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Autumn Johnson ~ We now know a bit about where some of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are leaning in one family’s landmark case against Google. Google is being sued by the family of a woman killed in 2015 during an ISIS-led terrorist attack in Paris. The family has […]

ENTER SCOTUS: High Court Agrees To Hear Case Threatening Big Tech’s Section 230 Protections

October 4, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Joseph Vazquez ~ The leftist Big Tech overlords may finally face a day of reckoning as the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the Section 230 law that governs how tech platforms moderate free speech. SCOTUSblog tweeted Oct. 3 that SCOTUS granted a writ of certiorari to Gonzalez v. Google, “involving […]

NY Times Hates Court’s EPA Ruling: Can USA Be A ‘Civilized Society’ Without Regulations?

July 3, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Clay Waters ~ The front of Friday’s New York Times featured dismayed coverage of another conservative-pleasing ruling from the Supreme Court, this one reining in the Environmental Protection Agency. First up, legal reporter Charlie Savage’s “E.P.A. Ruling Is Milestone in Long Pushback to Regulation of Business.” The Supreme Court ruling in the Environmental Protection Agency case on […]

Supreme Court Unwisely Lets Biden End Program Making Illegal Aliens Remain In Mexico

July 2, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Lora Ries and Hans von Spakovsky ~ As the U.S. southern border is being overrun with record numbers of illegal aliens month after month, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday approved the Biden administration’s termination of the successful Remain in Mexico program in a 5-4 decision by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by […]

Thomas Fires Warning Shot At Media, Organizations That Lie About Conservatives

June 29, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Hans von Spakovsky ~ President Joe Biden and his liberal compatriots in politics, the media, and social media constantly are crowing about “misinformation.” Although the type of censorship they seem to support is not the answer, reconsideration of the legal standard governing defamation, as Justice Clarence Thomas has urged, might be. The Supreme Court […]

Horrors! NPR’s Nina Totenberg Warns High Court’s The Most Conservative In 75 Years

June 27, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ On Weekend Edition on Saturday morning, National Public Radio legal reporter Nina Totenberg warned NPR’s liberal base that the “very conservative” court is just getting started after the abortion decision, that next year will be another “rock-em-sock-em term.” They’re the most conservative in 75 years, and she (and others in public […]

Life Wins: In Overturning Roe Versus Wade, Supreme Court Issues Victory For Rule Of Law

June 25, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Sarah Parshall Perry and Thomas Jipping ~ Roe v. Wade—one of the most contentious Supreme Court decisions of the modern era—was sent to history’s dustheap on Friday. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion, stating: We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to […]

Supreme Court To New York: Second Amendment Means What It Says

June 24, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Amy Swearer ~ The Supreme Court on Thursday issued its first significant opinion in a Second Amendment case in well over a decade, striking down a New York state law that effectively denied ordinary residents the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense. This decision, in New York State Rifle and Pistol […]

The Left’s Short Path From The Politics Of Personal Destruction To Physical Destruction

June 11, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By GianCarlo Canaparo ~ In the still dark hours of Wednesday morning, a man armed with a gun, a knife, and burglary tools was arrested outside Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home. The man told police that he had come to kill Kavanaugh because of the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health […]

Democrats Push Radical Abortion Bill Far More Expansive Than Roe

May 10, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Thomas Jipping ~ The Senate on Wednesday is expected to vote on whether to end debate on S 4132, the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022. Even though a similar vote on the virtually identical HR 3755 failed on Feb. 28, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., quickly set up this repeat in the […]

Overturning Roe v. Wade Would Be Neither Radical Nor Conservative. It’s Just Right Thing To Do.

May 7, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Thomas Jipping ~ In a New York Times column published Tuesday, Bret Stephens argued that while Roe v. Wade was “ill-judged” when decided in 1973, overruling it today would be “a radical, not conservative, choice.” His premises and conclusion are both wrong. In a 2005 interview, then-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stated, “I do […]

Adoption Provides Actual ‘Choice’ In Abortion Debate, Advocate Says

May 6, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Virginia Allen ~ If you visited the Supreme Court in the days following the leak Monday night of a draft majority opinion in the abortion case known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, you would have seen many signs saying, “My body, my choice.” Choice means options, and it implies empowerment. But that […]

Here’s What To Watch Following Dobbs Draft Leak

May 5, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Melanie Israel ~ Politico leaked a draft version of a Supreme Court decision for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization late on May 2. It would uphold a Mississippi law protecting unborn children when they can feel pain—15 weeks of pregnancy—and overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Dated Feb. 10, the […]

Could Supreme Court Leaker Be Criminally Prosecuted? Maybe

May 4, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Zack Smith and John G. Malcolm ~ Politico published a bombshell story late on May 2 that five Supreme Court justices had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. Shockingly, the story even contained a link to an authenticated full draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, which he apparently circulated to the other justices almost […]

Test For Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

April 8, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Thomas Jipping ~ The Senate voted 53-47 on Thursday to confirm President Joe Biden’s nomination of D.C. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Three Republican senators—Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Mitt Romney of Utah—joined all 48 Democratic senators and two independents in voting for Jackson. At […]

What We Know About Judge Jackson’s Record In Child Porn Sentences

April 2, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Thomas Jipping ~ Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sentencing pattern in child pornography cases was one of the big issues raised in last week’s multiday confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Clarity on this issue is needed before the committee, and then the full Senate, make their decision regarding Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme […]

Biden’s Bid To Transform Federal Judiciary In Full Swing

April 1, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Thomas Jipping ~ President Joe Biden took office in January 2021 with clear instructions about undoing his predecessor’s impact on the federal judiciary. Weeks earlier, more than 70 liberal groups issued a statement urging Biden to appoint judges who would advance “the administration’s priorities” on a range of issues. Their demand became Biden’s plan […]