Constitutional Test News Today

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a Biden nominee Thursday who failed to answer basic constitutional questions during her confirmation hearing.

An investigation by ProPublica revealed a deal worth more than $100,000 between the real estate magnate and the justice.

In Israel, the United States and other democracies, bitter battles are being waged over the same question.

In an emergency application, lawyers for the government asked the justices to stay all of a Texas judge’s ruling suspending a commonly used abortion medication.

In a unanimous decision, the justices ruled that people and companies need not wait for administrative rulings to press constitutional claims in federal court.

The justice’s relationship with Harlan Crow has raised questions about whether a friendship can be separated from politics and intensified calls for an ethics code for the justices.

Even justices hostile to abortion and the administrative state may think twice, legal scholars said, before embracing a Texas judge’s decision.

In “Nine Black Robes,” Joan Biskupic traces the rise of the Supreme Court’s triumphant and aggressive supermajority.

Legal scholars say the ruling by a Texas judge, if upheld, could spur disputes over many medications and upend the drug industry’s reliance on the agency.

One federal judge said the F.D.A.’s approval of the drug mifepristone was invalid, while another federal judge ordered the agency to keep the pill available. The legal fallout is just beginning.