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
The policy, agreed to by all nine justices, does not appear to impose any significant new requirements and leaves compliance entirely to each justice
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
Some all-expenses-paid trips — to Italy, Iceland and Hawaii, among others — are light on classroom instruction, with ample time carved out for the justices’ leisure
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
Thomas, the court’s longest-serving justice and staunchest conservative, has been skeptical of other Biden administration initiatives