Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, voting to uphold the conviction and death sentence, while Justice Amy Coney Barrett would have allowed a state appeals court to decide how to proceed.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, saying that the precedent deserved a fresh look since the court overturned Roe.
The court decided not to take the case brought against the government by an Air National Guard member who was paralyzed during back surgery at a military hospital.
For nearly three years, it has seemed inevitable that the Supreme Court would strike down the “buffer zones” that restrict protests near the entrances of reproductive health clinics. A majority of the court has already castigated these laws—and past precedent upholding them—as a subversion of anti-abortion protesters’ First Amendment rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a case challenging an Illinois city’s abortion clinic buffer zone ordinance, prompting a sharp dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas, who argued that the Court missed an opportunity to clarify the status of a controversial precedent that has long been criticized for undermining First Amendment
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Thomas Clarence has accused the Supreme Court majority of stretching the law "at every turn" to save a man from the death penalty. On February 25, the Supreme Court decided 5-3 to grant a new trial to Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip,
After all, the Supreme Court is stacked with six Republican appointees, including three selected by Trump in his first term. The
The Supreme Court refused Monday to take up a First Amendment case to revisit a previous ruling enshrining abortion clinic buffer zone laws, earning a fiery dissent from Justice Thomas.
Abortion opponents wanted the Supreme Court to scrap protest restrictions around clinics. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said they would have taken the case.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote Monday that the Supreme Court should not let “confusion persist” regarding students’ free speech rights on
SCOTUS vacated the death sentence of an Oklahoma man named Richard Glossip. But we should take a closer look at the dissent by Justice Clarence Thomas.