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How Affirmative Action Lost at the Supreme Court

Preferential college admissions violated the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

Reason

Alabama’s defiant new voting map rejected by federal court — after Republicans ignored the Supreme Court’s directive to add a second majority-Black House district

In a rebuke of the Alabama legislature, a panel of three federal judges rejected on Sept. 5, 2023, the state’s proposed voting districts that failed to create a second district where Black voters could elect a political candidate of their choice.

The Conversation

Senator files ethics complaint against supreme court justice Samuel Alito

Sheldon Whitehouse writes to Chief Justice John Roberts about ‘several’ ethics violations, citing Wall Street Journal interview

The Guardian - US

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The Sticky Spaghetti School of Constitutional Law

Politicians are throwing laws at the wall and seeing what sticks.

Reason

How Alabama is defying the supreme court to discriminate against Black voters

In June, the US supreme court upheld a decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional map – but state Republicans ignored the mandate

The Guardian - US

Justice Clarence Thomas reports he took 3 trips on Republican donor’s plane last year

Thomas said he was complying with new guidelines for reporting travel, but he did not include any earlier travel at billionaire Harlan Crow’s expense, including a 2019 trip to Indonesia aboard his yacht.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fox News host questions why racist shootings haven’t stopped under Biden

‘He pledged to unite the country back in his inauguration speech, several times prior and after that, and yet horrific things like what happened over the weekend still happen’

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Woodstock Festival: 50 mind-blowing facts about the original celebration of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll

The Woodstock Festival became part of rock'n'roll folklore as half a million hippies descended on a farm in upstate New York in 1969

Louder

ChatGPT can get you through college, but there’s one essay it can’t help with—and it has to do with the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling

More colleges are asking applicants to discuss “identity” and “background” since the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action, but to write effectively, teens will need to do it themselves.

Fortune

‘Unprecedented, stunning, disgusting’: Clarence Thomas condemned over billionaire gifts

Calls for the supreme court justice to resign grow as new details of 38 more undeclared gifts and vacations from rich donors emerge

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court narrowly allows Biden’s ‘ghost gun’ regulations to continue

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the liberal Justices in keeping the regulations

The Independent UK

America's racial history: Truth matters

Most Americans believe we're a long way from Birmingham in 1963. But that history still fuels today's conflicts

Salon

Kagan contradicts Alito on SCOTUS

"It just can't be that the court is the only institution that somehow is not subject to checks and balances"

Salon

Ending affirmative action does nothing to end discrimination against Asian Americans

In two cases challenging the use of race in college admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the educational benefit of racial diversity is no longer what it once called a “compelling interest.”

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Samuel Alito opposition to ethics reform ‘unwelcome’ – leading Democrat

Dick Durbin, chair of Senate judiciary committee, criticizes supreme court justice in wake of billowing ethics scandals

Reason

Justice Alito's Interview in the Wall Street Journal

As a general rule, Supreme Court Justices speak through their opinions. From time to time, Justices will be "interviewed"by friendly interlocutors during public events. The screened questions are usually softballs, and even then, the Justices tend to avoid saying anything newsworthy. In recent years, perhaps the biggest outlier was Justice…

The Independent UK

AOC claps back at Justice Alito for saying Congress can’t have oversight of Supreme Court

Supreme Court justice criticised for flying to Alaska on billionaire’s jet

The Independent UK

Justice Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court

Justice Samuel Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court

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Alabama is not the first state to defy a Supreme Court ruling: 3 essential reads on why that matters

In its 5-4 Allen v. Milligan decision on June 8, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the state of Alabama to redraw its congressional voting districts and consider race as it made up the new districts. The court had found that the state’s political districts diluted the strength of Black…

The Conversation

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts uses conflicting views of race to resolve America's history of racial discrimination

In two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 summer recess, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote majority opinions that involved the use of race.

Tribune News Service

POINT: Colleges should solely consider merit in selecting students

On June 29, the Supreme Court delivered a 6-3 ruling that essentially prevents colleges from using affirmative action and race-based quotas in the college admissions acceptance process.

The Independent UK

Senate Judiciary panel to consider ethics rules for Supreme Court

The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote Thursday on a new ethics code for the Supreme Court, an attempt to respond to recent revelations about justices’ interactions with wealthy donors and others

Tribune News Service

Noah Feldman: As justices snipe, Supreme Court's image suffers

The Supreme Court justices are getting testy with one another. As the court’s conservative revolution proceeds, the tone of the court’s opinions is getting increasingly confrontational — and increasingly personal. Extreme decisions are provoking extreme reactions. The leak of the Dobbs opinion last year, and the court’s botched investigation into…

The Independent UK

Justice Kavanaugh seeks to dispel the notion that the Supreme Court is partisan

Justice Brett Kavanaugh points to the mixed decisions that emerged from the U_S_ Supreme Court this term as he seeks to dispel notions of a partisan high court, He told a judicial conference in Minnesota on Thursday that the high court is “an institution of law, not of politics, not…

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How the Supreme Court's conservative majority came to be

The 6-3 majority was solidified in former President Donald Trump's term, but its roots go back to the Bushes and the political circumstances of 1991 and 2005.

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