Conservapedia:Supreme Court Project

Welcome to the Supreme Court Project, which will harness the power of this collaborative site to analyze and explain the U.S. Supreme Court, its significance, its direction, and suggest legal approaches for change.

Current Justices

• Chief Justice John Roberts (since October 2005)
• Justice John Paul Stevens
• Justice Antonin Scalia
• Justice Anthony Kennedy
• Justice David Souter
• Justice Clarence Thomas
• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Justice Stephen Breyer
• Justice Samuel Alito (since January 2006)

Issues where the Court now has 5 votes, with the replacement by Justice Alito of Justice O'Connor's seat, to overturn liberal precedents:

• abortion (but probably not yet 5 votes to overturn Roe v. Wade)
• affirmative action
• campaign finance
• Establishment Clause
• Title IX, especially against retaliation claim established in Jackson v. Birmingham Bd. of Ed.

See Essay:Reversible Court Decisions

Pending Docket

Generally, all grants of certiorari by the end of January can be heard in the same term of the U.S. Supreme Court. Grants of certiorari that occur after February 1st are likely to heard in the following term beginning in October.

• Conservapedia analysis: 2007 Petitions 2007 Cert Granted

• Links to websites containing having filed briefs, but many are not kept up-to-date

• Oyez website listing of Cert. granted for 2007 Term NOTE THAT THIS LIST IS OFTEN OUT-OF-DATE

• Findlaw resource on Supreme Court briefs ALSO OUT-OF-DATE

Worst Decisions

• Essay: the 25 Worst Court Decisions

Issues

• precedents overturned by the Roberts Court
• recent decisions
• cases being appealed to the Court
• philosophies of the Justices
• prior decisions that can be overturned
• religion
• abortion
• private property
• Second Amendment
• evolution
• law enforcement
• pornography
• taxation
• sovereignty