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fromSlate Magazine
11 hours agoOne Justice Just Took Surprise Aim at Brett Kavanaugh. There May Be a Bigger Strategy at Play.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticizes Justice Kavanaugh's support for race-based detentions, highlighting his lack of understanding of the impact on affected individuals.
fromSlate Magazine
16 hours agoNorth Carolina Republicans Are Trying to Give One of the Country's Most Partisan Judges a Frightening New Power
The proposal is the North Carolina GOP's latest attack on the state bar, a government agency that regulates lawyers. If this proposal becomes law, the same Republicans who have targeted Democratic justices with bogus ethics charges will control the committee that decides when lawyers violate ethics rules.
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fromEsquire
3 days agoLeonard Leo Is Still Trying to Crush His (Imaginary) Enemies with Disgusting Amounts of Money
A ProPublica investigation has found that most of these bills are part of a coordinated effort, orchestrated by a constellation of groups that share staff or have funding ties to the prominent conservative activist Leonard Leo.
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Higher education
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days agoFederal judge halts White House effort to collect university data on applicants' race
A federal judge halted data collection efforts by the Trump administration regarding race in college admissions, citing rushed implementation and potential privacy risks.
Higher education
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days agoFederal judge halts White House effort to collect university data on applicants' race
A federal judge halted data collection efforts by the Trump administration regarding race in college admissions, citing rushed implementation and potential privacy risks.
fromLGBTQ Nation
4 days agoSouth Carolina Republicans demand Supreme Court overturn marriage equality - LGBTQ Nation
A group of 12 Republicans in the South Carolina House of Representatives introduced H-5501, a concurrent resolution that calls on the state to 'reject the Supreme Court of the United States' Obergefell decision and to call on the Supreme Court to reverse Obergefell and restore the natural law definition of marriage.'
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fromAbove the Law
1 month agoJustice Gorsuch: Originalism Requires We Recall That The Founders Knew How To F-ing Party - Above the Law
Justice Gorsuch argues that founding-era 'habitual drunkard' laws cannot justify modern firearm restrictions for drug users, citing evidence that Founders consumed far more alcohol than modern standards would classify as habitual use.
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fromAbove the Law
1 month agoJustice Gorsuch: Originalism Requires We Recall That The Founders Knew How To F-ing Party - Above the Law
Justice Gorsuch argues that founding-era 'habitual drunkard' laws cannot justify modern firearm restrictions for drug users, citing evidence that Founders consumed far more alcohol than modern standards would classify as habitual use.
Intellectual property law
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
9 years agoIs the Supreme Court breathtakingly dishonest or just completely clueless?
The Supreme Court established a two-part test for copyright protection of artistic features on useful articles: the feature must be perceivable as separate art and qualify as protectable work independently.
History
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month agoToday in History: February 13, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia found dead
Feb. 13 marks multiple notable historical events including high-profile deaths, groundbreaking trials, wartime actions, political controversies, and cultural premieres across the 20th and 21st centuries.
US politics
fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks 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.
US politics
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks agoDonald Trump Has Totally Not Dementia-Addled Thousand-Word Meltdown About Supreme Court - Above the Law
During major global crises and government shutdown, the president spent late Sunday night posting a lengthy Truth Social rant criticizing the Supreme Court's tariff decision while praising justices who sided with him.
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fromAbove the Law
1 month agoAfter Years Of 'Hold My Beer' Moments, Supreme Court Confidence Hits New Low - Above the Law
Supreme Court public confidence has reached a historic low of 22%, down from 52% before Bush v. Gore, reflecting decades of declining trust due to perceived partisan decision-making.
fromAbove the Law
1 month agoHow Trump's True Believer Judges Are Warping The Federal Courts - Above the Law
Trump wins 69% of cases before Trump-appointed district judges. Now compare that to: 21% win rate before non-Trump Republican appointees and 38.6% win rate before Democratic appointees. Earlier Republican-appointed judges rule against Trump at a rate approaching four out of five cases. That means Trump's 69% success rate before his own appointees isn't some partisan alignment, but rather a notable statistical anomaly.
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fromBusiness Insider
2 months agoSupreme Court justices expressed frustration with 'hurried' Trump administration handling of Lisa Cook case
Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices expressed wariness with what Justice Samuel Alito described as a "hurried" attempt from the Trump administration to oust Lisa Cook from her position as a Federal Reserve board governor - and then to rush her case to the high court when lower courts allowed her to keep her post. Several members of the Republican-appointed majority also expressed sharp disagreement with the Trump administration's claim that judges lack the authority to review a president's power to fire
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fromAbove the Law
1 month agoEven A Trump Judge Knows We're In The Middle Of A Constitutional Crisis - Above the Law
ICE's operations at the Whipple Federal Building violate detainees' constitutional rights through opaque transfers, inadequate legal notice, and dismissive government evidence.
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