Jimmy Hoover

March 26, 2024 | Supreme Court Brief

"There's not so much money here that the tribes are spending this on frolics and detours, right?" Justice Neil Gorsuch said.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read

March 25, 2024 | National Law Journal

"Those theories will not bring about the advantages that their advocates hope to achieve. They will not bring certainty to the law," the retired justice writes in his forthcoming book, "Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism."

By Jimmy Hoover

7 minute read

March 25, 2024 | Supreme Court Brief

The justices this week will confront another major dispute dealing with abortion that could affect the reproductive health rights of millions of women around the country.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read

March 21, 2024 | National Law Journal

Trump's supporters at the high court include more than 20 Republican states, 28 members of Congress and two former U.S. attorneys general.

By Jimmy Hoover

6 minute read

March 21, 2024 | Supreme Court Brief

"The panel's inaction at this late juncture has invited chaos and uncertainty into South Carolina's Congressional elections," the state lawmakers wrote.

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read

March 20, 2024 | National Law Journal

"I guess the concern I have here is the crime, the offense is a serious offense," Justice Brett Kavanaugh said in questioning the claimed retaliation.

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read

March 20, 2024 | Supreme Court Brief

"Justice Alito is inviting, I think, even more chaos among courts," Justice Sotomayor said.

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read

March 19, 2024 | National Law Journal

"Texas can now immediately enforce its own law imposing criminal liability on thousands of noncitizens and requiring their removal to Mexico," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissent joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read

March 19, 2024 | National Law Journal

"Mixed questions of law and fact, even when they are primarily factual, fall within the statutory definition of 'questions of law' ... and are therefore reviewable," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the majority.

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read

March 19, 2024 | National Law Journal

"Put simply, the government's sparse declaration falls short of demonstrating that it cannot reasonably be expected to do again in the future what it is alleged to have done in the past," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for a unanimous court.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read