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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.

The Conversation

Two 15-Year Sentences Illustrate the Ugly Interaction of Drug and Gun Laws

The Supreme Court mulls how to apply a mandatory minimum for gun possession by people convicted of drug felonies.

Reason

Supreme Court rejects prisoner’s appeal on prolonged solitary confinement

In a 6-3 decision, the court’s majority declined to take an appeal from an Illinois prisoner held in solitary confinement for more than three years with no opportunity for exercise

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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

‘Trump too small’ t-shirt Supreme Court case shows size does matter

At the centre of a case before the Supreme Court is the validity of trademarking an insult directed at former president Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Size matters for Trump in a case at the hands of the Supreme Court

At the centre of a case before the Supreme Court is the validity of trademarking an insult directed at former president Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Supreme Court sounds not so big on trademark for ‘Trump too small’ slogan - Roll Call

The Supreme Court at oral arguments Wednesday sounded skeptical of letting people get trademarks of political figures without consent.

Roll Call

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Scholastic reverses decision to separate books on race, gender and sexuality

After backlash, company will no longer separate catalog at school fairs, which allowed districts to opt out of diverse books

The Guardian - US

Scholastic Books should stop buckling to rightwing bullies

Librarians now can hit the ‘bigot button’ for their school book fairs. But the publisher’s ham-fisted move is sure to increase sales

The Guardian - US

Radical SCOTUS is "not an accident"

Salon talks to the Emmy-winning documentarian about SCOTUS corruption, Mitch McConnell and the court's rich history

Salon

Clarence Thomas recuses from Supreme Court case on House Jan. 6 panel - Roll Call

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas bowed out of a Jan. 6-related case at the center of a congressional committee’s power to investigate.

Roll Call

National Cathedral replaces windows honoring Confederacy with stained-glass homage to racial justice

The landmark Washington National Cathedral has unveiled new stained-glass windows with a theme of racial justice

The Independent UK

‘You want to think America is better’: can the supreme court be saved?

Documentarian Dawn Porter’s expansive new series Deadlocked looks back at the history of an institution that has shaped the US for better and, more recently, worse

The Guardian - US

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson urges Americans to confront ‘uncomfortable’ history of racist violence

Her address in Alabama commemorates a white supremacist attack that galvanised the civil rights movement

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Chicago native Minyon Moore to chair 2024 Democratic Convention in Chicago

Minyon Moore got her start in politics in Chicago. She worked in Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign, in the Clinton White House and helped usher Ketanji Brown Jackson through her Supreme Court confirmation.

The Conversation

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

Noah Feldman: As justices snipe, Supreme Court's image suffers

The Supreme Court justices are getting testy with one another. As the court’s conservative revolution proceeds, the tone of the court’s opinions is getting increasingly confrontational — and increasingly personal. Extreme decisions are provoking extreme reactions. The leak of the Dobbs opinion last year, and the court’s botched investigation into…

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The Dwindling Jewish Representation And Evolving Composition Of The U.S. Supreme Court

Diversity on the Supreme Court: A changing landscape of justices from all backgrounds and walks of life.

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Supreme Court dissents and rejoinders, with respect and disrespect

Feelings seem raw at the court, certainly for the court's three liberal justices, who were on the losing end of some of the court's biggest cases this term, but also for the conservatives.

Tribune News Service

Stephen L. Carter: For Ketanji Brown Jackson, the law is in the details

With the end of the Supreme Court’s 2022 term, what have we learned about the most junior justice? To some, Ketanji Brown Jackson has been a reliable vote for the liberal coalition; others contend that she’s a swing vote with a tendency to surprise her fans by joining the court’s…

Reason

Ted Frank on Justice Jackson's Dubious Claim about Infant Mortality among Black Americans

Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal: In a dissent from last week's ruling against racial preferences in college admissions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson enumerated purported benefits of "diversity" in education. "It saves lives," she asserts. "For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that…

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: On affirmative action, Justice Jackson blasts her colleagues' 'let-them-eat-cake obliviousness'

There is no way around this: The Supreme Court's split decision overturning affirmative action in college admissions is a perfect example of how racial diversity enriches us, and why it should be enshrined as a goal in our laws.

Reason

Purple June

With Justice Kavanaugh by his side, the Chief Justice is back in control.

The Independent UK

In 370 days, Supreme Court conservatives dash decades of abortion and affirmative action precedents

Overturning Roe v. Wade and affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement for decades

The Independent UK

The Supreme Court just issued its biggest rulings of the year. Here's what you need to know.

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