Judges & Justices

The consequence of the Supreme Court’s ruling is that only children born in the U.S. to noncitizen parents who have filed separate lawsuits stand a chance of enjoying their constitutional right to birthright citizenship.

With deep disillusionment, I dissent.

Be vigilant against such potential abuses of these tools.

Today’s decision will have very little value if district courts award relief to broadly defined classes without following ‘Rule 23’s procedural protections’ for class certification.

To operate in two different zones moving forward: one in which it is required to follow the law ... and another in which you can choose to violate the law

It would be good if people appreciated it's not the judges' fault that a correct interpretation of the law meant that, no, you don't get to do this.

An existential threat to the rule of law.

At a minimum, it will deprive Medicaid recipients in South Carolina of their only meaningful way of enforcing a right that Congress has expressly granted to them.

Perhaps the degradation of our rule-of-law regime would happen anyway. But this court’s complicity in the creation of a culture of disdain for lower courts, their rulings, and the law (as they interpret it) will surely hasten the downfall…

For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.

I am hopeful that this Court will soon realize that the conflict its §2 jurisprudence has sown with the Constitution is too severe to ignore.

For over three decades, I have called for 'a systematic reassessment of our interpretation of §2.'

These are the only cases argued this Term in which our jurisdiction is mandatory.

Congress requires this Court to exercise jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to congressional redistricting, and we accordingly have an obligation to resolve such challenges promptly.

The Due Process Clause protects an individual's natural liberty from government interference.

There is every reason to think that the ultimate claim of actual innocence on which Gutierrez's case rests is baseless.

The Fourteenth Amendment does not protect Gutierrez's asserted 'liberty interest.'

Intervention serves no purpose other than to exacerbate the already egregious delays endemic to capital litigation.

The statute advances the state’s important interest in shielding children from sexually explicit content.

Will strip those South Carolinians — and countless other Medicaid recipients around the country — of a deeply personal freedom: the ability to decide who treats us at our most vulnerable.

The board's introduction of the 'LGBTQ+ inclusive' storybooks, along with its decision to withhold opt-outs, places an unconstitutional burden on the parents' rights to the free exercise of their religion.

The practice of educating one’s children in one’s religious beliefs, like all religious acts and practices, receives a generous measure of protection from our Constitution.

It is turning over information about yourself and your viewing habits—respecting speech many find repulsive—to a website operator, and then to… who knows?

You relax strict scrutiny in one place, and all of a sudden, strict scrutiny gets relaxed in other places.