Samuel Alito
Conservative Justices Alito and Thomas dissented from the decision.
His defiance over ethics concerns only drives home their importance, and how much more robust standards need to be applied to the high court.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s ethics complaint against Justice Samuel Alito is an opportunity to check the ever-growing political power of nine unelected jurists.
The Supreme Court justice appeared to be trying to intercept a ProPublica report on his ties to billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer.
After the Supreme Court gutted Roe v. Wade, a young woman confronted the new reality in a state with a uniquely harsh, immediate ban.
This isn’t constitutionalism, or even politics. It’s religious fundamentalism, using legal theory as a fig-leaf.
The decision effectively ends abortion access for roughly 40 million women and girls in nearly two dozen states across the country.