The report stated that, unlike the Supreme Court, lower courts are “engaged in a bipartisan fight for the rule of law.”
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SCOTUS Has Given Trump Favorable Rulings in 90 Percent of Cases, Report Finds Read Post »
President Donald Trump is demanding that the Justice Department transfer $230 million in taxpayer dollars into his own personal bank account. He can do this, because thanks to the Supreme Court’s recent decisions, the executive branch could accurately be described by King Louis XIV—L’état, c’est Trump. When Trump says this is his decision to make, he’s […]
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A private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.
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Will the Supreme Court Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity? Read Post »
The Supreme Court, with its six-to-three Republican-appointed majority, appears ready to kneecap what remains of the Voting Rights Act’s protections for minority political representation. During Wednesday’s oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais, at least five conservative justices seemed ready to enfeeble the seminal civil rights law such that it will no longer stop white majorities […]
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Republican Justices Appear Poised to Destroy What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act Read Post »
If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is dismantled, the impact will reshape political power across the US, experts say.
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SCOTUS Case Could Destroy Voting Rights Act and Cement GOP Control of House Read Post »
The current Supreme Court, helmed by Chief Justice John Roberts, has been focused on chipping away at civil rights laws and policies for 20 years. On Tuesday, the justices will hear oral arguments in a case that could represent not just another chip, but a fatal blow to the load-bearing pillar of American multi-racial democracy: […]
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Voting Rights Are on the Supreme Court’s Chopping Block Read Post »
Rulings on the Supreme Court’s “emergency docket” foreshadow its abiding deference to Trump.
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As SCOTUS Enters a New Term, These Cases May Grant Trump Unbridled Authority Read Post »
They lost their case for a constitutional right to climate protection. Now they’re suing the government again.
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Youth Climate Leaders Test New Legal Strategy to Counter Fossil Fuel Expansion Read Post »
Trump bragged about his administration seeking to ban flag burning, which is protected speech.
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Trump Brags That He “Took the Freedom of Speech Away” From Protesters Read Post »
Since the early 2010s, amid a sea change of public acceptance of LGBTQ people, state after state banned the use of conversion therapy—the debunked, harmful practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity—on children and teenagers. And for just as long, a tiny contingent of therapists on the fringes of their […]
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The outcome of “Chiles v. Salazar” could have major implications for conversion therapy bans across the country.
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Will SCOTUS Greenlight Conversion Therapy Even Though the UN Calls It “Torture”? Read Post »
Perhaps the most brazenly illegal action of President Donald Trump’s second term so far took place on his first day in office: an order to deny birthright citizenship to thousands of newborns. Within months, the question had reached the Supreme Court. But rather than affirm the right to birthright citizenship, which is plainly enshrined in […]
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