Topic: John Roberts (Chief Justice)

Today in History

Today is Friday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2012. There are 339 days left in the year.. . . . Today's Highlight in History:. . On Jan. 27, 1967...
With just weeks until the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law, there are new calls for Justice...
Timothy P. O'Neill (John Marshall Law School) has posted Law and 'The Argumentative Theory' (Oregon Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the...
Hestung Google: The WSJ's Thomas Catanlooks at the role of David Whitaker, a federal prisoner and convicted con artist, in a government sting...

Trust us

Chief Justice John Roberts's response in his year-end report to the increasing controversy over the ethics of Supreme Court justices served to...
The Supreme Court on Monday morning denied a conservative watchdog group's request to argue for Justice Elena Kagan's recusal from the health care...
The Supreme Court has decided that law officials must get a warrant before attaching a GPS device to someone's car. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote...

Decency standards still vague, outdated

An exasperated Mayor Nutter recently reacted to the news of a shooting that took the lives of three Philadelphia teens by saying: "The first way...
Optional soundtrack to this blog post...) . Our Supreme Court has been busy lately. It also has been having a little fun:. . At one point in the...
WASHINGTON — The fate of Arizona's Clean Elections Act, which the Supreme Court on Monday declared unconstitutional, was foreshadowed March 28...