by jpitney | Sep 9, 2024 | Public Service, Supreme Court, Violence
Justin Jouvenal at WP: Asked Friday about the challenges of being a Supreme Court justice and a parent of seven children, Amy Coney Barrett told an audience about a time she was sent home from the court with a bulletproof vest and her 13-year-old son saw it tossed on...
by jpitney | Jul 13, 2024 | Bureaucracy, Congress, Judiciary, Regulation, Supreme Court
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: A favorite campaign tactic of members of Congress, regardless of party, has been to attack “those unelected bureaucrats” for trying to regulate every aspect of our lives. At the same time, Congress has often avoided enacting detailed...
by jpitney | Mar 17, 2024 | Civility, Judiciary, Supreme Court
Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst at AP: With the Supreme Court’s approval hovering near record lows, two justices have teamed up to promote the art of disagreeing without being nasty about it. In joint appearances less than three weeks apart, Justices Amy Coney...
by jpitney | Dec 2, 2023 | Civility, Judiciary, Supreme Court
Evan Thomas at WP: O’Connor, who cast the decisive vote in 330 cases over 24-plus years on the court and wrote the controlling opinions on major social issues such as abortion and affirmative action, understood that power and influence should be wielded with good...
by jpitney | Apr 17, 2021 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Supreme Court
Colin Kalmbacher at Law and Crime: Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch appeared together during a Zoom presentation in which they both argued that civility in politics is a national security issue. Hosted by the Center for Strategic and...
by jpitney | Sep 21, 2020 | Civility, Supreme Court
At Fox, Christopher Scalia recalls his father’s friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday. Judge Jeffrey Sutton, one of my father’s former clerks, tells a story about visiting my father at the Supreme Court on what happened to be Justice...
