Every post published in January 2013, most recent first.
In early February, the blog will host an online symposium to discuss how the Court should rule (and why) on the question presented by Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.: whether human genes are patentable.
Yesterday’s coverage focused on some of the amicus briefs filed recently in the same-sex marriage cases.
The third installment of our four-part interview with Adam Liptak, Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times, can be accessed below the jump.
Yesterday’s press coverage continued to focus on last Friday’s decision by the D.C. Circuit holding that President Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional and the prospect that the Supreme Court will review the issue.
The second installment of our four-part interview with Adam Liptak, Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times, can be accessed below the jump.
Yesterday’s coverage continued to focus on the D.C. Circuit’s decision on Friday holding that President Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional and the likelihood that the Court will review the issue.
Today we are introducing a multimedia section that will collect our own original audio and video content, as well as Court-related videos from around the web. New content will be highlighted in the “SCOTUSblog Multimedia” widget on the right side of our homepage.
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, sitting temporarily on a federal appeals court, suggested in an opinion on Tuesday that it might be unconstitutional for a state to deny handgun licenses to individuals who have only temporary homes in the state, when they want a gun to protect their home there.
Political polarization in Congress seems to be affecting the relationship between Congress and the Supreme Court, inadvertently strengthening the Court at the expense of Congress. These days – unlike in the past – Congress rarely overrides the Supreme Court’s statutory decisions.
In March, the Court will hear argument in two cases challenging the constitutionality of laws forbidding or discouraging same-sex marriage. At the heart of these cases are weighty questions about whether the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause protects the right of same-sex couples to marry.