Clarence Thomas became an associate justice of the Supreme Court in October 1991. Former President George H.W. Bush appointed him to the Court to replace retiring Justice Thurgood Marshall, one of the most revered justices to ever sit on the…
Category: SCOTUS
June15
2024
2024
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Justice Reform | SCOTUS
The American Bar Association list Gideon V. Wainwright (1963) as one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s “landmark“ decisions. Gideon held that States must provide criminal defendants charged with serious crimes with an attorney if they cannot afford one. A serious…
Dec.27
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | SCOTUS
Billionaires buy justice, just as they buy everything else. They live by the business creed that everything and everyone has a price—even presidents, legislators, and Supreme Court justices.
Many have argued that Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is such…
Apr.21
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Corruption | SCOTUS
Earl Warren, a Republican, became U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice in October 1953 during President Dwight Eisenhower’s administration.
John Roberts, a Republican, became U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice in September 2005 during President George W. Bush’s administration.
Both Chief Justices…
Apr.21
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Corruption | SCOTUS
In a May 5, 2015 UCLA Law Review article, the late conservative Republican Utah senator, Orin G. Hatch, made this constitutional observation in an argument against the Affordable Care Act:
“From the early days of the Republic, a core component…
Apr.16
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Constitutional Law | SCOTUS
The Chief Justice John Roberts-led U.S. Supreme Court will have another opportunity to modify or overrule a longstanding precedent issued by the Court before his tenure as Chief Justice.
The case before the Court, Samia v. United States, involves a…
Apr.11
2023
2023
By an unusually narrow U.S. Senate confirmation vote of 52-48, Clarence Thomas became a U.S. Supreme Court justice on October 23, 1991.
During his over three-decade tenure on the nation’s highest court, Justice Thomas has accumulated more personal, legal, and…
Mar.27
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Constitutional Law | SCOTUS
Federalist Paper #78, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, said the need for an “independent judiciary” was “designed to be an intermediate body between the people and their legislature.”
The primary responsibility of the judiciary then…
May30
2022
2022
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law | SCOTUS
The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a criminal defendant the right to effective assistance of counsel at both the trial and appellate level. A defendant raising an ineffective assistance claim in a post-conviction proceeding must meet a two-prong…
Mar.27
2022
2022
The Preamble of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct for a lawyer’s responsibility for their “client’s position under the rules of the adversary system.”
That responsibility has no gray area. In the criminal arena, a lawyer must represent each…
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