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Mar 11, 2024
News take: The right to privacy
It is tattered but still a target. More at Vox. At least one judge, moreover, has already weaponized the right to privacy to undermine...
Jan 15, 2024
News take: Are anti-homeless laws cruel and unusual? SCOTUS will decide
Use your imagination to figure out how homeless people are supposed to deal with laws like the Grants Pass, Oregon, ordinance at issue...
Jan 2, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court invited Satan into public schools
Satan Clubs are popping up in public schools, thanks to U.S. Supreme Court decisions aimed at helping conservative Christians. Those...
Dec 13, 2023
SCOTUS walking into a political mess with Trump immunity appeal
From CNN: From beginning to end, the Supreme Court’s handling of the case is bound to be closely scrutinized. Public opinion polls show...
Dec 6, 2023
SCOTUS rejects disability case as moot; Clarence Thomas feigns shock at docket manipulation
As if he's never welcomed it... From Law & Crime: Thomas warned that SCOTUS‘ refusal to decide the question before the justices...
Nov 18, 2023
Biden nominates five more for federal judgeships
The push for diversity continues. Check it out at ABC.
Nov 14, 2023
Look! A SCOTUS ethics code! Without any enforcement mechanism!
The eight-page code says the justices “should comply” with a set of lower court regulations that limit what gifts federal judges and...
Nov 10, 2023
For folks who say the justices did nothing wrong...
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee force a delay in subpoenaing Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow, financial benefactors of SCOTUS...
Nov 1, 2023
Senate panel wants to hear from Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow
The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to learn more about their gift-giving to SCOTUS Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. “I will...
Oct 28, 2023
No-name, know-nothing House speaker is a bigger threat than the obviously wacky
From Slate: (Speaker Mike) Johnson is thus the terrifying embodiment of two anodyne faces that give cover to the worst forms of MAGA...
Oct 28, 2023
What's good for the goose is not nearly good enough for Clarence Thomas
As reported by Business Insider India. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ruled this year that Joe Biden was wrong when he tried to...
Oct 25, 2023
Florida seeks to reduce parental rights when it comes to drag shows
From Bloomberg law: Because it is fine for parents to determine what other parents' kids can read but not what is appropriate...
Sep 26, 2023
Clarence Thomas continues to break through ethical boundaries
Beyond the pale. Playing at a club for powerful boys with the Koch Brothers. Which he didn't report. Again. Coincidence that he switched...
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