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Social justice
fromSlate Magazine
5 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.
#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.
fromAdvocate.com
1 hour agoThe Supreme Court is taking up a case that could shut LGBTQ+ families out of preschool
The Catholic parishes argue that the nondiscrimination requirement forces them to choose between participating in a public benefit and adhering to their religious teachings about marriage and family.
NYC parents
Privacy technologies
fromAbove the Law
3 days ago438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway. - Above the Law
Age verification mandates for the internet are technically flawed, threaten privacy, and may cause more harm than good, according to 438 researchers from 32 countries.
#trump-administration
Right-wing politics
fromAbove the Law
2 days agoFormer Biglaw Partner Warns There Are No 'Guardrails' Left Around Trump - And Someone Is Taking Advantage - Above the Law
Ty Cobb warns that without experienced advisors, Trump's decisions may be manipulated by bad actors, raising concerns about foreign influence on U.S. policy.
Social justice
fromSlate Magazine
2 days agoClarence Thomas Just Gave a Speech Blaming Progressivism for Hitler. It Was Mostly Just Sad.
Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a speech attacking progressivism, linking it to historical atrocities and expressing grievances about criticism faced by principled individuals.
fromReadWrite
5 days agoKalshi cites Arizona ruling in Wisconsin Ho-Chunk Nation lawsuit
The Arizona court issued an order prohibiting any state enforcement efforts against CFTC-regulated designated contract markets ('DCMs') on the grounds that state gambling laws are preempted as applied to transactions on DCMs.
Law
US politics
fromSlate Magazine
1 week 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.
Cannabis
fromwww.npr.org
1 month agoSupreme Court wrestles with gun rights, marijuana, and the right to own a gun
The Supreme Court examined whether federal law prohibiting marijuana users from owning guns is constitutional under the Second Amendment, with the outcome potentially affecting gun control legislation.
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.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
2 months agoGovernment Urges Supreme Court to Deny AI Copyright Case, Emphasizing Narrow Question and Statutory Text
Current statute requires human authorship for copyright; recognizing autonomous AI as an author is unsupported, while human-AI collaboration questions remain unresolved.
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.
fromAbove the Law
2 months agoFederal Judge Reminds DHS That Court Orders Are Not Optional - Above the Law
The case centers on reimbursement requests submitted by local governments under federal migrant support grants. Those requests were filed before Homeland Security formally terminated the grants, and the law requires agencies to process reimbursements within a statutory 30-day window. Instead of paying up or offering a lawful explanation for denying the requests, the administration froze the funds and then argued that it no longer had to meet the reimbursement deadline because the grants were now in "closeout."
US politics
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