john roberts

• Opinion

Alternative Fact of the Week: John G. Roberts, Jr., America's fact-checker

In the Trump era, sorting fact from fiction can be a challenge. With the administration's bogus census claims, the nation's top jurist was on the case.

• Maryland

Status quo for Carroll County districts: Supreme Court leaves Maryland gerrymandering complaints unresolved

The Supreme Court decided that complaints of partisan gerrymandering — including allegations brought in Maryland — should not be resolved by federal courts.

• Politics

U.S. Supreme Court blocks census citizenship question

The U.S. Supreme Court is forbidding President Donald Trump's administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, for now.

• Politics

U.S. Supreme Court rules in Maryland case that courts have no role in deciding partisan gerrymandering

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal courts are not the appropriate venue to resolve allegations of partisan gerrymandering.

By Luke Broadwater

Jun 27, 2019

• Opinion

Forget Russian hackers, the Supreme Court's gerrymandering decision just crippled American democracy

The Supreme Court's decision in redistricting cases out of Maryland and North Carolina removes any obstacles to outright partisan gerrymandering.

• News

Adnan Syed case: Supreme Court extension offers hint at possible appeal strategy for 'Serial' subject

The Supreme Court is giving Adnan Syed’s attorney another month to appeal the refusal by Maryland’s highest court to grant a new trial to the "Serial" subject.

By Colin Campbell

Jun 20, 2019

• Maryland

Edgewood High graduates reflect on how their school has prepared them for the future

Edgewood High graduate Chase Lotharp, inspired by his teachers, plans to become an educator himself and hopes to serve the next generation of Harford students.

By David Anderson

May 28, 2019

• Opinion

Here's why Sen. Warren's wealth tax is likely unconstitutional

There’s been a lot of commentary about whether Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax — a 2 percent annual levy on a person’s net worth between $50 million and $1 billion, and 3 percent on net worth above $1 billion — would be constitutional. Here's why it isn't.

• Politics

A more skeptical Supreme Court to hear Maryland's redistricting challenge

Chief Justice John Roberts is now the court conservative closest to the center and the focus of the arguments for reining in partisan redistricting, including a case from Maryland.

• Opinion

Cal Thomas: Trump v. Roberts

The judiciary in too many cases appears to have become independent of the Constitution, says Cal Thomas.

• Opinion

Witcover: Trump again insults judiciary in unhinged Thanksgiving tirade

Of the many obscenities President Trump has uttered on television, none compares with his hour-long Thanksgiving Day telephone conversation with his military leaders. He arrogantly used it to peddle his personal political agenda, including his latest attack on the nation's judiciary.

• Opinion

Abortion and the GOP's well-rehearsed charade

Collins says she'll stand up for women's reproductive rights - except it's clear she won't.

• Opinion

Court signals Trump is right on immigrants and due process

Take it from Chief Justice John Roberts, nobody has a right to entry into the United States.

• Politics

Supreme Court sidesteps definitive ruling in Maryland congressional redistricting case

The Supreme Court is resolving partisan redistricting cases from Wisconsin and Maryland without ruling on the broader issue of whether electoral maps can give an unfair advantage to a political party.

By Jeff Barker

Jun 18, 2018

• Politics

Supreme Court wrestles with how political is too political in Maryland redistricting case

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a Maryland redistricting case that has the potential to reshape how congressional boundaries are drawn nationwide.

By John Fritze

Mar 28, 2018

• Opinion

The Supreme Court's uneasy compromise on Trump's travel ban

President Donald Trump called the Supreme Court's decision to partially reinstate his travel ban a "clear victory," but there's nothing clear about it.

• Opinion

A supreme disappointment for students with disabilities

The Supreme Court decision to raise the bar for special education was generally hailed as a victory for students with disabilities. But don't believe it. Under the de minimis standard, there was almost nowhere to go but up, and the court went up only a very little. An 8-0 vote by a court that is usually sharply divided is a sign that the decision may lack clarity or bite.

• Opinion

Grassley v. Roberts

In his scolding of chief justice for politicizing the Supreme Court, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman gets just about everything wrong

• U.S. Supreme Court

Little Sisters argue contraception case at Supreme Court

A case involving a Maryland-based order of nuns appeared to divide the Supreme Court on Wednesday as attorneys argued the Obama administration overstepped its authority by requiring faith-based employers to facilitate health insurance coverage for contraception.

