The Supreme Court’s emergency docket has shrunk in recent months, and the way justices issue opinions on these cases has also changed. Our reporter Ann Marimow looks at what these shifts tell us about the justices, and what it could mean for the court.
At an annual meeting of judges and lawyers, the liberal justice defended her conservative colleagues from criticism that they have rubber-stamped President Trump’s agenda.
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Two Supreme Court justices appeared before Congress on Tuesday to testify on the high court’s annual budget request, a showing that was rare for several reasons. Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett, a liberal and conservative appointed by presidents of different political parties, sat side by side in back-to-back hearings as they defended the court’s roughly $228 million ask for fiscal year 2027. Read More: https://thehill.com/newsletters/the-gavel/5968759-supreme-court-testify-congress-budget/ #scotus #law #politics #congress
Two Supreme Court justices appeared before Congress on Tuesday to testify on the high court’s annual budget request, a showing that was rare for several reasons. Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett, a liberal and conservative appointed by presidents of different political parties, sat side by side in back-to-back hearings as they defended the court’s roughly $228 million ask for fiscal year 2027. Read More: https://thehill.com/newsletters/the-gavel/5968759-supreme-court-testify-congress-budget/ #scotus #law #trump
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Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday that her security detail handed her a bulletproof vest the day Politico published the leaked Dobbs draft opinion in May 2022, and that her 12-year-old son discovered it minutes later in her bedroom, asking what it was and why she had it. […] The post Barrett tells Congress her 12-year-old found her bulletproof vest after Dobbs leak appeared first on American Almanac .
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday that her security detail handed her a bulletproof vest the day Politico published the leaked Dobbs draft opinion in May 2022, and that her 12-year-old son discovered it minutes later in her bedroom, asking what it was and why she had it. The testimony marked the first time sitting justices appeared before Congress since 2019. Barrett and Justice Elena Kagan sat side by side to make the case for a $228.4 million Supreme Court budget for fiscal year 2027, including $14.6 million earmarked for security. The request lands at a moment when threats against the judiciary are climbing at a pace that even the justices themselves now describe in personal,…Open