At the oral arguments in the mifepristone case, a majority of justices appeared skeptical about the legal standing of a Christian doctors’ association to sue the Food and Drug Administration
Chief Justice John Roberts, positing what might happen if Steve Elster were to win, said people then would race to trademark ‘Trump too this, Trump too that’
The ethics legislation has little chance of passing the Senate or the Republican-controlled House of Representatives
The committee’s legislation would impose new standards for transparency around recusals, gifts and potential conflicts of interest
Controversy over gifts received by Justice Clarence Thomas from a Republican donor puts the spotlight on who controls the untouchable members of the nation’s highest court and opens a debate on its reform
The president’s only hope for moving forward with his program appeared to be the slim possibility that the court would find that Republican-led states and individuals challenging the plan lacked the legal right to sue
Thomas, the court’s longest-serving justice and staunchest conservative, has been skeptical of other Biden administration initiatives
The report recommends changes so that it’s harder for something similar to happen in the future
The probe has not determined the source of the leak
Title 42, a controversial policy introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic, was about to expire, but Republican states mounted a legal challenge that justices will resolve next year, effectively allowing expulsions until then