By John Fritze

Mar 23, 2016

• Baltimore City Paper

Wandering Eye: Corporate control of justice, Jeb Bush would kill Baby Hitler, and more

• Opinion

Liberty leaps forward

The arc of the moral universe took a sharp bend toward justice in the last month, says David Horsey.

• Opinion

Same-sex marriage is only the beginning

The political process, not the Supreme Court, should decide whether the country sanctions same-sex marriage.

• Opinion

The GOP's Supreme Court blues

Recent political developments appear to have given the president a second wind, says Jules Witcover.

• Opinion

Clean air gets scrubbed

Court's choice to toss EPA power plant rules leaves Americans at greater risk of birth defects and other ills

• Opinion

Supreme Court sides with the people, not the politicians

The Supreme Court sides with the people, not the powerful. For once.

• Opinion

Republicans still beating a dead horse on Obamacare

The Supreme Court's decisive 6-3 vote confirming the right of all Americans to federally supported health-care insurance should end the Republican Party's losing war on Obamacare — but it probably won't.

By Jules Witcover

Jun 29, 2015

• Maryland

Carroll residents react to Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling

Matt Gibbons, 58, of Union Bridge, shed tears of joy when he heard the U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming the right to same-sex marriage Friday morning.

• Features

Q&A: What the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling means

• Health

Supreme Court upholds Obamacare subsidies

The Supreme Court has upheld the nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, in a ruling that preserves health insurance for millions of Americans.

• Maryland

Supreme Court backs president's foreign policy powers in passport dispute

The Supreme Court declared Monday the Constitution gives the president, not Congress, the lead role in setting the nation's foreign policy, including the "exclusive power" to recognize foreign governments and negotiate sensitive disputes.

• Baltimore City Paper

Wandering Eye: Two surveillance planes flew over Baltimore during unrest, praise for Elena Kagan, and more

• Maryland

Noah Feldman: Court delivers win for pregnant workers

• Maryland

Noah Feldman: Health care future rests with Roberts

• Opinion

Absurdity at the heart of the latest Obamacare challenge

Justice Kennedy turns a debate about four words in the ACA into a constitutional question.

• Opinion

Believers of Ernst hoax say a lot about who we are

The U.S. has become home to so much intellectual backwardness and ideological rigidity, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

• Maryland

Ramesh Ponnuru: Court should rule against Obamacare

• Harford

Changing the seal shouldn't be done on a whim [editorial from The Aegis]

Only time will tell if the change ends up being accepted by the people who put Glassman in office, but such acceptance would have been more likely had the process of making the change been presented as a proposal rather than an order.

• Opinion

When is an online threat a threat?

Our view: Violent speech on the Internet isn't automatically protected just because its author claims artistic expression

• Commuting

Good Morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Monday

• Maryland

Obama should just resign from office [Letter]

• News

Baltimore robbers challenge investigators' use of cellphone data

Attorneys for two convicted robbers are challenging investigators' use of cellphone data, saying that it breached their privacy and that investigators should have used a search warrant to get it. Their appeals in federal court thrust the convicts into the center of a debate about police powers and the meaning of privacy in the digital age.

• Opinion

Republicans may hate Obamacare, but it's still the law of the land and the president is obliged to enforce it [Letter]

Republicans may hate Obamacare, but it's still the law of the land and the president is obliged to enforce it

• Opinion

Maryland clinics still protected by law [Letter]

Those seeking an abortion or other medical treatment in Maryland have some protection from protesters despite Supreme Court ruling

• Opinion

Maryland clinics still protected by law [Letter]

• Baltimore City Paper

Supreme court rules Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, dismisses Proposition 8 appeal

• Baltimore City Paper

Obama Didn't Miss His Line, but Roberts Did

• Readers Respond

What's wrong with nonsectarian prayer? [Letter]

Supreme Court made a mistake and so have Carroll County commissioners with prayer choice

• Opinion

What's wrong with nonsectarian prayer? [Letter]

• Opinion

Public financing leads to fair elections [Commentary]

Four candidates for governor — one Democrat and three Republicans — have opted to publicly finance their campaigns. But we can and must do more.

• Opinion

Getting past Michigan [Editorial]

While the Supreme Court decision in the Michigan affirmative action case was regrettable, there is still much colleges can do to boost diversity