What expectation of privacy do consumers have in an increasingly technological world? New technology is forcing more answers – and reinterpretation of the Constitution.
To be just the second woman appointed to the US Supreme Court is to blaze trails, which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did throughout her career – for decades before Millennials coined her the “Notorious RBG.” For women, especially women judges and lawyers, she’s an icon. But the emergence of justices as symbolic political figures, some say, could do damage to the high court.
The ‘Trump effect’ on law will begin to be felt in earnest during the high court’s term that begins Monday, with big cases on religious freedom, partisan gerrymandering, and unions. But the rapid pace of the president’s judicial nominations could have a broader, more lasting effect.
The 9th Circuit handed down the Trump administration’s latest legal defeat Monday, ruling unanimously to maintain a block on the revised travel ban. Is President Trump being denied the ‘presumption of regularity’ extended to other presidents?
‘The balance of faith and freedom, the balance of free exercise rights and … self-determination rights, are pretty fundamental questions,’ says Sen. Chris Coons, a member of the committee that will question the high court nominee, in an exclusive interview.
Immigrants fighting deportation can be detained for more than a year without a judge’s approval. The Supreme Court will consider if that is constitutional at a time when Donald Trump could increase deportations.