While most everyone was reacting to Thursday’s presidential debate, we had our eyes trained on the Supreme Court. The unelected robed leaders then laid a finishing blow in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, overturning the decades-long guidance of the long-standing Chevron doctrine and upending the ways in which government agencies can regulate the things they regulate, like: clean air, water, …
Former President Trump’s tough week showed as well as any to date why he is facing a new and unprecedented reality as a presidential candidate — as he ping-ponged among a dizzying array of court appearances, judicial rulings, competing allegations and subsequent grievances. He puts himself above the Supreme Court.” Politics Former tabloid publisher testifies about scheme to shield Trump …
In a stunning 5–4 ruling issued last week in Allen v. Milligan, the Roberts Court, long a foe of the Voting Rights Act, upheld a key component of the VRA and struck down Alabama’s discriminatory congressional maps. It was not until Reconstruction that the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments each gave Congress the power to “enforce” the Constitution’s new guarantees …
This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. I speak, of course, of Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC, a dispute centered on a canine chew toy molded to look like an amber bottle of Jack’s Old No. Except, instead of Jack Daniel’s, the label reads “Bad Spaniels,” and …
The Food and Drug Administration on Jan. 3 finalized a rule change that allows women seeking abortion pills to get them through the mail, replacing a long-standing requirement that they pick up the medicine in person. The lawsuit alleges there is “substantial evidence” that the drugs are harmful to women and girls and that the FDA ignored “the potential impacts …
