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SCOTUS plays dumb about the public's ire

It's not just the useless "code of ethics" — the Dobbs decision revealed the real life impact of an imperious court

Salon

Building the mandate for MAGA's revenge

As Trump raved about revenge on "vermin," top adviser Stephen Miller went public with plans for concentration camps

Salon

The Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics, but it has no means of enforcement

The new rules leave compliance up to each justice. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor have been under scrutiny for gifts, benefits, travel received from outside sources.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Supreme Court hears arguments in veteran’s case that could open up additional GI Bill benefits

Several justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts, seemed sympathetic toward James Rudisill, a decorated Army veteran who says the VA cut short his benefits and thwarted his dream of attending Yale’s divinity school.

Chicago Sun-Times

"Judges Have Long Deferred to Academe. That's Changing."

A very interesting article by Prof. Steve Sanders (Indiana), who is also an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a scholar of sexual orientation and the law; it's in the Chronicle of Higher Education, but also available without the need for registration here. An excerpt: During the Red Scare of…

Reason

High court seems likely to uphold law banning guns for accused domestic abusers

If so, the decision would be a small retreat from the Supreme Court's sweeping decision on gun rights last year.

WEKU

Supreme court leans towards upholding US gun ban for domestic abusers

Justices appear to be against further unravelling of gun laws as DoJ makes passionate call for preservation of 1994 firearms ban

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The Supreme Court takes up a case that again tests the limits of gun rights

The Supreme Court is hearing its first case about guns since last year’s decision that called into question numerous gun control laws

The Independent UK

Fridge magnate: John Roberts, the man who founded AO World ‘for a bet’

The boss who sells us appliances by the thousand is chilled about Mike Ashley’s stake in the company, but hot on recycling and the need for the rich to give back

The Guardian - UK

Amy Coney Barrett says she supports an ethics code for Supreme Court justices

Several justices have faced ethics questions in recent months, but the Supreme Court has so far resisted imposing a code of ethics.

WEKU

Amy Coney Barrett calls ethics code for scandal-hit supreme court ‘a good idea’

Conservative justice nominated by Trump offers no timeline for implementation or details of what code would contain

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court Will Hear This Texas Woman's Challenge to a Politically Motivated Arrest

Sylvia Gonzalez, an anti-establishment politician, spent a day in jail for allegedly concealing a petition that she organized.

Reason

The Supreme Court avoided disaster when a hunk of marble fell in a courtyard used by justices

The Supreme Court avoided a catastrophic accident last year when a massive piece of marble at least two feet in length crashed to the ground in an interior courtyard used by the justices and their aides

The Independent UK

Supreme Court conservatives doubt South Carolina map discriminates against Black voters

A federal court already rejected the state’s congressional map. Conservative justices are sceptical

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The US supreme court is facing a crisis of legitimacy

There’s a growing sense among many Americans that the Roberts court with its 6-3 hard-right supermajority is irrevocably broken

WEKU

Consumer watchdog agency's fate at Supreme Court could nix other agencies too

Payday lenders argue that the CFPB's funding structure is unconstitutional because it's not funded by money appropriated by Congress. The argument threatens the existence of other agencies, too.

The Guardian - US

Biden worries ‘extreme’ supreme court can’t be relied on to uphold rule of law

Trump installed three conservative justices, tilting the court 6-3 to the right, which delivered significant victories for conservatives

The Independent UK

The Supreme Court will take up abortion and gun cases in its new term while ethics concerns swirl

The Supreme Court is returning to a new term with familiar topics such as guns and abortion, as well as concerns about ethics swirling around the justices

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The Conversation

Supreme Court justices' ideologies don't always fit 'liberal' and 'conservative' labels

When the Supreme Court is in the news for overturning a long-standing precedent or violating standard judicial ethics, the news is often accompanied by the description of one or more justices as liberal or conservative.

The Guardian - US

Chief justice urged to make Alito and Thomas step aside in megadonor cases

More than 40 watchdog groups call on John Roberts to force US supreme court justices to step aside after ethics scandals

The Conversation

US Supreme Court refuses to hear Alabama’s request to keep separate and unequal political districts

For the second time in three months, the U.S. Supreme Court has rebuffed Alabama’s attempts to advance its legislature’s congressional maps that federal courts have ruled harm Black voters.

The Guardian - US

Revelations of Clarence Thomas’s Koch links stoke supreme court reform calls

Senate judiciary panel member Whitehouse says ‘Oh, my’ after report links justice to hard-right Koch network

Reason

Professor Akhil Amar, On His Podcast, Responds to Attorney General Mukasey and the Tillman-Blackman Position

Section 3 civility outside and inside Yale Law School.

Al Jazeera

Corporate Australia fails to sway public as Indigenous Voice faces defeat

Australian businesses’ support for the Voice is doing little to boost the flagging fortunes of the ‘yes’ campaign.

WEKU

Alabama asks Supreme Court to aid a delay after June loss in voting case

Alabama is once again asking the Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional districts. In essence, the state is fighting a court order that the high court upheld just months ago.

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