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"Supreme Court", Guardian. It's a proper noun. We don't call your stuff the "UK house of commons", and that isn't a difference between British English and American English.
And it's not a typo, because you consistently did it through the whole article.
"Justice Department". Well, really, "Department of Justice", but whatever, people use that informally.
"Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals".
How is it that you stripped caps off of every proper noun referring to a government institution in the entire article, but still managed to capitalize "Starbucks" and "Workers United"?
EDIT: And they do it in another article too:
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/24/us-supreme-court-abortion-rights-emtala
But there they do capitalize the FDA in that article:
EDIT2: And they did capitalize the NLRB in the first article, so not every government institution:
EDIT3: And their counterparts at The Telegraph and the BBC are capitalizing the proper nouns for the same institutions:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33103973
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/04/22/supreme-court-homeless-fine-grants-pass-oregon-park-tents/
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2014/sep/12/-sp-how-to-make-a-complaint-about-guardian-or-observer-content
Go complain at their Editor.
Boy have I got some bad news
That's a capital C
Yes it is. Here's what I think someone concerned with propper capitalization of SCOTUS would not be keen to hear:
The Founding Fathers were not grammar and syntax authorities. Tal is correct in expecting more from a journalist. Writing is literally their profession.
https://www.ncbar.org/news/capitalization-for-practitioners-consistency-counts/
I'll bet you ten internet points that the guardian doesn't read this. Yes I failed to caps that just for fun
Fighting the good fight, my man
It's the guardian do you really expect them to grammar check their articles?
Who gives a shit? Do you have any idea how often I read German words written by English speakers which are fucked up beyond belief? But I acknowledge that the world doesn't revolve around my country or my language
Many people.
And as they said this isn't a foreign language issue.
waaaahhhh why won't the rest of the world pretend we're the only ones that matter we're important and special and the default that should always be assumed how dare you go against that waaahhh
That's not at all what they said.
But good effort trying to act like a child, I guess.
they complained that a british newspaper called the US supreme court exactly that instead of The Supreme Court even though we have our own supreme court and so do many other countries and so it's worth clarifying it's just a typical yank throwing a hissy fit when everyone doesn't pretend the world revolves around them