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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 […]

EPA Now Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place On CO2

July 6, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ There are lots of happy reports on the Supreme Court’s ruling throwing out EPA’s so-called Clean Power Plan. Some go so far as to suggest that EPA is barred from regulating power plant CO2 emissions. It is not quite that simple and the result is rather amusing. EPA is still […]

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 Decides Half Of Oklahoma Has Been An Indian Reservation For Past 113 Years

July 11, 2020 by PA Pundits - International

By Zack Smith ~ The Supreme Court issued one of the most consequential decisions of its term on its last day Thursday. No, it wasn’t either of the decisions about President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Instead, it involved a case that received little attention at the time it was argued. But how often can court watchers […]

Supreme Court Ruling On Illegal Immigration A Victory For Trump

June 28, 2020 by PA Pundits - International

By Hans von Spakovsky and Cully Stimson ~ In a victory for border security that will help the federal government regain control over the immigration process, the Supreme Court has upheld commonsense rules used by the Trump administration to effectively deter illegal immigrants from making false asylum claims. The 7-2 ruling by the high court Thursday allows the […]

Disingenuous Wires: Court’s 7-2 Gay Wedding Cake Ruling Is ‘Narrow’?

June 5, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Tom Blumer ~ Both the Associated Press and Reuters have described today’s 7-2 Supreme Court ruling in Masterpiece Cake Shop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission as “narrowly” decided and “limited.” The justification for this characterization is thin, and AP has erroneously contended that “the big issue in the case, whether a business can refuse to […]

The Supreme Court Quietly Gives Religious Liberty A Big Win

January 17, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Monica Burke ~ Religious liberty and freedom of conscience won big at the Supreme Court last week, just in time for Religious Freedom Day on Jan. 16. The justices declined last week to hear a legal challenge against a Mississippi law that protects citizens, small businesses, government employees, and charities from official discrimination by […]

Blogger: Supreme Court Has Repeatedly ‘Overcome The Deplorable And Inexcusable Wrongness’ Of Conservatives

April 11, 2016 by PA Pundits - International

By Tom Johnson ~ If judicial review means that the U.S. Supreme Court is a de facto super-legislature that can in effect supersede actual legislatures, that’s fine with Washington Monthly blogger Martin Longman. In a Wednesday post, Longman acknowledged that certain SCOTUS rulings over the past several decades have been politically motivated, but argued that […]

Will Tie Votes On The Supreme Court Be A Problem? These 2 Justices Don’t Think So.

February 29, 2016 by PA Pundits - International

By Philip Wegmann ~ For more than a century, the Supreme Court’s bench has had nine spots, enough to round out the roster of a baseball team. With the death of Antonin Scalia, eight justices remain. Now President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats are pushing Republicans to OK an Obama recruit to replace Scalia. But Republicans say the […]

Let’s Drop The Charade: The Supreme Court Is A Political Branch, Not A Judicial One

June 30, 2015 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew C McCarthy ~ ‘But this Court is not a legislature.” Chief Justice John Roberts actually published that sentence in his same-sex marriage dissent on Friday . . . a mere 24 hours after his maestro’s performance in the Supreme Court’s legislative rewrite of the Affordable Care Act – formerly known as “Obamacare,” but now etched in memory […]