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Scholastic Books should stop buckling to rightwing bullies

Librarians now can hit the ‘bigot button’ for their school book fairs. But the publisher’s ham-fisted move is sure to increase sales

The Guardian - US

Radical SCOTUS is "not an accident"

Salon talks to the Emmy-winning documentarian about SCOTUS corruption, Mitch McConnell and the court's rich history

Salon

Clarence Thomas recuses from Supreme Court case on House Jan. 6 panel - Roll Call

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas bowed out of a Jan. 6-related case at the center of a congressional committee’s power to investigate.

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National Cathedral replaces windows honoring Confederacy with stained-glass homage to racial justice

The landmark Washington National Cathedral has unveiled new stained-glass windows with a theme of racial justice

The Independent UK

‘You want to think America is better’: can the supreme court be saved?

Documentarian Dawn Porter’s expansive new series Deadlocked looks back at the history of an institution that has shaped the US for better and, more recently, worse

The Guardian - US

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson urges Americans to confront ‘uncomfortable’ history of racist violence

Her address in Alabama commemorates a white supremacist attack that galvanised the civil rights movement

The Independent UK

Chicago native Minyon Moore to chair 2024 Democratic Convention in Chicago

Minyon Moore got her start in politics in Chicago. She worked in Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign, in the Clinton White House and helped usher Ketanji Brown Jackson through her Supreme Court confirmation.

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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.

The Conversation

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…

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The Dwindling Jewish Representation And Evolving Composition Of The U.S. Supreme Court

Diversity on the Supreme Court: A changing landscape of justices from all backgrounds and walks of life.

Zenger

Supreme Court dissents and rejoinders, with respect and disrespect

Feelings seem raw at the court, certainly for the court's three liberal justices, who were on the losing end of some of the court's biggest cases this term, but also for the conservatives.

WEKU

Stephen L. Carter: For Ketanji Brown Jackson, the law is in the details

With the end of the Supreme Court’s 2022 term, what have we learned about the most junior justice? To some, Ketanji Brown Jackson has been a reliable vote for the liberal coalition; others contend that she’s a swing vote with a tendency to surprise her fans by joining the court’s…

Tribune News Service

Ted Frank on Justice Jackson's Dubious Claim about Infant Mortality among Black Americans

Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal: In a dissent from last week's ruling against racial preferences in college admissions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson enumerated purported benefits of "diversity" in education. "It saves lives," she asserts. "For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that…

Reason

Robin Abcarian: On affirmative action, Justice Jackson blasts her colleagues' 'let-them-eat-cake obliviousness'

There is no way around this: The Supreme Court's split decision overturning affirmative action in college admissions is a perfect example of how racial diversity enriches us, and why it should be enshrined as a goal in our laws.

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Purple June

With Justice Kavanaugh by his side, the Chief Justice is back in control.

The Independent UK

In 370 days, Supreme Court conservatives dash decades of abortion and affirmative action precedents

Overturning Roe v. Wade and affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement for decades

The Independent UK

The Supreme Court just issued its biggest rulings of the year. Here's what you need to know.

The Supreme Court just finished issuing its biggest decisions of the term

The Guardian - US

Supreme court leaves intact Mississippi law disenfranchising Black voters

Court turns away case on law implemented over a century ago with explicit goal of preventing Black people from voting

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Supreme Court blocks Biden's student loan forgiveness plan

The $10,000 to $20,000 debt cancelation plan has been controversial since it was announced last August.

The Guardian - US

US supreme court justices Thomas and Jackson sharpen pens in combative opinions

The court’s two Black justices stand poles apart ideologically in their stinging, personal opinions on race-conscious admissions

Fortune

How the Supreme Court's gutting of affirmative action will roll back progress on diversity in the workplace

Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor see that impact.

Axios

Affirmative action exposes SCOTUS' raw nerves

There have always been impassioned dissents, but it's rare for the justices to argue the way regular people argue.

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court’s Black justices spar over affirmative action

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court’s two Black justices sparred over the meaning and impact of race in dueling opinions on the majority’s decision to curtail affirmative action programs at universities.

Chicago Sun-Times

Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action will cause more harm than good

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas disappoints —again.

Chicago Sun-Times

Supreme Court takes America backwards in striking down race in college admissions

Simply declaring that schools should now be color-blind won’t make it real — or fair. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote as much in a separate dissent, “[D]eeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”

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