The recent showdown over the abortion pill mifepristone offers a glimpse of the legal fights likely to land at the court in the coming years.
The cases mark the court’s first test of the broad immunity social media companies have enjoyed under a provision known as Section 230, part of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.
The rulings embraced the conservative-backed "originalist” view that the Constitution should be interpreted based on its specific words and the meaning they held when were adopted.
Twitter and Facebook will be compelled to allow the dissemination of Russian propaganda and neo-Nazi screeds under the proposed law, tech groups told the court.
Hearing two hours of arguments in Washington, justices gave a mixed reception to Republican-led states and coal companies seeking to bar the EPA from issuing a plan to cut carbon emissions.
Breyer’s White House announcement Thursday was timed perfectly to give President Joe Biden a needed chance to change the national conversation and reinforce the court’s beleaguered liberal wing.
The next justice would reinforce the court’s outnumbered liberal wing and potentially serve for decades but won’t shift the ideological balance.
All six Republican-appointed justices indicated they would let states start banning abortion far earlier than the court’s precedents now allow.
The Nov. 1 arguments will center on the law’s novel enforcement mechanism rather than the underlying abortion right.
Biden named the commission as liberals demanded reforms after Trump filled three vacancies during his four years in office.
