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Barrett: I Had to Explain My Bulletproof Vest to Son

She and fellow justice Kagan testify on Capitol Hill for more security money for Supreme Court

(Newser) - Congress heard rare testimony on Tuesday from two Supreme Court justices, and the subject wasn't legal theory—it was safety. Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett appeared before a House Appropriations subcommittee to defend the court's request for a sizable security boost, including more bodyguards for each justice, additional officers...

Barrett, Kagan to Appear on Capitol Hill

Lawmakers reportedly will press justices on security funding, ethics, and recent rulings

(Newser) - Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan are heading to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, and they're bringing more than a budget spreadsheet, CNN reports. The pair will make a rare appearance before lawmakers as the judiciary asks for a major boost in security funding—nearly $921 million...

Disclosures Show Justices Collecting From Their Books
Books Pay Off for Justices
Jun 29, 2026 7:30 PM CDT

Books Pay Off for Justices

Jackson tops court in outside income, Barrett made more from memoir than salary

(Newser) - Amy Coney Barrett's day job is on the Supreme Court, but her 2025 income was driven by a book. The justices' financial disclosures released Monday show Barrett pulled in nearly $850,000 last year from her legal memoir, Listening to the Law, on top of a $303,600 judicial...

Trump Says 2 Justices He Appointed 'Sicken Him'

'They're bad for our country,' he says of SCOTUS appointees who joined ruling on tariffs

(Newser) - President Trump isn't just unhappy with the Supreme Court, he's calling out two of his own picks to it. At a National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington on Wednesday, the president ripped Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett for joining a 6–3 ruling that struck...

Trump: Will Be a 'Complete Mess' if SCOTUS Nixes Tariffs

US will be 'screwed' if such a decision is handed down, president warns

(Newser) - President Trump is warning of economic chaos if the Supreme Court wipes out his signature global tariffs, with a decision expected as early as Wednesday. In a social media post , the president noted "WE'RE SCREWED" if the justices rule against him, arguing that undoing the duties would trigger...

SCOTUS' Liberals Are Far From United

Outnumbered, they're clashing on strategy: Kagan wants quiet persuasion, Jackson favors public dissent

(Newser) - The Supreme Court's three liberal justices are facing a crisis of strategy and unity as the court's conservative majority continues to reshape American law. Elena Kagan, once the architect of quiet coalition-building, has spent years resisting the urge to publicly rebuke her right-leaning colleagues, reports the New York ...

Coney Barrett Weighs In on a Third Trump Term

She cites the 22nd Amendment's limit on two terms to Brett Baier on Fox

(Newser) - As Amy Coney Barrett continues to sit for interviews for her new memoir, the Supreme Court justice has been fielding questions about the possibility of President Trump running for a third term . Monday night on Fox, for example, Brett Baier pointed out that "the 22nd Amendment says you can...

Amy Coney Barrett: Roe v. Wade Got It Wrong

In memoir, Supreme Court justice defends vote to overturn the abortion law

(Newser) - Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett defends the landmark vote to overturn Roe v. Wade in her forthcoming memoir. CNN got an advance look at Listening to the Law , in which Coney Barrett makes the case that the 1973 law "was getting ahead of the people" in regard...

Alito Wants to Move Quickly, but Barrett Slowing Him Down

NYT analysis looks at the rising influence of Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court

(Newser) - To be clear, Amy Coney Barrett is a conservative Supreme Court justice, and she "has moved the court's outcomes dramatically to the right and locked in conservative victories on gun rights, affirmative action and the power of federal agencies," writes Jodi Kantor in the New York Times ...

Supreme Court Blocks First Religious Public School in US

Justices deadlock 4-4 in Oklahoma case after Amy Coney Barrett recuses herself

(Newser) - A big ruling handed down by the Supreme Court on Thursday means Oklahoma won't be able to establish the first public religious school in the nation:
  • The court deadlocked 4-4, with Amy Coney Barrett recusing herself, reports the Washington Post . The tie means a lower-court ruling against the charter
...

