Joan Biskupic

3 days ago | es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Joan Biskupic

La Corte Suprema, que esta semana escuchará un caso sobre la ciudadanía por nacimiento, ha estado actuando menos como un grupo que busca el consenso y más como nueve jueces aferrados a sus propios intereses. Se han producido rupturas en litigios derivados del intento del presidente Donald Trump de transformar el gobierno federal y rehacer Estados Unidos.

3 days ago | channel3000.com | Joan Biskupic

(CNN) — The Supreme Court that will hear a case over birthright citizenship this week has been acting less like a group seeking consensus and more like nine justices clinging to their own interests. Ruptures have occurred in litigation arising from President Donald Trump’s effort to transform the federal government and remake America. But more broadly, the fractured court has been evident in the justices’ separate opinions, behavior on the bench, and public appearances.

4 days ago | local3news.com | Joan Biskupic

Washington (CNN) — Justice David Souter, touted as a steadfast conservative for the Supreme Court in 1990, soon revealed himself as the opposite. He valued constitutional privacy, individual equality and the separation of church and state. And in 1992, when the justices confronted a major test of abortion rights, he unflinchingly cast a vote to affirm Roe v. Wade. From the elevated courtroom bench that June 29, 1992, morning, as Souter read his portion of the opinion in Planned Parenthood v.

2 weeks ago | channel3000.com | Joan Biskupic

(CNN) — Over his 20 years on the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts has demonstrated an ability to slowly build the scaffolding, case by case, for a major development in the law. At the same time, he is also known for famously decrying “jolts” to the legal system. Roberts wrote the three cases that proponents of an Oklahoma religious public charter school relied on Wednesday in a major dispute over the First Amendment’s protections for religion.

3 weeks ago | local3news.com | Joan Biskupic

(CNN) — Alliances among the nine Supreme Court justices can shift back and forth, as in recent cases over President Donald Trump’s mass deportation of migrants. But religion is different. The fundamental irreconcilable conflict on today’s Supreme Court was laid bare during an intense courtroom drama Tuesday over books on gender and sexuality in elementary schools.