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...Here is an example of Washington’s penny-wise pound-foolishness: US federal officials fearful of ethics rules split any outside lunch bill, however small; a US Supreme Court justice, on the other hand, feels...
...Today’s newsletter covers: Abortion on the ballot Trump’s paper gains Biden’s concentrated spending This week the US Supreme Court heard its first abortion-related case since its decision to overturn...
...The US Supreme Court is criticised for playing such a central role in US politics....
...Clarence Thomas is 75, Samuel Alito is 74 and Chief Justice John Roberts is 69....
...(WSJ) Supreme Court justices seemed sceptical of Trump’s argument for expansive presidential immunity, though they did try to draw a line between personal and official acts....
...Joe Biden criticised justices of the US Supreme Court during the State of the Union, as he condemned its reversal of Roe vs Wade, the 1973 decision that had enshrined the constitutional right to an abortion...
...John Roberts pledged that his role as America’s chief justice would be to “call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat”. In practice the Roberts Supreme Court is both player and umpire....
...The Supreme Court’s decision in the case could fundamentally shift the balance of power in the US government....
...Amid the Supreme Court’s lurch to the right, chief justice John Roberts will probably aim to gather consensus in an effort to head off accusations of partisanship....
...Email us about something else: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...The US Supreme Court on Thursday expressed doubts about a decision by Colorado’s highest court excluding Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, in a high-stakes election case with consequences for...
...The case is a thorny challenge for Chief Justice John Roberts, who has sought to retain the court’s impartiality after dramatic decisions split down ideological lines raised new questions about whether the...
...Former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to sit on America’s most powerful bench, has died aged 93....
...(Intelligencer) The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the abortion pill today. Aaron Blake argues that the case will be fraught for the right. (Washington Post)...
...O’Connor “blazed a historic trail as our nation’s first female justice”, chief justice John Roberts said in a statement....
...Chief Justice John Roberts argued the government was likelier to bring a case “before one of its own agencies than in court”, which would deny a defendant the right to a jury trial....
...He secured two highly coveted judicial clerkships — the first with Alex Kozinski, from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then William Rehnquist, then chief justice of the US Supreme Court...
...Separate bids by Robert Kennedy Jr, or the scholar Cornel West, could also skew the electoral college in unpredictable ways....
...Robert F Kennedy Jr, 70, Joe Manchin, 76, Jill Stein, 73, Marianne Williamson, 71, and Cornel West, 70, are each thinking about entering the fray as independents in one form or other....
...Israel’s supreme court has dealt a blow to Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing coalition after it ordered state subsidies to be suspended for many ultraorthodox Jews who attend religious schools instead of doing...
...Chief Justice John Roberts wants the US Supreme Court to be conservative but not crazy....
...McConnell’s most egregious act was to refuse to hold hearings on Merrick Garland as Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court....
...Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority in the student loan forgiveness case, chastised the liberal justices for their public criticisms....
...The US Supreme Court has thrown out Joe Biden’s student loan relief scheme in a fatal blow to one of the administration’s flagship programmes....
...Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, which was backed by liberal and conservative justices....
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