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Takeaways from the Supreme Court's Term
07 Jul 2025 20:04 GMT
… 6-3 majority opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas upended settled precedents in prior … is a systemic problem in death penalty prosecutions in Oklahoma.
In Hewitt … course of the term, the Supreme Court issued critical emergency orders checking …
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A triumphant Supreme Court term for Trump, fueled by emergency rulings
29 Jun 2025 11:48 GMT
… court’s long break.
“Only Supreme Court justices and schoolchildren,” he wrote in … applications are another matter. Excluding death penalty cases, the median time … point drop in agreement between Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, both conservatives …
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Legal Docket: Justices rule narrowly on broad questions
03 Jul 2025 07:21 GMT
… final opinions from the US Supreme Court’s term. Three decisions, split … ruling in a high-stakes death penalty case out of Texas, a … .
REICHARD: The three dissenters, Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch thought …
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U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Texas death row inmate pushing for DNA evidence tests
27 Jun 2025 00:01 GMT
… make Gutierrez ineligible for the death penalty because he was convicted under … a subsequent appeal to the Supreme Court stayed Gutierrez’s scheduled execution … applied. Alito was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch in the …
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Honoring “Chief” Justice Thomas’s thirty years of service on the U.S. Supreme Court
15 Jun 2025 21:12 GMT
… explore the jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court Justice, touching upon the significance … that precedents against the death penalty by the Supreme Court do not override the …
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Oklahoma to retry Richard Glossip for noncapital murder after Supreme Court threw out conviction
11 Jun 2025 16:00 GMT
… life sentence, after the Supreme Court threw out the death … to the U.S. Supreme Court that Mr. Glossip did … dissented in part. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, which Justice Samuel Alito joined. … would not seek the death penalty against Glossip because Sneed, …
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Oklahoma to retry Richard Glossip after Supreme Court tossed his death penalty conviction
10 Jun 2025 17:33 GMT
… the justices overturned his conviction and death penalty sentence. The Supreme Court majority opinion …
The Supreme Court's February decision, written by Justice Sonia … in the majority opinion.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from …
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Beware the Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’
02 Jun 2025 20:24 GMT
… the firings as unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court’s ruling was issued on … for stays of execution in death penalty cases — emergency requests in high … by Alito and joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.
On May 30, the court …
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David Souter, Supreme Court justice dies at 85
09 May 2025 14:42 GMT
Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, the … , and restriction of the death penalty. He saw his role … , who then covered the Supreme Court for The Washington Post, … and another Bush appointee, Clarence Thomas, Justice Souter’s opinions reflected “ …
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Did the Supreme Court Just Grow a Spine?
22 Apr 2025 14:39 GMT
… that a majority of Supreme Court justices have gotten pissed at … court’s two dissenting justices (Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito) could … in the context of death penalty cases. Death row inmates … -ahead to murder them. Supreme Court justices (even the ones I …