Katie is a journalist and former lawyer at a large international law firm in Washington, D.C. As a journalist, she has covered Capitol Hill with WTOP, including Justice Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearing, as well as the Supreme Court with NPR’s Nina Totenberg. She hosts a political podcast called Words Matter. She also co-founded Circuit Breaker, a website that provided news and information about the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. As a lawyer, she practiced white collar defense and civil litigation with a focus on the Anti-Terrorism Act. She received dual degrees in political science and broadcast journalism from the University of Georgia and a J.D. from Georgetown Law. Katie is a longtime lover of Washington. If she is not solo traveling around the globe, you can often find her running down the mall with her pup. Follow her on Twitter @katieleebarlow and on TikTok @scotusblog.
Amy Coney Barrett navigated a truncated confirmation timeline with a COVID-19 outbreak in a GOP caucus that held a slim majority in the Senate. Brett Kavanaugh was hauled before the Senate Judiciary Committee a second time to address an allegation of sexual assault in high school.
Hundreds of demonstrators packed the plaza in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning to exercise their First Amendment rights over another constitutional guarantee — the right to have an abortion.
Justice Samuel Alito lambasted the media on Thursday for using the “sinister” term “shadow docket” to frame the court as “having been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways.” He delivered the criticism in a livestreamed, hour-long speech at the
President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court commission met publicly for the first time on Wednesday.
Few people get the chance to watch an oral argument at the Supreme Court. Art Lien is one of them. As an artist who has been sketching the court for more than four decades, Lien has attended – and studied – hundreds of arguments.
Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States Amy Coney Barrett took the judicial oath Tuesday morning to become the Supreme Court’s 115th justice, joining the bench at a time when the court is being asked to rule on pressing issues related to next week’s presidential election.
This article is part of a symposium on the jurisprudence of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Ten years before Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the landmark Second Amendment opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller crystallizing the Constitution’s guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms as an individual right, he was welcoming a young clerk to chambers by the name of Amy Coney Barrett.
The Republican plan to swiftly confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court is in disarray after three Republican senators – including two on the Senate Judiciary Committee – tested positive for the coronavirus.
President Donald Trump is expected to announce his nominee to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on Saturday at 5 p.m. EDT. Whomever Trump selects, the nomination is certain to trigger weeks of high-stakes procedural maneuvers as Republicans try to fast-track the nomination process and Democrats try to block it.
Justice Stephen Breyer kicked off Constitution Day on Thursday morning by urging law students to fulfill the Constitution’s promise through civic participation.