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Democracy can't easily penalize lying

Lies are protected by the First Amendment to safeguard democracy, constitutional law scholar says

Salon

George Santos: A democracy can't easily penalize lies by politicians

George Santos is not the first politician to have lied, but the fables he told to get elected to Congress may be in a class by themselves. Historian Sean Wilentz remarked that while embellishments happen, Santos’ lies are different – “there is no example like it” in American history, Wilentz…

The Conversation

What Democrats achieved – and didn’t – in two years controlling Congress

From same-sex marriage protections to veterans’ aid, Joe Biden’s party used its thin majority to deliver many campaign promises

The Guardian - US

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‘Force to be reckoned with’: Ketanji Brown Jackson shines in first week

The newest supreme court justice has wasted no time in making her presence felt, earning praise from court observers

The Guardian - US

How some doctors avoid drug charges

A new ruling on opioid prescription cases means doctors who face charges might be able to escape harsher punishment

Salon

Supreme Court welcomes the public again, and a new justice

The Supreme Court is beginning its new term after a break for summer

The Independent UK

Supreme Court poised to keep marching to right in new term

The Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday at a time of diminished public confidence and justices sparring openly over the institution’s legitimacy

The Independent UK

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Breyer says leak of Supreme Court draft to overturn Roe v Wade was ‘very damaging’ as leaker remains unknown

Now retired, former justice said he did ‘everything I could’ to persuade court against revoking constitutional right to abortion

The Independent UK

Ex-Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer refuses to condemn Ginni Thomas over efforts to overturn election

Wife of Justice Clarence Thomas agreed this week to sit down for a voluntary interview with the January 6 committee

The Independent UK

Ex-Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer says he’s ‘very sorry’ about abortion decision

‘Was I happy about it? Not for an instant’, former Justice Stephen Breyer says

The Independent UK

Breyer: Supreme Court leaker still appears to be a mystery

The Supreme Court doesn’t appear to have found the person who leaked a draft of the court’s major abortion decision last spring

The Independent UK

Breyer: "I am very, very, very sorry" Roe was overturned

"Was I happy about it? Not for an instant. Did I do everything I could to persuade people? Of course, of course."

Axios

Doctors rush to use Supreme Court ruling to escape opioid charges

Dr. Nelson Onaro conceded last summer that he’d written illegal prescriptions, although he said he was thinking only of his patients. From a tiny clinic in Oklahoma, he doled out hundreds of opioid pills and dozens of fentanyl patches with no legitimate medical purpose.

Tribune News Service

New York enacts new gun restrictions in response to supreme court decision

After court overturned 1911 New York law, state lawmakers produced act to create ‘gun-free zones’ and strengthen gun control measures

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Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer joins National Constitution Center board as co-chair

PHILADELPHIA — Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has been named the honorary co-chair of the of the National Constitution Center’s board of trustees, where he joins Justice Neil Gorsuch, who has served in that position since 2019.

The Independent UK

Breyer, Gorsuch join to promote education about Constitution

Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has become the honorary co-chairman of a nonpartisan group devoted to education about the Constitution

Axios

Stephen Breyer says America goes the wrong way "from time to time"

Breyer made no mention of the string of conservative rulings the Supreme Court issued at the end of its last term.

Tribune News Service

Scalia’s legacy lives on in Supreme Court’s abortion, gun cases

WASHINGTON — The seeds of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings on guns and abortion lie in the legal theories of a justice who died six years ago.

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The Guardian - US

Bloodied but unbowed: liberal justices wield dissents as weapon of resistance

The three justices may be in the minority, but their opinions are sounding an alarm that equal rights are under threat by the new rightwing supermajority of the supreme court

The Conversation

Confidence in the Supreme Court is declining – but there is no easy way to oversee justices and their politics

Recent evidence showing that Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent at least 29 text messages to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to help overturn the 2020 election has reignited a long-simmering debate about judicial ethics and the nation’s highest court.

The Conversation

After Roe's overturning, Americans are demanding Supreme Court term limits

Following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning half a century of abortion rights under Roe v. Wade, nearly two-thirds of Americans want fundamental court reform, specifically term limits for Supreme Court justices.

Reason

Dobbs Opened Up an Attack on Doctors

The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe has made bad law and bad medicine

The Independent UK

Chief Justice John Roberts tried to protect Roe but failed to persuade Supreme Court colleagues, report claims

Draft opinion leak led to renewed sense of urgency among conservatives to issue final opinion before it could face other obstacles

The Independent UK

AP-NORC poll: 2 in 3 in US favor term limits for justices

About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices

The Independent UK

Retired Justice Stephen Breyer joining Harvard law faculty

Retired Justice Stephen Breyer is getting a different title: professor

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