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Posted on October 30, 2018
The image above is a taster of the major Reuters interactive graphic that is tracking how President Donald Trump is transforming the influential appeals courts with his appointments. You can see it in full here. See also the accompanying story I wrote about how Trump is getting close to flipping two appeals courts to Republican-appointed […]
Posted on October 18, 2018
It’s been a strange few months, with the vacancy on the Supreme Court created by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy and the contentious confirmation of his replacement, Justice Brett Kavanaugh dominating what is usually a quiet couple of months for all-things court-related. As the picture above shows, even though Kavanaugh is on the court […]
Posted on December 11, 2017
A case currently before the Supreme Court concerning a Christian baker who refused to make a cake for a gay couple has certainly provoked plenty of debate. After the oral argument on Dec. 5 it appeared to close to call, as I (and others) reported. Here’s the Reuters coverage of that argument. The prediction that […]
Posted on October 10, 2017
For a little preview of what’s ahead in the Supreme Court’s 2017 term, see this segment on C-SPAN:
Posted on April 27, 2017
I now have a professional page on Facebook where I post my stories and other material more regularly than I have been doing here. You can find it here.
Posted on July 15, 2016
A knight randomly appeared outside the Supreme Court on the day of the abortion ruling. He said he was promoting Magna Carta.
Posted on June 29, 2016
President Barack Obama’s administration was on the winning side in a couple of big cases in the Supreme Court term that just ended, namely affirmative action and abortion. But also had a couple of big setbacks on immigration and climate change policy. Read on.
Posted on June 29, 2016
I went on C-Span to discuss the Supreme Court’s big decisions on immigration and affirmative action. Here’s the vid.
Posted on October 6, 2015
Check out this preview of the Supreme Court term, featuring yours truly, via Reuters TV #SCOTUS back in action: http://t.co/OttuJkGv0m — Reuters TV (@ReutersTV) October 5, 2015 For more on the coming term, take a look at these Reuters stories: Supreme Court tackles hot social issues as 2016 election looms U.S. Supreme Court’s business docket […]
Posted on July 10, 2015
Here’s a clip of me on C-SPAN taking viewer calls on the big Supreme Court rulings of the term that just ended and looking a bit ahead to next term.
Lawrence Hurley 