Acton Institute Powerblog Archives

Post Tagged 'SCOTUS'

November 12, 2025

Amy Coney Barrett Listens to the Law

Many Americans wonder if any jurist on the U.S. Supreme Court will ever be able to fill the shoes of the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed in 2016. President Trump has—so far—appointed three avowedly originalist justices with the potential to do so. Continue Reading...
June 17, 2025

Fight for the First Amendment

Over the vociferous dissent of Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in Apache Stronghold v. United States. The case, which has rattled around federal courts in the Ninth Circuit for about a decade, is focused on the fate of a tract of land known as Oak Flat in Arizona. Continue Reading...
April 29, 2025

The Debate on Universal Injunctions

Shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, a controversy erupted between the administration and the federal judiciary revolving around the use of universal injunctions issued by federal judges to halt presidential policies and practices nationwide. Continue Reading...
August 29, 2024

Randy E. Barnett: A Principled Commitment to the Truth

The term “Greenhouse effect” is primarily used by the environmentalist movement as an explanation for global warming, but in 1992 Judge Laurence Silberman appropriated the term and in a clever play on words linked it to Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered the Supreme Court at the New York Times for more than 40 years. Continue Reading...
July 31, 2024

Is It Now Illegal to Be Homeless?

According to several headlines, the Supreme Court has “criminalized homelessness” in a decision handed down in the last days of the Spring 2024 term. Others go even further. Not only has homelessness been criminalized, but poverty, too, apparently. Continue Reading...
July 11, 2023

A Win for Religious Employees

As it turns out, the Supreme Court last week opted against transforming the United States into a totalitarian, theocratic hellscape like the New York Times’ Linda Greenhouse had prophesied in January. Continue Reading...
July 05, 2023

Affirmative Action and the Imago Dei

In the days since the Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the media have been saturated with sympathetic personal stories of accomplished people who claim they (or others claim) would never have had a chance at success without race-based affirmative action policies in college admissions. Continue Reading...