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The Latest Breaking News from the US Supreme Court

Arthur Lee Burton is executed in Texas after U.S. Supreme Court denied his application for a stay

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Arthur Burton's application for a stay based on evidence of his intellectual disability

Latin Times

Texas death row inmate with hours to live maintains he has 'intellectual disability' as appeal sits with Supreme Court

Arthur Lee Burton would be the third person to be executed in the state this year. Another one was suspended minutes before it was set to take place last month

Latin Times

Texas executes Arthur Lee Burton for 1997 killing of Houston jogger

Burton was sentenced to death for killing Nancy Adleman, a mother of three, while she was jogging on a summer evening in Houston.

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GOP plans to win election — in court

Republicans learned from their 2020 mistakes — and have good reason to believe the Supreme Court is on their side

Salon

Chevron may undo reproductive care

Experts weigh in on our destabilized Supreme Court and how more than environmental regulation is being threatened

Salon

Justice Kagan says there needs to be a way to enforce the US Supreme Court's new ethics code

Justice Elena Kagan says the U.S. Supreme Court should bolster its new ethics code by adding a way to enforce it

The Independent UK

West Virginia is asking the US Supreme Court to consider transgender surgery Medicaid coverage case

West Virginia is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review rulings that found the state’s refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory

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The Supreme Court halted Ruben Gutiérrez's execution at the last minute; what happens now?

The future of the case depends on whether the highest court in the country grants what's called a writ of certiorari

Latin Times

Supreme Court grants death row inmate Ruben Gutiérrez a stay minutes before his execution

Gutiérrez was set to be executed for the 1998 murder of an 85-year-old woman. The Supreme Court granted the application "pending the disposition of the petition for a writ of certiorari"

Latin Times

Supreme Court delays execution of Ruben Gutierrez for 1998 Brownsville murder

For more than a decade, Gutierrez has fought unsuccessfully for DNA testing of evidence that he says would prove he did not kill Escolastica Harrison.

The Texas Tribune

Louisiana Federal Court Affirms the Right To Peacefully Protest

Nearly eight years after it was filed, the vexatious lawsuit against protester DeRay Mckesson has been dismissed with prejudice.

Reason

West Virginia, Idaho asking Supreme Court to review rulings allowing transgender athletes to compete

West Virginia and Idaho are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review rulings that blocked the enforcement of state laws prohibiting transgender athletes from competing in sports

The Independent UK

Kamala Harris: the top choice to replace Biden as Democratic nominee should he step aside

The US vice president, Kamala Harris, rushed to the defence of Joe Biden after his calamitous debate performance against Donald Trump in late June. In an interview with CNN, she said: “There are three things that were true yesterday before the debate that are still true today … First, the…

The Conversation

Arkansas advocates gather enough signatures to advance abortion ballot measure for November

However, they still face obstacles to reach their goal in the deeply red state

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US Supreme Court: 10 days of blockbuster decisions with huge implications for the future

The US Supreme Court has concluded its 2023-24 term in the past two weeks with a number of profoundly consequential decisions that have major implications for the years to come.

Al Jazeera

What could the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling mean for US foreign policy?

Presidents have used power overseas with few restraints, a trend experts worry could be strengthened under the ruling.

Reason

Judges Block Indiana and Mississippi Age Verification Laws for Porn, Social Media

And the Supreme Court agrees to weigh in.

Evening Standard

What is the US Supreme Court and how does it work? Joe Biden says Trump immunity is 'dangerous' for America

The justices find that a president has immunity for ‘official acts’ but is not immune for ‘unofficial acts’ — and refer the matter back to a trial judge

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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Texas death row inmate’s petition

Reed, on death row for more than 25 years, says he is innocent of the 1996 killing of Stacey Stites in Bastrop County.

The Independent UK

High court passes on case of Georgia man on death row who says Black jurors were wrongly purged

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider the case of a Black man on death row in Georgia who says his trial was unfair because the prosecutor improperly excluded Black jurors

The Texas Tribune

U.S. Supreme Court will hear challenge to Texas’ age verification requirement for porn sites

A state law passed last year requires pornographic websites to adopt age-verification measures, leading sites like Pornhub to block user access in Texas.

The Conversation

US Supreme Court immunity ruling ideal for a president who doesn’t care about democracy

The US Supreme Court has made a hugely significant and equally controversial judgment. It is one which could affect the results of the 2024 election, the rule of law and democratic institutions in the United States and shape the powers of the nation’s highest office for years to come.

The Texas Tribune

Again and again, U.S. Supreme Court slaps down 5th Circuit

The New Orleans-based court, which hears Texas cases, is pushing the federal judiciary to the right, even when it gets overturned by a higher court.

Al Jazeera

US Supreme Court sidesteps ruling on Republican-backed social media laws

Top court declines to rule on Texas and Florida laws, but defends social media platforms’ right to moderate content.

International Business Times

US Top Court Sidesteps Ruling On Contentious Social Media Laws

The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered lower courts to review a pair of Republican-backed laws that imposed restrictions on social media content moderation, in a decision welcomed by the tech industry.

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