Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Shuffling through papers that he suggested were studies from various European countries that urged caution in the provision of puberty blockers to teens, Alito engaged in a “gotcha” line of questioning, insisting that Prelogar—the meticulous and unmatched litigator who …
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have again tipped their hands and shown that ideology guides their Supreme Court judgments more than legal philosophy, according to a report. The conservative jurists issued conflicting decisions last week in a pair of cases involving parental rights and gender identity, offering contradictory analyses that Slate columnist Hila Keren said "reveal a position of …
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Alito and Thomas, however, criticized this approach, insisting that lower courts should not use standing as “a way of avoiding some particularly contentious constitutional questions.” In their view, the court should have followed Troxel v. Granville and considered how …
