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Republican Ted Cruz introduces bill to block US supreme court expansion

Texas senator claims court dominated 6-3 by conservatives after ruthless GOP power plays must remain ‘independent’

The Guardian - US

The 'wackadoodle' foundation of Fox News' election-fraud claims

A woman who put forth election-fraud claims that even she described as "pretty wackadoodle" was a source for baseless claims aired by Fox News in 2020. The network is now being sued for defamation.

WEKU

The Supreme Court Case That Could Upend the Clean Water Act

If SCOTUS finds in favor of a small-town Idaho couple in Sackett v. EPA, it could end the federal government's jurisdiction over millions of acres of land.

Reason

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Don't Underestimate Clarence Thomas

Justice Thomas' footprints are all over the Court's recently concluded term.

Reason

Commentary: Antonin Scalia and the uncertain future of legal conservatism

During her 2010 Senate confirmation hearings, centrist-liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan famously allowed that “we are all originalists.” In a 2015 interview at Harvard Law School honoring her then-colleague Justice Antonin Scalia, Kagan proclaimed that “we are all textualists now.”

Chicago Tribune

Supreme Court asked to stop judges from considering ‘acquitted conduct’ during sentencing

Judges sometimes add prison time for crimes defendants were accused of — even if juries found them innocent. And the Supreme Court has turned down numerous appeals asking it to declare that the Constitution forbids it.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ketanji Brown Jackson and the Future of Progressive Originalism

The liberal justice seems ready to fight legal conservatives on their own ground.

Reason

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Commentary: Guns and logic

Ignoring the nation’s epidemic of mass shootings, in June 2022, by a 6-3 margin along ideological lines, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law that required anyone seeking a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home to demonstrate a specific justification for the permit. Under the…

Tribune News Service

The New Right's heated family feud

"Integralists" battle "national conservatives" over religion, capitalism and the far-right conquest of America

Salon

Justices cheered at conservative group's anniversary dinner

Four of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned the constitutional right to abortion showed up at the conservative Federalist Society’s black-tie dinner marking its 40th anniversary

The Independent UK

If control of the House is close, Jan. 3 could be chaos

WASHINGTON — Consider the following scenario: Following a contentious midterm election, the House gathers on the first day of the new Congress to organize itself. With an unpopular Democrat in the White House, the party appears to have lost its House majority. But something’s amiss.

Tribune News Service

If control of the House is close, Jan. 3 could be chaos - Roll Call

Things could get “pretty messy” with challenges swirling after the midterm elections, legal experts say. Are lawmakers ready?

Roll Call

The supreme court is in session – and every case is potentially a climate one

Sackett v EPA – an attack on the Clean Water Act – is by no means the only threat to climate policy before the court

The Guardian - US

Biden calls Supreme Court ‘more of an advocacy group’

The president says the Court is no longer ‘evenhanded’

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Editorial: A federal judge wrongly knocks down New York State’s updated gun laws

Conservative jurisprudence on guns has fallen far and fallen fast into the gaping maw of Second Amendment absolutism.

Tribune News Service

Ketanji Brown Jackson makes her mark early, often as US Supreme Court work begins

It didn’t take long for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to find her voice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Independent UK

Jackson set to make Supreme Court debut in brief ceremony

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is making her first appearance on the Supreme Court bench in a brief courtroom ceremony three days ahead of the start of the high court’s new term

Roll Call

Supreme Court to hear case on EPA's Clean Water Act authority - Roll Call

The EPA's power to enforce the Clean Water Act could be curtailed in a case to be considered by the Supreme Court when it convenes Monday.

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Which wetlands should receive federal protection? The Supreme Court revisits a question it has struggled in the past to answer

The U.S. Supreme Court opens its new session on Oct. 3, 2022, with a high-profile case that could fundamentally alter the federal government’s ability to address water pollution. Sackett v. EPA turns on a question that courts and regulators have struggled to answer for several decades: Which wetlands and bodies…

Texas Observer

Arms Makers Target Kids to Boost Sales

With gun ownership declining in the United States, manufacturers and industry lobbyists like the NRA are deliberately marketing to children.

Chicago Sun-Times

An unsung hero of our Supreme Court

Retired justice David Souter, who turned 83 a few days ago, exemplifies the kind of humility and grace that receives scant attention in our celebrity-driven, 24/7 news-cycle world.

Reason

Lindsey Graham's Abortion Ban, Which Would Override State Laws, Shows Contempt for Federalism

The Republican senator improbably claims his bill is authorized by the 14th Amendment and the Commerce Clause.

Salon

How Justice Scalia created this chaos

Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky on the incoherent, dishonest ideology that has warped the Supreme Court

The Independent UK

California fails to replace concealed weapon ruling

California lawmakers have failed to replace limits on carrying concealed weapons that were struck down by a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling

Reason

Federal Court Upholds Washington, DC Regulation Requiring Child Care Workers to Have College Degrees

The decision may be in accordance with Supreme Court precedent. But if so, it underscores that precedent's flaws.

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