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- Affirmative Action. Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina.
- Student Loan Forgiveness. Biden v. Nebraska. Ruling on June 30, 2023. Six votes in favor, three against. Last Friday, the Biden administration — along with tens of millions of college students — faced a setback when the conservative majority on the Supreme Court annulled an earlier sentence regarding the forgiveness of debt from student loans that were granted by the Department of Education.
- LGBTQ Discrimination. 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. Ruling on June 30, 2023. Six votes in favor, three against. Lorie Smith — a 38-year-old evangelical Christian web designer, who only believes in marriage as a union between one man and one woman — is now permitted to refuse to design web pages for gay weddings.
- Immigration and Deportations. United States v. Texas. June 23, 2023. Eight votes in favor, one against. The Supreme Court concurred with the Biden administration on its undocumented immigrant deportation policy.
The most well-known opinions are those released or announced in cases in which the Court has heard oral argument. Each opinion sets out the Court’s judgment and its reasoning and may include the majority or principal opinion as well as any concurring or dissenting opinions.
Jul 7, 2023 · By way of example, we are already seeing such dueling opinion headlines as “With its 303 Creative decision, the Supreme Court opens the door to discrimination” and “Web designer's victory...
May 23, 2024 · When the U.S. Supreme Court issues opinions, you may hear that the nine justices reached a 6-3 or a 5-4 decision. You may also hear that certain justices wrote a concurrence or that there were...
Oct 11, 2024 · Today even Americans who decry these opinions largely accept the idea that the court should have the final say on what the Constitution means. But this idea of judicial supremacy has long been...
Jul 6, 2022 · Stanford scholars examine the recent rulings made by the U.S. Supreme Court and what they reveal about how the highest power in the judicial branch of government views the relationship between the judicial, legislative, and executive functions of power.
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Jul 18, 2002 · Haunted by the doomsday scenario of a Supreme Court dominated by Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the Democrats will fight with every means they can muster to block the appointment of conservative justices.
