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Conservative Supreme Court Justices are on alert for a promising case in which to expand Second Amendment rights. It might be the case of a Pennsylvania woman who takes a stance endorsed the newest Justice, Amy Coney Barrett.
The Supreme Court’s denial of a request from Texas inmates in a geriatric prison in Texas to allow further protections from COVID-19 could signal a more assertive defense of state and local officials’ prerogatives in the midst of a pandemic. But that will be tested in other cases turning on religious liberties.
Amy Coney Barrett joins the Supreme Court with emergency requests pending involving the election and President Donald Trump’s financial records.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said nominee Amy Coney Barrett “deserves better than this. The political system is broken, I get that. Plenty of blame to go around. But she’s one of the best people ever nominated to the court.”
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the belief that a person has committed a misdemeanor is enough basis for police to enter a home without a warrant.
Supreme Court justices have refused to allow television cameras into their oral arguments, although they release audio recordings.
“It would be hard to imagine a criminal justice system as big as ours without having an implicit bias in it,” Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett said on the second day of her confirmation hearing Tuesday.
Pressed by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham whether she believed she could “fairly decide a case even though you own a gun,” high court nominee Amy Coney Barrett responded: “Yes.”
Senate Democrats opened the judicial hearings on Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination Monday with warnings that she represented a threat to the Affordable Care Act and many Americans’ health care.
Gun-rights advocates for years have pushed the Supreme Court to use a more gun-friendly test when evaluating whether to strike down gun controls. Nominee Amy Coney Barrett seems to be on their side, but that alone may not upend gun litigation.