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Biden vetoes effort to block student loan forgiveness - Roll Call

Biden's plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student debt per borrower has been criticized as unfair to Americans without loans.

Roll Call

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan accused in lawyer murder case

Lawyer Abdul Razzaq Shar was shot by unknown gunmen and had accused Khan of high treason, police say.

Al Jazeera

Sedition — illogical equation of government with state

The real issue is that the law of sedition contained in Section 124A of the IPC is unconstitutional

The Hindu

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Oklahoma OKs the nation's first religious charter school – but litigation is likely to follow

U.S. courts have long wrestled with the extent to which government funding can be used at private religious schools. And on June 5, 2023, Oklahoma’s five-person Statewide Virtual Charter School Board pushed this much-debated question into new territory by approving plans for a religious charter school – the first in…

The Conversation

LBJ's daughter Luci watched him sign voting rights bill, then cried when Supreme Court weakened it

Luci Baines Johnson watched her father, President Lyndon Johnson, sign the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and she recalls asking him why the ceremony was in the U.S. Capitol instead of the White House

The Independent UK

Oklahoma wages war on secular education

A new taxpayer-funded religious school is a Christian nationalist move to destroy separation of church and state

Salon

Supreme Court seeks report from Registry on urgent listing of plea challenging RBI decision on ₹2,000 note exchange

The Supreme Court on June 7 sought a report from its registry on the issue of urgent listing of a plea challenging the notifications enabling the exchange of ₹2,000 currency notes without any requisition slip and ID proof.

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Second Amendment Roundup: Looking for Historical Analogues in All the Wrong Places

California is appealing the injunction against its “Not Unsafe” Handgun Act.

Reason

Women-Only Naked Spa Lacks Constitutional Right to Exclude Transgender Patrons with Pensises

From Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein's opinion yesterday in Olympus Spa v. Armstrong (W.D. Wash.): The Olympus Spa is a Korean spa "specifically designed for women," and the services offered there "are closely tied to the Korean tradition," meaning patrons are "require[d] … to be naked" during certain services. The facilities…

Reason

Third Circuit Holds That at Least Some Felons Retain Second Amendment Rights

Today's en banc decision in Range v. Attorney General so concludes, in a majority opinion by Judge Hardiman, which got the votes of nine of the fifteen judges. The challenger in this case pleaded guilty in 1995 to making a false statement to obtain food stamps; because this was in…

Reason

GOP lawmakers preview defense if Trump indicted on federal charges - Roll Call

Congressional allies of Donald Trump have previewed a muscular public defense that paints potential prosecutors as politically biased.

Roll Call

How the SCOTUS 'Supermajority' is shaping policy on everything from abortion to guns

Constitutional lawyer Michael Waldman says there's a growing divide between the electorate and the Court: "the country is moving in one direction ... the Court is moving fast in another direction."

WEKU

LOCALIZE IT: The nation's voting landscape 10 years after the Supreme Court's Shelby decision

EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS:

The Independent UK

Date of preventive detention must also be included while calculating statutory period of five days to serve order, rules Madras HC

Madras High Court has held that the date of preventive detention should also be counted while calculating the statutory period of five days within which the grounds for the detention order must be communicated to the detainee failing which the order would not survive

The Hindu

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Reuters

Top Dutch court says Rwandan genocide suspect cannot be extradited

The Dutch supreme court on Tuesday ruled that a man facing charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for his alleged role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide should not be extradited to Rwanda because it cannot be guaranteed his trial will be fair.

The Conversation

Supreme Court is poised to dismantle an integral part of LBJ's Great Society – affirmative action

Of all the civil rights policies enacted by U.S President Lyndon Johnson, affirmative action is arguably one of the most enduring – and most challenged.

The Independent UK

Legal officials say Myanmar's Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal of Suu Kyi’s bribery conviction

Legal officials in Myanmar say the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a special appeal of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s bribery conviction for allegedly receiving gold and thousands of dollars from a former political ally

Reuters

Top Polish court rules minister's abuse of power case should be reopened

Poland's top court ruled on Tuesday that a case involving a minister convicted of abuse of power when fighting graft in a previous role should be reopened, a blow to government hopes that the proceedings could be laid to rest before elections.

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The Guardian - US

Americans want to join unions. The supreme court doesn’t like that

Court’s new ruling makes it harder for workers to join a union, easier to break one and riskier to try to force concessions

The Guardian - US

Harvard affirmative action challenge partly based on Holocaust denier’s work

Complaint draws heavily from 2012 article by Ron Unz, who publishes antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ+ and neo-Nazi screeds

WEKU

Here are the major Supreme Court decisions we're still waiting for this term

The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue opinions in 27 cases that it heard this term, and has about four weeks left to release them. Here are the major cases NPR is watching.

Reason

A Connecticut Couple Challenges Warrantless Surveillance of Their Property by Camera-Carrying Bears

The lawsuit looks iffy in light of the Supreme Court's "open fields" doctrine.

The Hindu

A word of advice to the Delhi police

Looking at the sensitivity of the cases in the wrestlers’ issue, the best option available with the Delhi police is to complete the investigation quickly

The Independent UK

Missouri man set for execution on 'emotional roller coaster,' attorney says

An attorney for a man on Missouri's death row says her client is on “an emotional roller coaster” amid efforts to spare his life with just a day to go before his scheduled execution

The Independent UK

Supreme Court to hear ‘Trump too small’ trademark case; man wants to trademark phrase mocking Trump

The Supreme Court says it will hear a case in which a man tried to trademark a phrase mocking former President Donald Trump as “too small.”

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