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What cases are coming up for the Supreme Court?
5 upcoming Supreme Court cases to watch
- Timbs v. Indiana (Excessive fines) The issue: Whether the Eighth Amendment’s exclusion of excessive fines applies to state and local governments.
- Madison v. Alabama (Death penalty)
- Apple Inc. v.
- Nieves v. Bartlett (First Amendment)
- Gamble v. United States (Criminal procedure)
Can a Supreme Court decision be challenged?
When the Supreme Court rules on a constitutional issue, that judgment is virtually final; its decisions can be altered only by the rarely used procedure of constitutional amendment or by a new ruling of the Court.
How many cases has the Supreme Court heard in 2021?
As of December 10, 2021, the court had agreed to hear 53 cases during its 2021-2022 term….Where are the cases coming from?
[hide]List of cases by court of origination – 2021-2022 term | |
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Court | Number of cases |
Total | 53 |
Who Scotus 2021?
John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, was born in Buffalo, New York, January 27, 1955.
Should we be worried about the ACA case now?
While the fate of the ACA was, and is, a live political issue, few legal observers have been terribly worried about the legal outcome of the case now known as California v. Texas, if only because the case seemed much weaker than the 2012 and 2015 cases in which Roberts joined the court’s four liberals.
Is the ACA penalty a constitutional tax?
They based their argument on Chief Justice John Roberts’ 2012 conclusion that the ACA was valid, interpreting that penalty as a constitutionally appropriate tax. Most legal scholars, including several who challenged the law before the Supreme Court in 2012 and again in 2015, find unconvincing the argument that the entire law should fall.
Is the Affordable Care Act now ‘dangling from a thread’?
As Nicholas Bagley, a law professor at the University of Michigan who specializes in health issues, tweeted: “Among other things, the Affordable Care Act now dangles from a thread.” Julie Rovner is senior Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News.
Should courts invalidate an entire law just to revise one part?
“If courts invalidate an entire law merely because Congress eliminates or revises one part, as happened here, that may well inhibit necessary reform of federal legislation in the future by turning it into an ‘all or nothing’ proposition,” wrote a group of conservative and liberal law professors in a brief filed in the case.