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Throughout its two years of existence, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has undergone substantial scrutiny and debate, but its fate lies in the hands of the nine Supreme Court...
It’s the third and final day for the Affordable Care Act at the Supreme Court, and the topics of severability and Medicaid expansion take center stage....
Over a month ago, the Senate leadership struck a bipartisan deal pledging to vote on a package of 14 judicial nominees, thereby momentarily addressing the pervasive obstructionism to judicial...
Evan James Miller was raised in Alabama by a father who abused him from an early age, causing Evan to attempt suicide at least six times. In and out of foster care, Evan became addicted to drugs...
Anniversaries are often occasions to celebrate, and this week marked the one year anniversary of President Obama's nomination of Dawn Johnsen to head the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department...
The biggest news coming out of the courts this week was the start of the federal trial on California's Proposition 8. As you will recall, in May of 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled that the...
Today marks the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade. As Friday at the RACBlog is our "Focus on the Courts" day, it is only appropriate that we use this...
Yesterday, in one of the most far-reaching and activist Supreme Court decisions in years, five Justices unraveled campaign finance law, giving corporations and unions more power to influence elect...
The blogosphere was set ablaze in the wake of the State of the Union address on Wednesday evening in which President Obama rebuked the Supreme Court's recent decision in Citizens United v. Federal...
Former Supreme Court Justice O'Connor has made headlines in the past week in the wake of the Citizens United campaign finance case. Her comments are notable both because the recent ruling...
An intense and record-breaking snow storm descended on D.C. this week, halting most official business throughout the city--including within our courts. Court dates and trials were postponed...
Last week, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that "the biggest open secret" in the federal case currently being argued in California challenging Proposition 8 is that the judge who is hearing...
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Lewis v. Chicago, a case considering the statute of limitations to sue an employer for using a hiring test with a disparate impact. This case b...
In October, the RACblog's "Focus on the Court" series highlighted the Supreme Court's grant of the cert petition in Kiyemba v. Obama. As you will remember, this case involved 13 men from the Musli...
People began lining up in front of the United States Supreme Court building 36 hours in advance of Tuesday's oral arguments in McDonald v. Chicago, a case challenging Chicago's longstanding ban on...
Six Catholics, two Jews, and one Protestant serve on the United States Supreme Court. Justice John Paul Stevens, the lone Protestant, who turns 90-years-old on April 20th, is expected to retire in...
It is rare for a Supreme Court Justice to grant a reporter an exclusive interview. In fact, it is rare for a Justice to make any press statements at all. But, Jeffrey Toobin clearly has the ...
As you are contemplating the characteristics and qualities that make a good Justice (and tweeting them with the hashtag #AGoodNom or leaving them as comments on the blog post from earlier this week...
This week, the Union for Reform Judaism signed onto an amicus brief for the upcoming Supreme Court case, Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. This case began when the University of California-Hast...
Students in our nation's public schools have a long history of leading the efforts to identify, expand, and secure fundamental rights and liberties. In the latest chapter of this glorious traditio...
This morning, Justice John Paul Stevens announced that he will be retiring from the Supreme Court at the end of the current term. He sent a simple letter, with today's date, to President Obama:
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I'm a little behind in my reading, so I just caught the piece in the May 17 NY Times Magazine about the implicit message sent by the fact that the two most recent Supreme Court nominees are both f...
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