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Scotus Archive

Archives for June 2015

Politics
Jon Stewart takes on Justice Scalia’s dissent to the marriage equality rulingJon Stewart takes on Justice Scalia’s dissent to the marriage equality ruling
Politics

“Your problem here is bald-faced, out-in-the-open, common-sense experience.”

By German Lopez
Politics
Supreme Court blocks controversial Texas abortion lawSupreme Court blocks controversial Texas abortion law
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Politics

The Supreme Court stay suggests the justices will take up the abortion case

By Sarah Kliff
Climate
The Supreme Court’s mercury decision is pointlessThe Supreme Court’s mercury decision is pointless
Climate

It sets no legal precedents and changes no regulations. Scalia’s just mad, bruh.

By David Roberts
Politics
The Supreme Court’s big death-penalty fight just exploded into the openThe Supreme Court’s big death-penalty fight just exploded into the open
Politics

A bench fight between Breyer and Scalia shows that justices are fed up with tinkering around the edges and want to take on the death penalty itself

By Dara Lind
Supreme Court
Supreme Court decides on lethal injectionSupreme Court decides on lethal injection
Supreme Court

The Supreme Court upheld Oklahoma’s use of untested drugs to kill prisoners in Glossip v Gross.

By Vox Staff
Climate
The Supreme Court throws a wrench in the EPA’s crackdown on mercury pollutionThe Supreme Court throws a wrench in the EPA’s crackdown on mercury pollution
Climate

But even if the EPA’s rule gets struck down, most power plants have already taken steps to comply.

By Brad Plumer
Politics
Justice Scalia: The death penalty deters crime. Experts: No, it doesn’t.Justice Scalia: The death penalty deters crime. Experts: No, it doesn’t.
Politics

Most criminologists disagree with Scalia.

By German Lopez
Politics
Scalia says Breyer and Ginsburg’s death penalty dissent “rejects the Enlightenment”Scalia says Breyer and Ginsburg’s death penalty dissent “rejects the Enlightenment”
Politics

Some characteristic strong rhetoric from Justice Scalia.

By Andrew Prokop
Politics
The Supreme Court just barely saved an important anti-gerrymandering reformThe Supreme Court just barely saved an important anti-gerrymandering reform
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Politics

The 5-4 ruling found that a statewide vote can take districting powers away from the legislature.

By Andrew Prokop
Politics
Sotomayor: OK’s lethal injections are “chemical equivalent of being burned at the stake”Sotomayor: OK’s lethal injections are “chemical equivalent of being burned at the stake”
Politics

But the Supreme Court is letting the state go ahead with them anyway.

By Dara Lind
Technology
The Supreme Court just refused to review a disastrous ruling on software copyrightsThe Supreme Court just refused to review a disastrous ruling on software copyrights
Technology

A controversial copyright ruling could make it harder to make computer programs work together, and the government advised the Supreme Court not to review it.

By Timothy B. Lee
Politics
Read: SCOTUS decision sides with Oklahoma on using experimental lethal injection drugsRead: SCOTUS decision sides with Oklahoma on using experimental lethal injection drugs
Politics

SCOTUS rules 5-4 upholding use of controversial lethal injection drug

By German Lopez, Dara Lind and 1 more
Marriage Equality
The Supreme Court has killed the oldest, dumbest argument against same-sex marriageThe Supreme Court has killed the oldest, dumbest argument against same-sex marriage
Marriage Equality

No, it is absolutely not going to harm your straight marriage.

By Jenée Desmond-Harris
Politics
Is the Supreme Court more liberal? Or are the cases more conservative?Is the Supreme Court more liberal? Or are the cases more conservative?
Politics

What measures of Supreme Court liberalism are actually measuring.

By Ezra Klein
Politics
Here’s how the White House is celebrating the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage rulingHere’s how the White House is celebrating the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling