The Supreme Court issued an important and disturbing decision substantially curtailing the rights of immigrant families on Friday in Department of State v. Muñoz. The Supreme Court considered several constitutional immigrants’ rights cases when Justice Anthony Kennedy was at the court’s center, and it was generally not willing to reaffirm the most draconian immigration law precedents from the Chinese Exclusion …
This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. What’s remarkable is who seized on this squabble over intellectual property to launch a scathing salvo against the conservative majority’s “laser-like focus” on “supposed history and tradition”: Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative who presented as a true believer in originalism when joining …
Amy Coney Barrett, at her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing Tuesday, has said that she shares the originalism philosophy of her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Originalism, the judicial philosophy of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, and her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, is once again the subject of intense interest and public debate. Had the court …
