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Social justice
fromSlate Magazine
3 days agoThe Supreme Court Has a Chance to Revolutionize Its Approach to the Law
Supreme Court rulings on Reconstruction Amendments will significantly impact voting rights and protections for marginalized groups, particularly Black Americans and transgender individuals.
Social justice
fromSlate Magazine
3 days agoThe Supreme Court Has a Chance to Revolutionize Its Approach to the Law
Supreme Court rulings on Reconstruction Amendments will significantly impact voting rights and protections for marginalized groups, particularly Black Americans and transgender individuals.
Non-profit organizations
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 year agoGay Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may have helped create a constitutional crisis - LGBTQ Nation
Elon Musk's team gained unauthorized access to the federal payment system, threatening USAID operations and raising concerns about national security and economic stability.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days agoWhat is the new EU bill and could it give UK ministers Henry VIII-type powers?
The government will introduce a bill with a so-called dynamic alignment mechanism that will allow the government to align UK standards as the EU evolves its own rules. This mechanism enables quick implementation of changes without the need for a new bill each time.
EU data protection
#birthright-citizenship
NYC parents
fromSlate Magazine
1 month agoThe Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Decision Hinges on a Case You've Never Heard Of
The 1844 Lynch v. Clarke case, involving an Irish child born in New York, may determine whether millions of American-born children of undocumented immigrants retain birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
NYC parents
fromSlate Magazine
1 month agoThe Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Decision Hinges on a Case You've Never Heard Of
The 1844 Lynch v. Clarke case, involving an Irish child born in New York, may determine whether millions of American-born children of undocumented immigrants retain birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
fromABA Journal
4 weeks agoFederal judges speak out about threats becoming 'ordinary'
"What's most problematic is that the extraordinary has become ordinary. It's just a matter of course now that when you issue an opinion that some people don't like, you're going to get threats, you're going to get death threats, and that is obviously problematic on many levels."
Law
Right-wing politics
fromThe Nation
1 month agoWhy Does the Supreme Court Treat Trump Like a "Regular" President?
The Supreme Court applies the presumption of regularity doctrine to Trump, assuming good faith and proper conduct despite evidence of illegal and unconstitutional motivations, creating a fictional version of the president divorced from reality.
fromemptywheel
1 month agoMixing The Mixed Constitution - emptywheel
Burke's was a broadside that not only excoriated the social upheavals effected by the French revolutionaries and (by extension) commended by Marx, but the continual economic and social instability prized by modern liberal economic philosophy and practice. Against a new class of elites-mainly, an alliance between ideological progressive theorists and a rising financial oligarchy-Burke urged protection of the stability, tradition, and social continuities vital for the flourishing of ordinary people.
Left-wing politics
fromBig Think
1 month agoHow the U.S. Constitution protects liberty from the powerful's dark impulses
The real Führer is always a judge. Out of Führerdom flows judgeship. One who wants to separate the two from each other or puts them in opposition to each other would have the judge be either the leader of the opposition or the tool of the opposition and is trying to unhinge the state with the help of the judiciary.
History
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month agoThe Rule Of Law Joins America's Dead Pets On The Rainbow Bridge - Above the Law
Trump attorney John Lauro claimed the DOJ improved under Attorney General Pam Bondi, contradicting legal observers who view current conditions as a constitutional crisis threatening prosecutorial independence.
US politics
fromSlate Magazine
1 month agoThe Supreme Court Just Heeded One of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Sharpest Dissents
The Supreme Court unanimously refused to immediately revoke Temporary Protected Status for over 350,000 immigrants from Haiti and Syria, instead allowing full judicial review while maintaining their legal protections.
Law
frompatentlyo.com
1 month agoJudge Newman Asks the Supreme Court to Intervene: Framing Judicial Independence as a Constitutional Imperative
Judge Pauline Newman, barred from judicial duties since 2023 without impeachment or disability finding, petitioned the Supreme Court to challenge the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act's bar on reviewing judicial council orders.
Law
fromThe Nation
1 month agoJamie Raskin Just Told John Roberts: "The Emperor Has No Clothes"
Representative Raskin told federal judges that threats against them stem from public misunderstanding of judicial roles, urging the judiciary to clarify that judges interpret law rather than implement political preferences.
#judicial-independence
Law
fromABA Journal
1 month agoNearly 200 former judges denounce claim that courts are ignoring Supreme Court orders
Over 175 former federal and state judges denounce Trump administration claims that district courts are ignoring Supreme Court orders, calling such attacks an extraordinary assault on the judiciary.
US politics
fromwww.amny.com
1 month agoOp-Ed | The Trump administration believes that it has the right to decide what the rule of law is | amNewYork
A federal judge invalidated the Trump administration's policy of deporting undocumented immigrants to third countries rather than their home countries, ruling it violates U.S. law protecting against torture and persecution.
US politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month agoJudge blocks Trump's attempt to restrict congressional visits to ICE detention centers for the third time
A federal judge blocked DHS policy requiring congressional notice before ICE detention center visits, ruling it likely violates budget restrictions and congressional oversight authority.
fromEmptywheel
2 months agoThe Unstated Constitutional Problems With Obama "Using the 14th"
The Founders, in creating and nurturing our system of governance by and through the Constitution provided separate and distinct branches of government, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial and, further, provided for intentional, established and delineated checks and balances so that power was balanced and not able to be usurped by any one branch tyrannically against the interest of the citizenry.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoDemocrats have a constitutional power they aren't using to fight back: state resolutions | Sidney Blumenthal
Democratic state legislatures can revive pre-17th Amendment orders of instruction to pressure senators and counter attempts to impose a police state.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months agoRepublican Joins With Dems on Constitutional Amendment to Give Congress Power to Reject Trump Pardons
A proposed constitutional amendment would let Congress review and potentially nullify presidential pardons via a two-thirds congressional vote within 60 days.
fromAbove the Law
2 months agoDOJ Attacks Judge, Claims Judicial Immunity For Itself - Above the Law
If you are a lawyer, are interested in being an AUSA, and support President Trump and anti-crime agenda, DM me. We need good prosecutors. And DOJ is hiring across the country. Now is your chance to join the mission and do good for our country.- Chad Mizelle (@chad_mizelle) January 31, 2026
US politics
US politics
fromwww.amny.com
3 months agoHas the constitutional order failed? Experts suggest U.S. is witnessing institutional collapse at New York state bar summit amNewYork
The U.S. has shifted from a constitutional crisis to systemic constitutional failure characterized by institutional breakdown across all three branches.
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