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The Latest Breaking News from the Supreme Court

Will SCOTUS Let Trump Fire Lisa Cook From the Federal Reserve?

Or will the justices say that Trump fired her for illegal reasons?

Reason

SC declines to quash FIR against journalist Abhisar Sharma, grants interim protection

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain journalist Abhisar Sharma’s plea seeking to quash an FIR lodged by the Assam police over a video in which he accused the state government of indulging in “communal politics” and questioned its land allotment decisions, LiveLaw reported.

Newslaundry

Trump's administration again appeals to the Supreme Court over his foreign aid funding freeze

President Donald Trump's administration is appealing to the Supreme Court again in its bid to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid funding frozen

The Independent UK

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Who is Dezi Freeman, suspected gunman on the run in rural Australia after two officers killed?

The 56-year-old ‘sovereign citizen’ once told a court he was a disability pensioner and claimed his family had been persecuted by the state

The Independent UK

US asks Supreme Court to take action in USAID funding challenge - Roll Call

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to quickly step into a legal challenge involving USAID funding.

Roll Call

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook sues Trump after he ‘fired’ her

Trump’s unprecedented move against the central bank's leadership is an effort to ‘undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve’, Cook’s lawyer said

The Independent UK

Abhisar Sharma moves SC against Assam FIR

Abhisar Sharma has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Assam police case against him and the constitutionality of section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita under which it was lodged, among other sections, LiveLaw reported.

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Alleged cop killer's issues with authority laid bare

A fugitive gunman previously referred to the police in court evidence as 'frigging Nazis' and 'terrorist thugs' and once tried to arrest a magistrate.

AAP

MAGA really wants it to be legal to burn a Pride flag, while Trump wants jail for American flag burners

Right-wing commentators claim those defacing LGBT+ emblems held to different standard than those burning American flags

The Independent UK

Trump's Flag-Burning Punishment Triggers Conservative Pushback: 'Government Has No Right to Control Speech'

President Donald Trump's new executive order on flag burning has drawn criticism not only from opponents but also from some of his most prominent conservative allies.

Latin Times

Is This the Supreme Court's Next Big Abortion Case?

Plus: An impressive book by a Supreme Court justice.

Reason

Modi govt may present draft guidelines on social media conduct before SC in Nov

The Supreme Court has directed the Union government to frame draft guidelines to regulate social media conduct, in active consultation with the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA), The Hindu reported.

Newslaundry

Trump declares war on the Fed, setting up a titanic struggle for world's most important central bank

“President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so,” Cook said.

Fortune

Prosecutions Under New "Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag" Executive Order Would Violate First Amendment

And this is so even though the order targets flag desecration that could be punished under more neutral rules.

Reason

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Trump's Executive Order Prohibiting Flag Burning Is Unconstitutional

The president is the last person who should confuse protected speech with incitement to violence.

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Supreme Court Supports Trump In Legal Battles

Conservative Supreme Court justices express concern over lower courts defying decisions, emphasize adherence to precedents.

The Independent UK

Trump mandates flag burners face prosecution in one of biggest challenges to the First Amendment in decades

Burning an American flag has been considered protected speech since 1989

Fortune

The Federal Reserve could start resembling the Supreme Court

Fed governors typically step down before their terms expire, but they may stay on until a president from their political party is in the White House.

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The Independent UK

India’s top court ordered 1 million stray dogs be removed from the streets. The backlash was immediate

IN FOCUS: Street dogs are a fixture of nearly every neighbourhood in Delhi, in most cases being fed and cared for by residents. So when the death of a child, apparently from rabies, prompted a court to order that all dogs be rounded up and confined to non-existent ‘shelters’, it…

Reason

Judge Newman Loses Her Effort to Undo the "Temporary" Bar on Receiving Cases

The D.C. Circuit declines to reach the merits of many of the serious underlying constitutional questions.

We Got This Covered

Supreme Court lets Trump freeze $800M but hints his ambitious racist crusade may be on thin ice

Judge declares he has never seen anything like this.

Newslaundry

Meet the complainants behind the Assam FIRs against journalists

In Assam, three recent FIRs have turned the spotlight on a pattern: journalists critical of the government hauled up under a new sedition-style law. There’s another trend – the complainants in at least two of the FIRs ostensibly had links to the BJP or the RSS student wing ABVP.

Roll Call

Q&A on the Trump EPA’s effort to curtail regulation of greenhouse gas emissions - Roll Call

A look at the Trump EPA's attempt to rescind the "endangerment finding," which allows the agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

The Guardian - US

Trump’s presidential philosophy is government by shakedown

The president’s strategy is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Congress and the courts must put a stop to it

Newslaundry

SC stays coercive action against Siddharth Varadarajan and Karan Thapar in Assam FIR

Days after the Guwahati Crime Branch booked The Wire’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan and senior journalist Karan Thapar under Section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and other charges, the Supreme Court granted them interim protection from arrest, LiveLaw reported.

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