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Supreme Court’s liberals mount defense of Voting Rights Act, but outcome of challenge is unclear

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s liberals, including new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, strongly defended the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, arguing that Alabama should be required to draw election maps that give Black voters a chance at equal representation.

Los Angeles Times

US supreme court hears case that could gut voting rights for minority groups

In Merrill v Milligan, the court will decide whether Alabama’s new congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court told minority representation at stake in case - Roll Call

Potential ruling on Voting Rights Act could “obliterate” many majority-minority congressional districts, one attorney said.

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Supreme Court begins new term after Roe v Wade’s collapse. Voting rights and climate protections could be next

The conservative court returns with a new slate of controversial cases while facing allegations of illegitimacy, extremism and partisan judgment. Alex Woodward explains what’s at stake

The Independent UK

SCOTUS gone wild: They're back for more!

Gutting abortion rights and the EPA wasn't enough. Now the Supreme Court goes for the big prize: Ending democracy

Salon

The Supreme Court will begin a new term with more contentious cases on its docket

The fate of affirmative action programs in college admissions, redistricting and elections are in the hands of the justices as the U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term.

WEKU

US supreme court to decide cases with ‘monumental’ impact on democracy

Many fear the potential for extreme rightwing rulings on topics ranging from affirmative action to voting rights

The Guardian - US

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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

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

The Independent UK

Supreme Court starts new term in political spotlight, tilted right

WASHINGTON — An empowered conservative majority of the Supreme Court begins a new term next week replete with cases that could reshape how the country considers social issues such as race in elections and higher education, after decisions from the last term brought the justices to the forefront of the…

Tribune News Service

Senate passes short-term deal to avoid government shutdown – as it happened

Top Democrat says he hopes to finalize deal to fund government until mid-December by the end of today

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court starts new term in political spotlight, tilted right - Roll Call

The high court begins a new term with cases that could reshape how the country considers race in elections and higher education.

Roll Call

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

Justice Kagan warns Supreme Court can’t be seen as political

Speaking at Northwestern Law School, Kagan said the Supreme Court’s legitimacy can be questioned if it is seen as “spoiling for trouble.”

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The Independent UK

Justice Kagan cautions Supreme Court can forfeit legitimacy

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is cautioning that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to

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.

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 Independent UK

Supreme Court move allows Jackson to take part in race case

The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions

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The Independent UK

Justice Elena Kagan warns that Supreme Court losing public confidence is ‘dangerous’

‘If over time the court loses all connection with the public and with public sentiment, that’s a dangerous thing for a democracy’

Reason

Elena Kagan's Valid Critique of the Supreme Court's 'Shadow Docket'

“Without full briefing and argument,” Kagan objects, the Court is quietly resolving major disputes.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Curtailing EPA is a bad ruling in a series of bad rulings by Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has been on a tear lately, to put it mildly. It wasn't enough that the court's conservative majority upended a half-century of precedent by ending the constitutional right to abortion. It also expanded gun rights despite the ongoing trauma of mass shootings and gun violence.

The Guardian - US

What the liberal justices’ scorching dissent reveals about the US supreme court

Opinions from Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor send stark warning about increasingly radical court abandoning long-held principles

The Conversation

What is originalism? Did it underpin the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion and guns? Debunking the myths

Recent Supreme Court decisions overturning Roe v. Wade and expanding gun rights in the U.S. have led some legal experts to declare the “triumph of originalism.”

Tribune News Service

Jay Ambrose: Supreme Court strengthens democratic republic

“Ruling on Final Day of Court’s Term Solidifies a Lurch to the Right,” says a New York Times front-page headline assuming editorializing is equivalent to news reporting. The truth is that the court has been solidifying a return to a democratic republic. We’re talking about the Supreme Court, of course,…

Tribune News Service

Liam Denning: The Supreme Court prefers climate policy to be expensive

If it feels as if the Supreme Court is hellbent on dividing us further, last week's ruling on the Environmental Protection Agency’s powers raised that feeling to whole new level.

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