Recent Supreme Court decision to ban Affirmative Action sparks discussion about Equity in College Admissions. BY VIVIANA SMITH, NEWS EDITOR Historic decisions have recently been made by the U.S. Supreme Court. From the Overturning of Roe v. Wade to the…
SCOTUS rolls back on Affirmative Action. What’s next? BY ADITI GOEL, STAFF WRITER It doesn’t matter if you’ve been reading the news or not, the latest U.S. Supreme Court decision is an important one to understand. On June 29, the…
STUDENTS REACT TO SUPREME COURT DECISION BY ERICA MUNISAR, STAFF WRITER Americans stopped everywhere on June 24 when the Supreme Court made the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The court case had legalized abortion in America for the past 49…
Jan. 6 ties of Justice Thomas’ wife potentially strains Supreme Court BY KEVIN LIGHTNER, STAFF WRITER On March 24, news broke that Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, had exchanged around 29 text messages with then-chief…
Mason students express opposition and support for Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court justice BY SUDIKSHA KOCHI STAFF WRITER After much pushing by Republicans, the Senate voted to confirm Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the…
BY ARJIT ROSHAN CONTRIBUTOR Last week, my friend Alex Madajian, a thoughtful staff writer for Fourth Estate, wrote a piece on how Democrats expanding the Supreme Court would be the very kind of norm violation that they’ve accused Trump of…
BY ALEX MADAJIAN STAFF WRITER When asked what makes America exceptional, the late Justice Antonin Scalia responded by saying: “If you think that a bill of rights is what sets us apart [from other countries,] you’re crazy … the real…
BY SAVANNAH MARTINCIC STAFF WRITER Just a week after the notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, President Trump announced his official nomination for the vacant Supreme Court seat: federal appeals court judge Amy Coney Barrett. According to a questionnaire Barrett submitted…
BY DOMINIC PINO OPINION EDITOR After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, tributes immediately poured forth. The Washington Post front page described her as a “pioneer devoted to equality,” and nearly every other newspaper printed a variation on that theme. These tributes…
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to become a visiting professor at Mason’s law school BY LAUREN SULLIVAN, INVESTIGATIVE EDITOR AND DANA NICKEL, NEWS EDITOR According to an anonymous source within Mason’s Office of the Provost, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh…