A majority of Supreme Court justices did not attend Donald Trump’s joint speech to Congress Tuesday night, among them two of the court’s three liberals: Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Also absent were Justices Samuel Alito,
The court rarely sides with death row inmates, so this rebuke to dishonest prosecutors is a remarkable victory in the fight against unconstitutional executions. But the case has several unusual features that make it more of an outlier than the turn of a new leaf.
Earlier, the chief justice temporarily let the Trump administration avoid paying out congressionally appropriated funds for now.
From Justice Sotomayor's statement respecting the denial of review today in Gonzalez v. U.S., joined by Justice Gorsuch: Founding-era common law gave
In the end, justices appeared to come to rare consensus -- to find what Justice Neil Gorsuch called "radical ... Barrett during questioning. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court's senior liberal ...