Tony Mauro

September 30, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief

After a headline-making June and a long summer recess, the U.S. Supreme Court returns to the bench on Oct. 5 for a bracing reminder that not all its cases will rock the world.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

September 30, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief

After a headline-making June and a long summer recess, the U.S. Supreme Court returns to the bench on Oct. 5 for a bracing reminder that not all its cases will rock the world.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

September 28, 2015 | National Law Journal

Doug Kendall, who founded the Constitutional Accountability Center seven years ago and built it into an influential counterweight to conservative legal thinking, died on Sept. 26 at age 51. The cause was colon cancer, according to an announcement by the Washington-based organization.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

September 28, 2015 | National Law Journal

Doug Kendall, who founded the Constitutional Accountability Center seven years ago and built it into an influential counterweight to conservative legal thinking, died on Sept. 26 at age 51. The cause was colon cancer, according to an announcement by the Washington-based organization.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

September 24, 2015 | Law.com

Pope Francis made an unscheduled visit Wednesday night to the Little Sisters of the Poor with the aim of showing support for the group's battle against the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate before the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

September 24, 2015 | National Law Journal

Pope Francis made an unscheduled visit Wednesday night to the Little Sisters of the Poor with the aim of showing support for the group's battle against the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate before the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

September 23, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief

Bring a scorecard to the U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments set for Oct. 7. With six lawyers arguing in three cases that involve three defendants and two separate issues, you'll need something to keep things straight.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

September 23, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief

Bring a scorecard to the U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments set for Oct. 7. With six lawyers arguing in three cases that involve three defendants and two separate issues, you'll need something to keep things straight.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

September 23, 2015 | National Law Journal

U.S. Supreme Court justices are expected to attend D.C. events featuring Pope Francis this week, including a Mass he will celebrate Wednesday at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and Thursday's address to a joint session of Congress.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

September 21, 2015 | National Law Journal

"Last term was a term in which the court followed what Humpty Dumpty famously said: 'When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less,'" Justice Samuel Alito Jr. said at a recent Federalist Society event in Texas. Alito said the term was a "very bad term for textualism," referring mainly to the 6-3 ruling that rescued the Affordable Care Act from an interpretation that might have wrecked it.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read