Joan Biskupic - CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst
Joan Biskupic
CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst
Joan Biskupic, CNN's Senior Supreme Court analyst, has covered the Supreme Court for more than twenty-five years and has written several books on the judiciary. She is the author of the recently published Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and its Historic Consequences.
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What Sandra Day O’Connor’s papers reveal about a landmark Supreme Court decision – and why it could be overturned soon
Apr 9, 2024
The newly opened papers of the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor reveal the internal deliberations of a groundbreaking Supreme Court case that gave US regulators significant latitude to protect the environment and public health – and show how the ruling almost never happened.
Justices Barrett and Kavanaugh overturned Roe v. Wade. Why they may save access to the abortion pill
Mar 27, 2024
Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett often link arms on cases, particularly when it comes to abortion and reproductive rights.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it opened the floodgates for abortion-related lawsuits
Mar 26, 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear its first abortion case since the 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade and upheaval of reproductive rights in America.
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Analyst reacts after Supreme Court allows controversial immigration law
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Mar 19, 2024
The Supreme Court cleared the way for Texas to immediately begin enforcing a controversial immigration law that allows state officials to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally. CNN senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic discusses.
Amy Coney Barrett disagreed with the majority over Trump, but admonished the liberals instead
Mar 5, 2024
Justice Amy Coney Barrett packed two very different messages into her one-page opinion on Monday as the Supreme Court declared states could not toss former President Donald Trump off the ballot.
Trump uses the slow legal system to his advantage. The Supreme Court is helping
Feb 29, 2024
The Supreme Court’s decision to hear Donald Trump’s claim that he should be shielded from criminal prosecution keeps the justices at the center of election-year controversy for several more months and means any verdict on Trump’s alleged subversion of the 2020 vote will not come before summer.
While eyes are on Trump, Supreme Court conservatives prepare to rewrite the rulebook
Feb 23, 2024
Contentious Supreme Court oral arguments this week offered a reminder that while the public focuses on the Donald Trump election cases, the court’s actions this spring will be equally consequential for an array of rules set in Washington governing American life.
John Roberts has a united court on Trump. Now comes the hard part
Feb 9, 2024
Soon after John Roberts took his seat at the center of the Supreme Court bench on Thursday, the cadence of the justices’ questioning suggested the chief justice would have an easy majority, if not unanimity, to reverse a Colorado ruling that blocked Donald Trump from the ballot.
How lawyers in the Trump ballot case are training for the Supreme Court arguments
Feb 2, 2024
Lawyer Jason Murray, taking the lead next week in the Supreme Court battle to keep Donald Trump off presidential ballots, has never argued before the justices.
Colorado voters emphasize January 6 violence as they urge Supreme Court to keep Trump off the ballot
Jan 26, 2024
The Colorado voters trying to disqualify Donald Trump from the state ballot told the Supreme Court on Friday that the violence the former president provoked on January 6, 2021, qualifies as an insurrection under the terms of the Constitution and bars him from holding future office.
The conservative legal world lines up behind Donald Trump at the Supreme Court
Jan 26, 2024
As Donald Trump wages a Supreme Court battle to stay on state presidential ballots, a potent contingent of the conservative legal world has united behind him.
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Analyst weighs in on Supreme Court allowing Biden admin to remove razor wire on border
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Jan 22, 2024
The Supreme Court is allowing US Border Patrol agents to remove razor wire deployed by Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott’s security initiative at the US-Mexico border while the state’s legal challenge to the practice plays out. CNN senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic discusses.
Trump’s appointees are poised to give conservatives another long-sought reversal
Jan 18, 2024
Wealthy business entities and conservative advocates have been building toward this Supreme Court moment for decades.
Neil Gorsuch has a grudge against federal agencies. He holds their fate in his hands
Jan 17, 2024
Business groups and conservative activists – including a network founded by Charles and David Koch helping to finance the challenge – say “Chevron deference” has led to an uncontrolled bureaucracy.
Here’s what the Supreme Court faces as justices discuss Trump’s eligibility
Jan 6, 2024
The US Supreme Court is now confronting an election case of unparalleled weight that will determine Donald Trump’s prospects to regain the White House and influence public regard for an increasingly embattled court.
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Analyst shares when Supreme Court will likely hear Trump appeal
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Jan 5, 2024
The US Supreme Court announced plans to review the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling removing former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot. CNN senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic has more.
About
Joan Biskupic, CNN’s Senior Supreme Court analyst, has covered the Supreme Court for more than twenty-five years and has written several books on the judiciary. She is the author of the recently published Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive to the Right and its Historic Consequences.
She is also the author of a biography of Chief Justice John Roberts (The Chief, spring 2019). Her previous books include Sandra Day O’Connor (2005), American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (2009) and Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice (2014).
Biskupic previously was an editor-in-charge for Legal Affairs at Reuters and, earlier, Supreme Court correspondent for the Washington Post and for USA Today. A graduate of Georgetown University law school, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism in 2015.
