We say: At the vanguard of the ideological shift in the judicial branch is Associate Justice Samuel Alito, author of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision. NCR editors have named Alito our Newsmaker of the Year for 2022.
President Biden announced Feb. 25 at the White House that he has chosen a "proven consensus builder" by nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal appeals court judge, to serve on the Supreme Court.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Vaccine misinformation in San Francisco; Supreme Court case could weaken the Clean Water Act; Ohio's midterm elections; the unemerged Democratic majority.
On Jan. 21, the 49th annual March for Life will kick off at the precipice of a long-awaited milestone, as the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the ruling that legalized abortion across the U.S.
The Supreme Court blocked a rule by the Biden administration that would have required employees at large businesses to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or wear masks and get tested each week for the coronavirus.
The majority of Supreme Court justices on Jan. 7 questioned the Biden administration's requirement that large businesses need their employees to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or be tested.
Michael Sean Winters: If last year began with the hope that normalcy might return, this year U.S. politics are marked by a fear that the signs of decline in the very fabric of our democracy might become dominant.
This past year was busy for the nation's high court, particularly with issues of interest to Catholics regarding abortion, religious liberty, COVID-19 vaccine mandates and the death penalty.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Perils of packing the court; FDR's expression of democracy's values; League of United Latin American Citizens drops "Latinx"; the Blessed Mother in Advent.
