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Supreme Court Justices Slammed by Judge: 'Incredibly Dishonest'. The U.S. Supreme Court is shown on June 28, 2023 in Washington, D.C. A Hawaii Supreme Court judge criticized the U.S. Supreme Court ...
Dec 21, 2022 · Democratic judges need to account for that in their retirement decisions. by Ian Millhiser. Dec 21, 2022, 3:00 AM PST. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader...
- Ian Millhiser
Jun 9, 2022 · By Madeleine Carlisle. June 9, 2022 5:47 PM EDT. N ew financial-disclosure reports released Thursday reveal how much the U.S. Supreme Court Justices made last year—and show that some of them...
- Madeleine Carlisle
Jul 15, 2021 · July 15, 2021, 7:11 AM PDT. By Wallace B. Jefferson and Ruth V. McGregor. We have arrived at the end of another Supreme Court term. And once again, the oldest justice on the court — Stephen...
- Judicial Scandals Different from Political Scandals
- Public Opinion and Federal Court Legitimacy
- Punishment For Scandals
Beyond Thomas, other Supreme Court justices and their close family membershave recently faced allegations of wrongdoing. These range from Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assault to a controversial real estate saleinvolving Justice Neil Gorsuch. Recent history is replete with instances of judicial nominees and federal judges immersed in sca...
Given this reality, scholars, pollsters and commentators focus their attention on how the public may punish judges and the courts through another means: judgments of their legitimacy. Since the courts are unable to enforce their rulings – they do not have a police force or a military at their disposal – they must rely on public support to ensure br...
Scandal holds the potential to shake the confidence and trust the American public has in its judicial institutions. Our research, which predates the recent media reports on Thomas, looks at whether scandals meaningfully diminish citizen support for members of the judiciary, and the court as an institution. Relying on multiple survey experiments, we...
The U.S. Supreme Court requests $96.4 million ($2.7 million for mandatory expenses and $93.6 million for discretionary expenses) in FY 2021 for the Salaries and Expenses account. The $93.6 million request for discretionary appropriations represents a $5.9 million increase over the FY 2020 enacted discretionary appropriation.
1 day ago · A Federal Judge Delivers Another Urgent, Scathing Warning About the Supreme Court. Mark Joseph Stern. Wed, May 22, 2024, 1:48 PM EDT · 8 min read. It takes a lot of courage for a lower court ...
