Chief Justice John Roberts Archives

SCOTUS Hears University Affirmative Action Cases

November 14, 2022 2:32 amNovember 13, 2022 3:42 pm

This is Part II of a series on two U.S. Supreme Cases which will decide if racial preferences in college application acceptances will be allowed to continue at publicly funded schools. In February of this year I wrote that the...

Supreme Court’s School Choice Decision Opens the Floodgates, but Some States Ignore

July 9, 2022 11:02 amJuly 10, 2022 8:37 am

California’s public schools were once the envy of the nation. Today, California’s public schools not only rank at the bottom of the entire country, the state spends approximately $22,000 per year for each child in the public school system to...

Supreme Court Deals Blow to U.S. Climate Agenda with EPA Decision

June 30, 2022 8:40 amJuly 1, 2022 6:32 am

The Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to set standards on climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions for existing power plants. The court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA says that government doesn’t have the power to...

SCOTUS Decision a Victory for Property Owners

June 24, 2021 8:19 am

The United States Supreme Court just affirmed Wednesday that the government cannot force people to allow third parties to trespass on their property. In Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, the Pacific Legal Foundation represented two California agriculture businesses which challenged a...