WASHINGTON, DC — May 6, 2021 — The Supreme Court won’t weigh in on whether a West Point cadet who was sexually assaulted by a fellow classmate can sue the federal government. The justices announced on Monday morning that they will not hear oral argument in Doe v. United States, one of the cases that they considered at their private …
AMY HOWE
Justices Will Decide Whether to Reinstate Death Penalty for Boston Marathon Bomber
WASHINGTON, DC — March 24, 2021 — Nearly eight years after two homemade bombs detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds of others, the Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would review the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was sentenced to death for his role in the 2013 bombings. The U.S. …
Argument Analysis: Justices Divided in Procedural Battle Between Baltimore , Oil Companies in Climate Fight
Argument analysis: Justices divided in procedural battle between Baltimore, oil companies in climate fight Kannon Shanmugam argues for BP and other fossil fuel companies (Art Lien) In a speech at Harvard Law School in 2015, Justice Elena Kagan told the audience that “we’re all textualists now” – that is, that any effort to interpret a statute begins (and often ends) …
The Supreme Court and the President’s Pardon Power
By AMY HOWE
Correction appended. WASHINGTON, D.C. — January 16, 2021 — It was on January 1, 2021 that the was first written. The Constitution gives the president the power “to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of impeachment.” In the days before Christmas, President Donald Trump used this power to pardon or commute the sentences …
By AMY HOWE