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Jun 21, 2021 · New York Times, "Supreme Court Backs Payments to Student-Athletes in N.C.A.A. Case," June 21, 2021 Washington Post, " Those 5-to-4 decisions on the Supreme Court? 9 to 0 is far more common ," June ...
Jul 1, 2024 · Politics Jul 1, 2024 7:08 PM EDT. This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact. In a landmark ruling with potentially major impact on the 2024 presidential campaign, a U.S. Supreme Court ...
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...
- Reduced Unanimity and The Rise of The 6-3 Court
- Roberts and Kavanaugh Exert Their Influence
- Dissents and Concurrences Rise
This term, only 29% of the court’s decisions on the merits were unanimous. This is a sharp drop from the 43% average over the past decade. And for the first time in recent memory, 9-0 was not the most common vote alignment. Instead, 6-3 was the most common alignment, with 30% of cases being decided along those lines. Most of those 6-3 decisions — 1...
Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh remain in positions of power as the court’s median justices. They were in the majority in 95% of the court’s decisions, and dissented only three times each. In fact, in a sign of how much they are in lockstep, their dissents were in the same three cases. As has been true in each of the past three terms, Roberts a...
Collectively, the justices wrote slightly more opinions than they did in the prior two terms, though the number of cases the court granted for argument continues its gradual trend downward. Sotomayor and Thomas, the justices at the court’s ideological poles, were the most prolific writers, as usual. In Thomas’ case, that was driven by a high number...
May 3, 2023 · Newly released documents from the files of a late justice show how the Supreme Court was concerned with how to avoid appearing political when it ruled unanimously against President Bill Clinton ...
Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1997), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case establishing that a sitting President of the United States has no immunity from civil law litigation, in federal court, for acts done before taking office and unrelated to the office. [1] In particular, there is no temporary immunity and thus no delay of ...
Jul 1, 2023 · The percentage of unanimous decisions grew, by a large margin, to 47 percent from last term’s 28 percent. ... appointed to the court by President Biden, about 62 percent of the time and with ...
