#Supreme Court

One of the most common mistakes in Washington is to confuse movement with action.

The Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court not to take up a lawsuit that calls the all-male military draft unconstitutional. Because Congress is considering whether women should also be required to sign up, acting solicitor general Elizabeth B. Prelogar said in a brief to the court, “any reconsideration of the constitutionality of the male-only registration requirement . . . would be premature at this time.”

In early 1971, as NAACP attorney Julius Chambers awaited the Supreme Court’s ruling in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, his office was bombed. This was not the first time that the iconic civil rights lawyer had faced violence for attempting to desegregate the North Carolina school district. Six years prior, in January of 1965, days after Chambers first filed the suit, his car was bombed; later that year, his house.

Before a quartet of Democratic members of Congress could take to the steps of the Supreme Court on Thursday to tout a new bill that would expand the number of justices from nine to 13, leaders of their party were already deflating that effort. “I have no plans to bring...

The Democratic push to expand the Supreme Court has led to opponents resurfacing Democrats' "We Need Nine" campaign in support of then-Judge Merrick Garland's 2016 nomination, which emphasized the need for nine justices on the high court. Republicans on Thursday reminded Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., the lead Senate sponsor on...

Congressional Democrats plan to unveil legislation expanding the size of the Supreme Court on Thursday, according to three congressional sources familiar with the closely held measure. The bill would add four seats to the high court, bringing the total to 13 from the current nine. The bill is led by...

Liberal congressional Democrats unveiled a proposal Thursday to expand the number of seats on the U.S. Supreme Court from nine to 13 — a move Republicans have blasted as "court packing" and which has almost no chance of being voted on after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she has "no plans to bring it to the floor."

In another late-night ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday blocked another California coronavirus restriction on religious gatherings, saying the state’s limits on home-based Bible study and prayer sessions violated constitutional rights. The 5-to-4 order on an emergency petition illustrates how a new majority on the court — with Justice Amy...

I can distill the Democrats’ decades-long failure to control the Supreme Court into a single concept: Republicans use the nation’s highest court to reward their hard-core voting base; Democrats use it to pacify their moderates. The staunch refusal of establishment Democrats to offer anything more than a token defense of their voters through the court is the reason Democrats are always fighting an asymmetrical war over the third branch of government—and always losing.

There is fury on the right over President Biden’s new commission to study reform of the federal judiciary, including expansion of the nine-member Supreme Court, a.k.a. “court-packing.”. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called it “a direct assault on our nation’s independent judiciary and yet another sign of the Far...