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The Supreme Court Might Help Trump Win. But He’ll Never Set Foot in the White House Again

Monday, March 4, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump seems fated to win I get it. Donald Trump, the twice-impeached and four-times indicted insurrectionist, is also a well-documented serial liar and sexual predator. In stark contrast, despite Trump’s attempts to smear him with dishonesty and grift, Joe Biden is hailed for his honesty and integrity. Furthermore, he’s arguably the most successful first-term president in US history. Yet, in a foreboding… Read more.

Senate Confirms Jackson First Black Woman on Supreme Court

Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 7:51 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

“A picture is worth a thousand words” Never before in the history of American politics has that adage been more apropos than everything this picture says about this time in America’s fraught march toward a more perfect union. But I’d be remiss not to comment on the fact that Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina,… Read more.

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Supreme Court Begins Most Transformative Term With Least Public Trust

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 6:21 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

The first Monday in October marks the beginning of a new term for the Supreme Court. This tradition dates back to 1916. But the Court has never marked this occasion with public opinion of its impartiality as low as it is today. The Supreme Court’s approval rating is plummeting, its critics are more caustic, and… Read more.

Supreme Court Rules Trump Can Ban Muslims…

Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 7:47 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

But this ruling merely affirms that justices are every bit as tribal as politicians. I pointed out in my June 24 commentary below that there’s nothing new about the tribalism that now defines life in America. I cited many commentaries in which I lamented how this became a defining feature of political debates. But I… Read more.

Antonin Scalia, Pugnacious Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Is Dead

Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 9:47 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Justice Antonin Scalia, whose transformative legal theories, vivid writing and outsize personality made him a leader of a conservative intellectual renaissance in his three decades on the Supreme Court, was found dead on Saturday at a resort in West Texas… ‘He was an extraordinary individual and jurist, admired and treasured by his colleagues,’ Chief Justice… Read more.

‘Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights’ for Blacks? Hardly…

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 6:32 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

It’s a huge defeat for the civil rights community on the most important civil rights law ever passed. The Court has revoked and canceled part of Martin Luther King’s dream. (Reverend Al Sharpton, The Huffington Post, June 25, 2013) Given the way Black civil rights activists reacted, you’d think the decision the Supreme Court handed… Read more.

Supreme Court Hears Legal Fight for/against Same-Sex Marriage

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 7:42 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage. And tomorrow it will hear arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act (aka DOMA), a federal law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. DOMA also holds that states that ban same-sex marriages are… Read more.

Obamacare: The Supreme Court Rules…

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 5:07 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

All of Washington is waiting with bated breath for tomorrow’s Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of Obamacare. I’m on record predicting not only that the Court will rule it constitutional, but that it will do so by a rare 6-3 margin: I predict the Court will rule 6-3 to upholdthe constitutionality of what is… Read more.

Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizona Anti-Immigration Law

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 5:27 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Today the Supreme Court struck down 75 percent of Arizona’s anti-immigration law: a) ruling it unconstitutional for police officers to make warrantless arrests of anyone they suspect is an illegal immigrant; b) ruling it unconstitutional to require illegal immigrants to carry federal documents; and c) ruling it unconstitutional for the state to arrest illegal immigrants merely for seeking… Read more.

Obama nominates Sotomayor as first Hispanic on Supreme Court

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 1:16 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Republican wingnuts just can’t help themselves.  Because they know full well that, based on all academic and professional criteria, Judge Sonia Sotomayor is supremely qualified to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the US Supreme Court.  They also know that she will be confirmed.  Not least because she was first nominated to the federal bench by former… Read more.