On June 30, 2022, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., administered the Constitutional Oath and Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer (Retired) administered the Judicial Oath to the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson in a ceremony in the West Conference Room before a small gathering of Judge Jackson’s family. A formal investiture ceremony will take place at […]
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US Supreme Court Opinion Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
The Supreme Court has overturned Roe V. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion. ALITO, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which THOMAS, GORSUCH, KAVANAUGH, and BARRETT, JJ., joined. THOMAS, J., and KAVANAUGH, J., filed concurring opinions. ROBERTS, C. J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. BREYER, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ., filed […]
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Justice Sotomayor’s dissent to the 5-4 majority’s order allowing a Texas law banning almost all abortion care to remain in force
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE BREYER and JUSTICE KAGAN join, dissenting. The Court’s order is stunning. Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of Justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand. Last night, the […]
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Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933-2020
September 18, 2020 – Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died this evening surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C., due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer. She was 87 years old. Justice Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Clinton in 1993. She was the second woman appointed to the […]
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Justice Sotomayor’s dissent to SCOTUS asylum decision in Bar v. East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
September 11, 2019 – JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE GINSBURG joins, dissenting from grant of stay. The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. The district court’s July 24, 2019 order granting a preliminary injunction and September 9, 2019 order restoring the nationwide scope of the […]
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery for lung cancer
December 21, 2018 – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent a pulmonary lobectomy today at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Two nodules in the lower lobe of her left lung were discovered incidentally during tests performed at George Washington University Hospital to diagnose and treat rib fractures sustained in a fall on […]