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‘Botched execution’ lasted 90 minutes as Alabama inmate survived ‘torture,’ lawsuit says

An Alabama inmate on death row survived a “botched execution” lasting 90 minutes as prison workers unsuccessfully searched for his veins, according to a federal lawsuit.

Tribune News Service

Rodney Reed pleads before U.S. Supreme Court for DNA testing that might establish his innocence

The nation’s high court heard arguments Tuesday on whether Reed can seek DNA testing of crucial evidence in the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites in Bastrop County.

The Texas Tribune

DeSantis gerrymander may be illegal

DeSantis’ move, secretly aided by GOP-linked national operatives, came over the objections of GOP lawmakers

Salon

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The Supreme Court just undid a key ruling for counting undated Pennsylvania mail ballots

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday vacated a federal appeals court decision that had allowed undated mail ballots to be counted in Pennsylvania, injecting new uncertainty into an issue that could affect thousands of votes in next month’s elections.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

U.S. Supreme Court rejects request to review Texas death row inmate Andre Thomas’ case

Thomas’ attorneys appealed saying that some members of the jury that sentenced him had expressed racist views. In their dissent, the court’s three liberal justices wrote that Thomas’ conviction and death sentence were unconstitutional.

The Texas Tribune

Conservative New York sheriffs refuse to enforce gun rules in latest blow after Supreme Court concealed carry ruling

Federal courts have repeatedly blocked New York gun rules

The Independent UK

Vice President Kamala Harris calls on Texans to protect reproductive and voting rights during Austin visit

In a visit to Texas’ capital, Harris rallied the state’s voters around protecting reproductive and voting rights at the ballot box next month by keeping Democrats in power in Congress. The topic of immigration was absent from Harris’ speeches Saturday.

The Texas Tribune

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Appeals court ruling allows Arizona abortions to restart

Abortions can take place again in Arizona, at least for now, after an appeals court on Friday blocked enforcement of a pre-statehood law that almost entirely criminalized the procedure.

WEKU

Appeals court reinstates injunction blocking abortion ban

The Arizona Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court order that allowed the enforcement of a pre-statehood law making it a crime to provide nearly all abortions

The Independent UK

At least 66 US clinics have halted abortions, institute says

At least 66 clinics have stopped providing abortions in 15 states since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade

The Independent UK

Ketanji Brown Jackson makes her mark early, often as US Supreme Court work begins

It didn’t take long for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to find her voice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tribune News Service

Mississippi search warrants go missing

Search warrants are supposed to be filed at the courthouse, but they’re missing from many of Mississippi’s courts

Salon

Texas inmate who fought prayer, touch rules to be executed

A Texas death row inmate whose case clarified the role of spiritual advisers in death chambers nationwide faces execution, despite the efforts of a district attorney to stop his lethal injection

The Independent UK

A tiny fish that once caused an epic conservation fight is no longer under threat

The snail darter, a tiny Southeastern fish that derailed a federal dam during an epic battle over Endangered Species Act protection in the '70s, is no longer considered imperiled, officials announced.

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NC court hears new arguments on maps, paralleling nationally watched elections case

Legislative leaders sought to cement their ability to gerrymander their own districts without courts being able to strike them down, in arguments they made Tuesday to the N.C. Supreme Court.

France 24

Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in dispute over classified documents

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate, escalating a dispute over the powers of an independent arbiter appointed to inspect the records.

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court won’t review copyright fight over Paramount’s ‘What Men Want’

The U.S. Supreme Court won’t weigh in on a copyright fight over the Paramount Pictures movie “What Men Want.”

The Independent UK

Snail darter, focus of epic conservation fight, is recovered

The snail darter, a tiny Southeastern fish at the center of an epic battle over Endangered Species Act protection in the 1970s, is no longer considered imperiled

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US Supreme Court begins session amid crisis of public trust

Recent survey finds just 47 percent of Americans trust US top court, which is taking up new set of contentious cases.

Reason

Supreme Court Leaves Georgia's Onerous Ballot Access Law in Place

Despite the state's law allowing no third-party House candidates to get on the ballot in 60 years, the Court declined to hear the case.

The Conversation

Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife have bolstered conservative causes as he is poised to lead the Supreme Court rolling back more landmark rulings

With the opening of the U.S. Supreme Court’s new session on Oct. 3, 2022, Clarence Thomas is arguably the most powerful justice on the nation’s highest court.

Salon

Law professors alarmed by Supreme Court

One professor slammed the court for its “screamingly, unapologetically activist" abortion ruling

Ballotpedia

Robe & Gavel: SCOTUS begins October Term 2022-2023

Welcome to the Oct. 3 edition of Robe & Gavel, Ballotpedia’s newsletter about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and other judicial happenings around the U.S.

Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to Pennsylvania electoral map

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Republican former congressman's challenge to a map charting Pennsylvania's U.S. House of Representatives districts that the state's highest court adopted in place of one drawn up by Republican lawmakers.

The Independent UK

Michigan women fight to preserve abortion, 1 chat at a time

Women are gathering across Michigan to strategize how to preserve abortion rights in their state

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