Professor Akhil Amar, On His Podcast, Responds to Attorney General Mukasey and the Tillman-Blackman Position Section 3 civility outside and inside Yale Law School. Reason · Sep 14, 2023
Corporate Australia fails to sway public as Indigenous Voice faces defeat Australian businesses’ support for the Voice is doing little to boost the flagging fortunes of the ‘yes’ campaign. Al Jazeera · Sep 13, 2023
Alabama asks Supreme Court to aid a delay after June loss in voting case Alabama is once again asking the Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional districts. In essence, the state is fighting a court order that the high court upheld just months ago. WEKU · Sep 12, 2023
How Affirmative Action Lost at the Supreme Court Preferential college admissions violated the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Reason · Sep 7, 2023
Alabama’s defiant new voting map rejected by federal court — after Republicans ignored the Supreme Court’s directive to add a second majority-Black House district In a rebuke of the Alabama legislature, a panel of three federal judges rejected on Sept. 5, 2023, the state’s proposed voting districts that failed to create a second district where Black voters could elect a political candidate of their choice. The Conversation · Sep 6, 2023
Senator files ethics complaint against supreme court justice Samuel Alito Sheldon Whitehouse writes to Chief Justice John Roberts about ‘several’ ethics violations, citing Wall Street Journal interview The Guardian - US · Sep 5, 2023
The Sticky Spaghetti School of Constitutional Law Politicians are throwing laws at the wall and seeing what sticks. Reason · Sep 5, 2023
How Alabama is defying the supreme court to discriminate against Black voters In June, the US supreme court upheld a decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional map – but state Republicans ignored the mandate The Guardian - US · Sep 1, 2023
Justice Clarence Thomas reports he took 3 trips on Republican donor’s plane last year Thomas said he was complying with new guidelines for reporting travel, but he did not include any earlier travel at billionaire Harlan Crow’s expense, including a 2019 trip to Indonesia aboard his yacht. Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 1, 2023
Fox News host questions why racist shootings haven’t stopped under Biden ‘He pledged to unite the country back in his inauguration speech, several times prior and after that, and yet horrific things like what happened over the weekend still happen’ The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2023
Woodstock Festival: 50 mind-blowing facts about the original celebration of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll The Woodstock Festival became part of rock'n'roll folklore as half a million hippies descended on a farm in upstate New York in 1969 Louder · Aug 15, 2023
ChatGPT can get you through college, but there’s one essay it can’t help with—and it has to do with the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling More colleges are asking applicants to discuss “identity” and “background” since the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action, but to write effectively, teens will need to do it themselves. Fortune · Aug 14, 2023
‘Unprecedented, stunning, disgusting’: Clarence Thomas condemned over billionaire gifts Calls for the supreme court justice to resign grow as new details of 38 more undeclared gifts and vacations from rich donors emerge The Guardian - US · Aug 11, 2023
Supreme Court narrowly allows Biden’s ‘ghost gun’ regulations to continue Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the liberal Justices in keeping the regulations The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2023
Salon · Aug 6, 2023 America's racial history: Truth matters Most Americans believe we're a long way from Birmingham in 1963. But that history still fuels today's conflicts
Salon · Aug 4, 2023 Kagan contradicts Alito on SCOTUS "It just can't be that the court is the only institution that somehow is not subject to checks and balances"
The Conversation · Aug 3, 2023 Ending affirmative action does nothing to end discrimination against Asian Americans In two cases challenging the use of race in college admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the educational benefit of racial diversity is no longer what it once called a “compelling interest.”
The Guardian - US · Aug 2, 2023 Samuel Alito opposition to ethics reform ‘unwelcome’ – leading Democrat Dick Durbin, chair of Senate judiciary committee, criticizes supreme court justice in wake of billowing ethics scandals
Reason · Jul 31, 2023 Justice Alito's Interview in the Wall Street Journal As a general rule, Supreme Court Justices speak through their opinions. From time to time, Justices will be "interviewed"by friendly interlocutors during public events. The screened questions are usually softballs, and even then, the Justices tend to avoid saying anything newsworthy. In recent years, perhaps the biggest outlier was Justice…
The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2023 AOC claps back at Justice Alito for saying Congress can’t have oversight of Supreme Court Supreme Court justice criticised for flying to Alaska on billionaire’s jet
The Independent UK · Jul 28, 2023 Justice Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court
The Conversation · Jul 27, 2023 Alabama is not the first state to defy a Supreme Court ruling: 3 essential reads on why that matters In its 5-4 Allen v. Milligan decision on June 8, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the state of Alabama to redraw its congressional voting districts and consider race as it made up the new districts. The court had found that the state’s political districts diluted the strength of Black…
The Conversation · Jul 26, 2023 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.
Tribune News Service · Jul 20, 2023 POINT: Colleges should solely consider merit in selecting students On June 29, the Supreme Court delivered a 6-3 ruling that essentially prevents colleges from using affirmative action and race-based quotas in the college admissions acceptance process.
The Independent UK · Jul 20, 2023 Senate Judiciary panel to consider ethics rules for Supreme Court The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote Thursday on a new ethics code for the Supreme Court, an attempt to respond to recent revelations about justices’ interactions with wealthy donors and others