Supreme Court Splits 5-4 on Rooker-Feldman Doctrine

Three conservative justices join two liberals in shocking Supreme Court split

An unusual Supreme Court coalition emerged on Thursday, June 18, when three conservative justices joined two liberal colleagues to deliver a major ruling on the limits of federal court authority. In T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas sided with liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and...

Clarence Thomas and Two Fellow Conservatives Form Unexpected Majority with Two Liberals in SCOTUS Decision

Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh joined with liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson in a 5-4 decision upholding the jurisdiction of state courts […] The post Clarence Thomas and Two Fellow Conservatives Form Unexpected Majority with Two Liberals in SCOTUS Decision appeared first on The Western Journal.

Supreme Court Splits 5-4 on Rooker-Feldman Doctrine

Three of the Supreme Court's conservative justices broke from their usual allies and joined two liberal colleagues to uphold a longstanding limit on federal court power, delivering a 5-4 ruling that scrambled the court's familiar ideological map. Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas sided with Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson in T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, holding that feder…