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Poll: 52 Percent Can’t Name a Single Supreme Court Justice
52 percent of voters overall were unable to name one High Court justice. 48 percent of voters overall said they could or correctly named a justice. 59 percent of voters identifying as conservatives could not name a justice. 57 percent of voters identifying as liberals correctly named a justice. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the most recognizable justice; she was correctly identified by 25 percent of voters, according to the survey. … [Read more...] about Poll: 52 Percent Can’t Name a Single Supreme Court Justice
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg released from hospital after lung surgery
Ginsburg, the court's oldest and longest-serving justice, was nominated in 1993 by then-President Bill Clinton. She has survived both colon and pancreatic cancer and had a heart stent procedure in 2014. Still, Ginsburg has never missed Supreme Court arguments in her more than 25 years on the bench, according to The Associated Press. … [Read more...] about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg released from hospital after lung surgery
Supreme Court agrees deportation provision of immigration law is too vague
A federal appeals court in San Francisco previously struck down the provision as too vague, and on Monday the Supreme Court agreed. The appeals court based its ruling on a 2015 Supreme Court decision that struck down a similarly worded part of another federal law that imposes longer prison sentences on repeat criminals. … [Read more...] about Supreme Court agrees deportation provision of immigration law is too vague
Chief Justice John Roberts is now the Supreme Court’s swing vote
The nice thing about this score is that it allows us to place each justice on an ideological scale, which in turn allows us to track the overall ideology of the Supreme Court over time, including the position of the crucial median justice. The accompanying graphic shows what that looks like, going back to 1937. … [Read more...] about Chief Justice John Roberts is now the Supreme Court’s swing vote