At Supreme Court, an Unprecedented Move

5 justices recuse themselves from alleged plagiarism case following a new code of ethics

(Newser) - Ta-Nehisi Coates and Oprah Winfrey are celebrating a court victory delivered through an unprecedented move by the US Supreme Court. The court had been set to hear a copyright dispute involving claims that Coates' The Water Dancer, an Oprah's Book Club selection, plagiarized from Ralph W. Baker, Jr.'...

Trump Defends Coney Barrett Amid Backlash on the Right

'She's a very good woman,' says the president despite her key ruling against him

(Newser) - Amy Coney Barrett may be an unpopular figure in MAGA world these days, but President Trump himself is not joining the critics. "She's a very good woman," Trump told reporters Sunday when asked about the Supreme Court justice. "She's very smart, and I don't...

Trump Allies Turn on Amy Coney Barrett

Some conservatives are calling her a 'closet Democrat' after a recent ruling

(Newser) - Two conservative Supreme Court justices sided with the court's three liberal members in this week's decision on USAID payments —but Justice Amy Coney Barrett is taking a lot more flak than Chief Justice John Roberts. Some conservative commentators, calling Barrett a "closet Democrat," have suggested...

Barrett's Omelet Question on Ghost Guns Is Telling

It's a sign the Supreme Court may approve of tougher regulations on them

(Newser) - The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in one of its most closely watched cases of the new term—whether "ghost guns" can be regulated in much the same manner as regular guns. And while the decision won't be out for months, the court seems poised to side with...

Capitol Riot Defendant Held Over Threat to Barrett's Life

Officials say Bradley Scott Nelson hoped someone would kill justice after dissent

(Newser) - A Nevada man awaiting trial on charges that he stormed the US Capitol has been jailed after being accused of making threats directed at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and other public officials. Bradley Scott Nelson's "escalating rhetoric" is grounds for detaining him until a hearing, a...

Rift Is Emerging Among Conservatives on SCOTUS
Rift Is Emerging Among
Conservatives on SCOTUS
THE RUNDOWN
Jun 20, 2024 11:38 AM CDT

Rift Is Emerging Among Conservatives on SCOTUS

Barrett breaks with Thomas on 'history and tradition' approach

(Newser) - Last week's decision on a man's attempt to trademark the slogan "Trump too small" wasn't exactly the most momentous issue the Supreme Court has dealt with lately, but it exposed what appears to be a growing rift between the court's conservatives. Justice Amy Coney Barrett...

Trump Lawyer: Assassination 'Could Well Be' an Official Act

Key questions from the first hours of SCOTUS hearing

(Newser) - As Donald Trump sat in a different courtroom, the Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on whether the former president is immune from prosecution for acts committed while in office. The AP reports that at least five justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts, appeared skeptical of Trump's claims of "...

Barrett, 3 Liberals Disagreed With Part of Trump Ruling

She noted that SCOTUS hadn't been asked to address role of legislation in enforcing insurrection clause

(Newser) - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that Colorado can't kick Donald Trump off the ballot—but the court split 5-4 on one part of the ruling, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett siding with the court's three liberal justices. The court did not address whether Trump had violated the...

Barrett: My Time on the Bench Has Had 'Its Ups and Downs'

Supreme Court justice says it would be a 'good idea' for ethics code to be put in place for high court

(Newser) - As headlines continue to emerge about various Supreme Court justices , talk of implementing an ethics code for the nation's highest court has emerged, including from some of the justices themselves. Now, Justice Amy Coney Barrett is weighing in, and she appears to be a proponent of such oversight. "...

Barrett Says She's 'Acquired a Thick Skin' on SCOTUS

'Public criticism kind of comes with the job'

(Newser) - It's been almost three years since Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the third of Donald Trump's three nominees, joined the Supreme Court and she says she's developed a "thick skin" in that time amid increasing criticism of the court. "I think that justices and all judges...

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