The Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to keep Donald Trump on Colorado’s ballot was styled as a unanimous one without any dissents. After oral arguments, many smart court watchers mused that the justices might reach a grand bargain that tied this case to a separate dispute involving Trump’s claim of immunity from criminal prosecution for election subversion. The liberal justices …
Two years ago, the Supreme Court set the stage for its 2021–22 term through a wild abuse of the shadow docket after lawmakers in Texas passed a deliberately unconstitutional abortion ban in the form of a vigilante law called S.B. The third full term in thrall to the 6–3 supermajority is now upon us, and it brings yet another crisis …
LOADING ERROR LOADING Chief Justice John Roberts may have written the majority opinion for the U.S. Supreme Court that ended affirmative action on Thursday, but Justice Clarence Thomas may savor the moment the most. “I believe that there is a ‘moral constitutional equivalence’ … between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of …
The Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha sought the response of the Central government on whether concurrence of an IPS officer, who is on Central government deputation, is necessary before his appointment as Director General of Police in a State. At the outset, the petitioner submitted that UPSC had only forwarded one name to …
Responding to the arguments of the petitioners against the National Law Aptitude Test, Senior Advocate Arvind P Datar made submissions before the Supreme Court on behalf of the National Law School of India University.Taking the bench through the provisions of the NLSIU Act, Datar submitted that the Executive Council needs to take the concurrence of the Academic Council only to. …
Jammu & Kashmir People's Conference has filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court challenging the scrapping of Article 370 through Presidential orders and also the Jammu and Kashmir Act of 2019.The petition contends that the Presidential Order has been issued pursuant to the "concurrence" of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, despite there being no. Jammu & Kashmir People's …