#SupremeCourt
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No More No-Knock: Simple Reforms That Can Save Lives
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Imagine you’re comfortably dozing in bed at your partner’s home in the early hours of the morning. Suddenly, around 6 am, you jerk awake as the sound of loud voices permeates the room and you open your eyes in the semi-darkness to see two police officers with guns drawn and…
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Public Perception May Curb Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket
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Mike Bedell is a student in the University of Chicago’s Evening Master’s Program. Just before midnight on September 1, 2021, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an unsigned order declining to block S.B. 8, the Texas law that bans almost all abortions in the state. The order…
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Abortion Rights Are On the Supreme Court Docket
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During his campaign for President, Donald Trump famously vowed to appoint Supreme Court justices to overturn Roe v. Wade. However, at the end of his term, it remained the law of the land. This could soon change. While the Supreme Court upheld abortion rights in a 5-4 decision in Louisiana’s…
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Democrats Can Do More Than Pack the Court
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Democrats are reconsidering their relationship with the Supreme Court. In the wake of the failed Merrick Garland nomination in 2016—and amid a rushed effort to confirm conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett—some in the party are discussing familiar ideas to prevent a 6-3 conservative majority. Judicial term limits and partisan balancing…
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Political Donations Indicate That Federal Court Clerks Skew Left
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Republicans refused to hold hearings on President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, and now Democrats are threatening to do the same for President Trump’s nominee, Neil Gorsuch. This gridlock is just one example of how all three branches of the U.S. federal government have become politicized. But…