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Sandra Day O’Connor's experience as a legislator guided her consensus-building work on the Supreme Court

When Sandra Day O’Connor stepped down from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006, she was the last justice to have served as an elected legislator. She previously was a member of the Arizona state Senate and later its majority leader.

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Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at age 93

Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, has died

The Independent UK

Edward Blum's crusade against affirmative action has used the legal strategy developed by civil rights activists

Few people have been more associated with rolling back modern-day civil rights laws than Edward Blum, the former stockbroker who has successfully challenged many affirmative action and voting rights laws.

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George Santos: a creature of Congress, dark money and limitless Republican hypocrisy

The New York fabulist faces expulsion but the fault for his rise lies with Trump, McCarthy, McConnell and the supreme court

The Guardian - US

US ethics groups hail Senate subpoenas for Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow

Watchdogs applaud after Democrats vote to summon key rightwing duo to answer questions amid supreme court ethics row

The Guardian - US

Sales slide at AO World as consumers put off buying latest mobile phones

Online electrical goods seller still able to report pre-tax profits of £13m in the half year as cost-cutting measures bear fruit

The Guardian - UK

U.S. Supreme Court’s new code of conduct is too little, too late

Lacking both enforcement and the weight of law, the new code is both useless and toothless.

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He Lost His Gun Rights Because of a Misdemeanor DUI Conviction. That Was Unconstitutional, a Judge Says.

The case highlights the broad reach of a federal law that bans firearm possession by people with nonviolent criminal records.

Reason

SCOTUS plays dumb about the public's ire

It's not just the useless "code of ethics" — the Dobbs decision revealed the real life impact of an imperious court

Salon

Building the mandate for MAGA's revenge

As Trump raved about revenge on "vermin," top adviser Stephen Miller went public with plans for concentration camps

Salon

The Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics, but it has no means of enforcement

The new rules leave compliance up to each justice. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor have been under scrutiny for gifts, benefits, travel received from outside sources.

Chicago Sun-Times

Supreme Court hears arguments in veteran’s case that could open up additional GI Bill benefits

Several justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts, seemed sympathetic toward James Rudisill, a decorated Army veteran who says the VA cut short his benefits and thwarted his dream of attending Yale’s divinity school.

Chicago Sun-Times

"Judges Have Long Deferred to Academe. That's Changing."

A very interesting article by Prof. Steve Sanders (Indiana), who is also an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a scholar of sexual orientation and the law; it's in the Chronicle of Higher Education, but also available without the need for registration here. An excerpt: During the Red Scare of…

Reason

High court seems likely to uphold law banning guns for accused domestic abusers

If so, the decision would be a small retreat from the Supreme Court's sweeping decision on gun rights last year.

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The Guardian - US

Supreme court leans towards upholding US gun ban for domestic abusers

Justices appear to be against further unravelling of gun laws as DoJ makes passionate call for preservation of 1994 firearms ban

The Independent UK

The Supreme Court takes up a case that again tests the limits of gun rights

The Supreme Court is hearing its first case about guns since last year’s decision that called into question numerous gun control laws

The Guardian - UK

Fridge magnate: John Roberts, the man who founded AO World ‘for a bet’

The boss who sells us appliances by the thousand is chilled about Mike Ashley’s stake in the company, but hot on recycling and the need for the rich to give back

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Amy Coney Barrett says she supports an ethics code for Supreme Court justices

Several justices have faced ethics questions in recent months, but the Supreme Court has so far resisted imposing a code of ethics.

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The Guardian - US

Amy Coney Barrett calls ethics code for scandal-hit supreme court ‘a good idea’

Conservative justice nominated by Trump offers no timeline for implementation or details of what code would contain

Reason

Supreme Court Will Hear This Texas Woman's Challenge to a Politically Motivated Arrest

Sylvia Gonzalez, an anti-establishment politician, spent a day in jail for allegedly concealing a petition that she organized.

The Independent UK

The Supreme Court avoided disaster when a hunk of marble fell in a courtyard used by justices

The Supreme Court avoided a catastrophic accident last year when a massive piece of marble at least two feet in length crashed to the ground in an interior courtyard used by the justices and their aides

The Independent UK

Supreme Court conservatives doubt South Carolina map discriminates against Black voters

A federal court already rejected the state’s congressional map. Conservative justices are sceptical

The Guardian - US

The US supreme court is facing a crisis of legitimacy

There’s a growing sense among many Americans that the Roberts court with its 6-3 hard-right supermajority is irrevocably broken

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Consumer watchdog agency's fate at Supreme Court could nix other agencies too

Payday lenders argue that the CFPB's funding structure is unconstitutional because it's not funded by money appropriated by Congress. The argument threatens the existence of other agencies, too.

The Guardian - US

Biden worries ‘extreme’ supreme court can’t be relied on to uphold rule of law

Trump installed three conservative justices, tilting the court 6-3 to the right, which delivered significant victories for conservatives

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