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Joe Biden slams Supreme Court in fiery speech dispelling myths about affirmative action

America's colleges and universities can no longer weigh race and gender when considering a student's eligibility for enrollment after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action on Thursday

Daily Mirror · Jun 29, 2023

KBJ torches affirmative action ruling

The “visibly angry” justice said Thomas “ignites too many straw men to list”

Salon · Jun 29, 2023

Noah Feldman: Affirmative action is radical Supreme Court's latest casualty

Affirmative action died Thursday at the hands of the Supreme Court’s conservative constitutional revolution. In a 6-3 decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court overturned nearly 50 years of precedent and held that it’s unconstitutional for universities to take account of racial diversity in their admissions.

Tribune News Service · Jun 29, 2023

Justice Jackson reports flowers from Oprah, designer clothing as Thomas delays filing disclosure

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has disclosed that she received a $1,200 congratulatory floral display from Oprah Winfrey and $6,580 in designer clothing for a magazine photo shoot in her first months as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2023

Is Encouraging Illegal Immigration Protected by the First Amendment?

Criticizing the law by calling for people to break it is an American tradition.

Reason · Jun 6, 2023

Supreme Court narrows Clean Water Act protections - Roll Call

The Supreme Court narrowed the protections of the Clean Water Act to wetlands and other bodies of water directly connected to federal waters;

Roll Call · May 25, 2023

Ron DeSantis teases 2024 bid as he makes subtle dig at Trump and vows to ‘protect faith and family’

Florida governor says he hopes to impose ‘7-2 conservative majority on the Supreme Court that would last a quarter century’

The Independent UK · May 23, 2023

DeSantis envisions ‘quarter-century’ of far-right majority in the supreme court

Speaking to Christian media, the Florida governor suggested a 7-2 conservative majority in the high court if he is elected president

The Guardian - US · May 23, 2023

Andy Warhol, Prince and a question of copyright

A US Supreme Court copyright ruling that Andy Warhol did not have the right to use a photo of Prince has sent shockwaves through the art world, and left legal experts scrambling to asses the implications for AI image generation.

The Week · May 23, 2023

Noah Feldman: The court’s Warhol-Prince ruling is pro-artist, anti-art

The Supreme Court has sided with individual artists — but against art itself. In a fascinating copyright decision that transcended ideological lines, the court held that Andy Warhol’s distinctive reworking of a photograph of Prince did not count as fair use, thus requiring the Andy Warhol Foundation to compensate the…

Tribune News Service · May 21, 2023