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To get a better picture of how this will affect the race, though, we’ll have to wait longer. The 2010s featured a lot of great social science. For the most part, these cases represent important and ongoing trends in the Court’s decisions. Now that both parties understand this dynamic, congressional dysfunction is likely to be America’s new normal, which means that the Supreme Court will exercise more and more unchecked power. Welcome to FindLaw's searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1760. But, as the Court explained in United States v. Lee (1982), “when followers of a particular sect enter into commercial activity as a matter of choice, the limits they accept on their own conduct as a matter of conscience and faith are not to be superimposed on the statutory schemes which are binding on others in that activity.”.
In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor catalogs many statements Trump made “alluding to a desire to keep Muslims out of the country,” and she compared the majority’s decision to the Court’s infamous Japanese detention decision in Korematsu v. United States (1944). As Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell put it in 2010, when legislation is bipartisan, that tends “to convey to the public that this is okay, they must have figured it out.” For that reason, it was “absolutely critical” that every Republican vote against Obama’s biggest achievement. Search U.S. Supreme Court Cases By Year . As Congress grew more dysfunctional, the Supreme Court seized tremendous power. newsletter. The abbreviations 'FC' and 'AP' stand for 'Funded Client' and 'Assisted Person' respectively. Since 2000, however, the percentage of Americans who approve of the way the Supreme Court handles its responsibilities has fallen from 62 percent to only 46 percent. The United States Supreme Court is the highest federal court of the United States. merchants with relatively equal bargaining power, shunted into a privatized arbitration system, use an otherwise illegal drug in a religious ceremony, right not to be fired because of your gender or sexual orientation, strip federal agencies of much of the regulatory power delegated to them by Congress, appear to be five votes on the Supreme Court, only three members of the Court publicly dissented, the Democratic vote share to drop by 3.5 percent, The decade in 15 awe-inspiring space images, Culture in the 2010s was obsessed with finding community — and building walls, The Social Network knew we’d spend the next decade moving our lives online, How the 2014 Christian film God’s Not Dead became a hit and spawned an ideological empire, Fandom went mainstream in the 2010s — for better and worse, Beyoncé’s Lemonade is one of the best movies of the 2010s, How a Twitter war in 2010 helped change the way we talk about women’s writing, This comedy of manners from 2012 perfectly anticipated the 2010s’ reckoning with misogyny, How March of the Penguins ruined the nature documentary, Louie was my favorite show of the decade — until it very abruptly wasn’t. It is a list about how Republican justices are likely to wield their power in an age of legislative dysfunction, and it offers a warning to Democrats.
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Some early cases from the court may not be available. Exclusive poll: Biden won the debate convincingly. Biden raised nearly $4 million in one hour after the debate. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. It also left them more vulnerable. Just as in Korematsu, Sotomayor warned, Trump v. Hawaii “blindly accept[s] the Government’s misguided invitation to sanction a discriminatory policy motivated by animosity toward a disfavored group, all in the name of a superficial claim of national security.”. So there was no longer a need for the “extraordinary measures” employed by the fully operational Voting Rights Act — a requirement that states and localities with a history of voter discrimination “preclear” any new voting rules with officials in Washington, DC. By comparison, in states that didn’t expand Medicaid there were 15,600 additional deaths during the same period.”.
“People were so upset when I used the word Muslim,” Trump said in 2016, “and I’m okay with that, because I’m talking territory instead of Muslim.” In Trump v. Hawaii, the Supreme Court considered Trump’s third attempt to ban travel from several majority Muslim nations, and the Supreme Court upheld it. Citizens United redefined the word “corruption” so narrowly as to render it meaningless. Concepcion held that forced arbitration agreements may also ban class actions — a mechanism that allows many people who were injured by the same company to join together in a single lawsuit against that company. This decision matters because it effectively grants impunity to companies that cheat many people out of a relatively small sum of money. The workers, meanwhile, are unlikely to sue because the cost of hiring a lawyer will exceed the $1,000 in losses.