"They're their own masters," one legal expert said of the Supreme Court, adding that the justices policing themselves is an institutional problem.
Gutting abortion rights and the EPA wasn't enough. Now the Supreme Court goes for the big prize: Ending democracy
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Hank Johnson ordered the chief justice to name someone who can testify on the court’s ethics scandals.
"Prima facie, we are of the view that the judges are not expected to express personal views or preach," the SC bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal said, adding that the HC's observations are completely in violation of the rights of adolescents under Article 21 of the Constitution.
SC: The then Chief Justice NV Ramana launched the Fast and Secure Transmission of Electronic Records (FASTER) software in March 2022 for speedy and secure transmission of court orders through electronic mode to avoid delays in execution.
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Supreme Court keeps guns away from those guilty of domestic violence.
The Supreme Court's five-member collegium headed by CJI S A Bobde failed to reach consensus over recommending Justice B V Nagarathna, a judge of Karnataka High Court, for appointment as judge of the SC as some said it would lead to supersession of many HC chief justices, who are far more senior than her.
The five-member Constitutional bench of the SC, Justices SA Nazeer, BR Gavai, AS Bopanna, V Ramasubramanian, and BV Nagarathna gave a 4-1 split verdict on the highly polarising topic.Justice Nagarathna, who was the juniormost judge in the Constitution bench was the only one to give a dissenting verdict on demonetisation.Justice Nagarathna said the scrapping of the whole series of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes had to be done through legislation and not through a gazette notification as Parliament cannot be left aloof in a matter of such critical importance.
Clarence Thomas has been reporting rental income from a real estate company – but the company ceased operations in 2006, according to a new report.
The fact that Kavanaugh broke with his conservative colleagues on Thursday shows us how truly baseless the court’s reasoning is.
If Republicans win control of the House by just a handful of seats or less, they will owe their slim majority to the Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court. In a series of election law cases, including one yet to be decided, the court’s conservative justices authorized partisan gerrymandering and effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act’s protections against racially discriminatory redistricting. These decisions led directly to an increase in congressional districts gerrymandered to favor Republicans and decreased the number of Black-majority seats that would have favored Democrats following the 2020 census.
If you can't see racism, you can't do anything to change it.
A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud on Friday said the Governor has administered the oath and having been subscribed to after the administration of the oath, such objections cannot be raised.
Gutting abortion rights and the EPA wasn't enough. Now the Supreme Court goes for the big prize: Ending democracy
KOLKATA: West Bengal has always proclaimed itself a progressive state that shuns caste-based discrimination at all levels. But the harassment of a Dalit family
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A teenager who vanished from Myrtle Beach, SC, in 2009 was repeatedly raped in a gang “stash house” for several days — then she was shot dead and fed to alligators when her disappearance generated …
"He was the first boy I ever knew who cared that I had a brain," RBG says about her late husband, Martin, in a film celebrating her career
In a first, the Supreme Court Collegium had last week recommended for appointment to the apex court three women judges, including Justice B V Nagarathna who will be in line to be the first woman Chief Justice of India (CJI) in September 2027 if she gets the final nod.
New Delhi: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) on Tuesday reversed Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti's decision and allowed a post-graduate candidate to appear in
Last week, the Senate Judicary Committee held a hearing regarding ethics on the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court (SC) – which concluded the hearing of an appeal filed by the Attorney General (AG), requesting to
