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☆ The Supreme Court makes almost all of its decisions on the 'shadow docket.' An author argues it should worry Americans more than luxury trips.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The Supreme Court makes nearly all its decisions on the emergency relief docket or "shadow docket." What is the Supreme Court 'shadow docket?' Capitol Police watch an abortion-rights rally from behind the security fence surrounding the Supreme Court on June 23, 2022. Public trust in the Supreme Court is at a historic lowNadine Seiler attends a rally for voting rights while the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the Moore v. Harper case December 7, 2022. The dangers posed by the shadow docket are more perilous than the wrongs of individual justices, Vladeck argues, because the shadow docket's ills are inherently institutional.

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Finding it and nurturing it remain entirely consistent with the mission of higher education and, indeed, vital to our democracy. More than in any other setting, students who are raised in homogenous neighborhoods and schools first encounter difference — class, racial, ethnic and religious — in college. We should remember that these sorts of learning opportunities are relatively new in the history of higher education. For hundreds of years, many universities that today proudly champion a diverse society promoted and perpetuated class, racial and gender hierarchies. Like Bard College, schools could create early college programs, which allow high school students to take and earn college credits.

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☆ GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham was called a 'traitor' and roundly booed as he spoke at a South Carolina rally featuring Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sen. Lindsey Graham was booed on Saturday at a rally that featured former President Donald Trump. Some of the conservative attendees in the crowd called the South Carolina lawmaker a "traitor." Even Lindsey down here, Senator Lindsey Graham. We love Senator Graham," Trump said. "We have our progressive senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham.

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☆ LGBT rights yield to religious interests at US Supreme Court
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( John Kruzel | Industry Insight | Corporate Attorneys Don T Want To Pay Law Firms For Chatgpt When They Could Use It Themselves | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

"We've seen a dramatic expansion of rights for conservative religious communities that has had a detrimental impact on equality rights, certainly for LGBTQ people," said Elizabeth Platt, director of the Law, Rights and Religion Project at Columbia Law School. Smith, who said she opposes gay marriage based on her Christian beliefs, was represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative religious rights group. Still, the ruling illustrated a disparity in how the court views protections for LGBT people in contrast to the competing conservative Christian interests, Platt said. He stood out among conservatives in his espousal of sympathy both for conservative Christian causes and for what is sometimes called the "dignity interests" of marginalized groups including LGBT people. Barrett's addition gave it a 6-3 conservative margin and recalibrated how it weighed conservative Christian causes against the dignity interests of people protected by civil rights laws.

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☆ Takeaways from the latest controversial and contentious Supreme Court term
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Ariane De Vogue | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

In his opinion blocking the student debt program, Roberts insisted he is concerned about criticisms of the court. “Make no mistake: Supreme Court ethics reform must happen whether the Court participates in the process or not,” he warned. In June, the court sided with a cement mixing company that sought to bypass federal labor law and sue a union in state court for the destruction of property caused by striking workers. On Tuesday, when Roberts announced the court’s opinion in Moore v. Harper, liberals and even some conservatives exhaled, relieved that the court was rejecting a controversial Trump-backed election law theory. “Justice Jackson has a different view,” he said at one point.

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☆ Schumer slams 'MAGA-captured Supreme Court' that now has led the right to achieve 'dangerous, regressive policies'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Chuck Schumer unloaded on the Supreme Court after a pair of 6-3 rulings on Friday. The top Senate Democrat called the body a "MAGA-captured Supreme Court." The cases were 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis and Biden v. Nebraska, respectively. "The ill-founded and disappointing decisions from the Supreme Court are a stark reminder that it will take a sustained effort to rebalance our federal courts ...," Schumer said. Schumer's past criticism of the Supreme Court has drawn more than just eyebrows.

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But under a Colorado public accommodations law, she said she cannot post the statement because the state considers it illegal. The ruling – rooted in free speech grounds – will pierce state public accommodation laws for those businesses who sell so-called “expressive” goods. It is the latest victory for religious conservatives at the high court and will alarm critics who fear the current court is setting its sights on overturning the 2015 marriage case. When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case in February 2022, the justices sidestepped whether the law violated Smith’s free exercise of religion. In court, Waggoner said that the law works to compel speech in violation of the First Amendment.

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The liberal justices, including Biden's appointee Ketanji Brown Jackson, found themselves in the role of the dissenting minority in some of the nine-month term's biggest cases. The conservative justices invoked the "major questions" doctrine, a muscular judicial approach that gives judges broad discretion to invalidate executive agency actions of "vast economic and political significance" unless Congress clearly authorized them. In those cases, the conservative justices were unified in the majority and the liberal justices dissented. In that case, the liberal justices were joined by one conservative justice, Trump appointee Brett Kavanaugh, in dissenting on the new test. The justices on Friday agreed to decide whether a 1994 federal law that bars people under domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms violates the Constitution's Second Amendment.

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☆ The Supreme Court justices paid an average of $42,539 to go to college. Today, they'd have to pay around $320,531.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Sarah Al-Arshani | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Supreme Court struck down Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. Student loan payments will likely resume in October. For the justices behind the decision, the cost of an undergraduate degree was much cheaper when they were in school. According to EDI, there was a 2,807% increase in the average student loan debt at graduation between 1970 and 2021 before adjusting for inflation. Student loan borrowers gathered at the Supreme Court today to tell the court that student loan relief is legal on January 2, 2023.

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☆ US Supreme Court sidesteps 'acquitted conduct' cases for now
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( John Kruzel | Industry Insight | Corporate Attorneys Don T Want To Pay Law Firms For Chatgpt When They Could Use It Themselves | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The justices turned away appeals in cases that would have given them an opportunity to prohibit the consideration of "acquitted conduct" in sentencing decisions in criminal cases. Sentencing Commission, a bipartisan panel responsible for crafting U.S. criminal sentencing policy, before addressing the issue. The commission in January proposed amending federal sentencing guidelines to prohibit judges from considering a defendant's acquitted conduct with only narrow exceptions. Numerous criminal defendants have asked the justices to revisit a 1997 Supreme Court ruling that said a jury's verdict of acquittal does not prevent a sentencing judge from considering conduct underlying an acquitted charge. Some current and former Supreme Court justices have questioned whether judges should be permitted to extend a defendant's prison sentence based on acquitted conduct.

Persons: Sonia Sotomayor, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, John Kruzel, Nate Raymond, Will Dunham Organizations: U.S, Supreme, U.S . Sentencing, U.S . Justice Department, Liberal, Constitution's, National Association of Criminal Defense, Thomson Locations: Boston

☆ Student-loan borrowers are about to find out if they'll get Biden's debt cancellation
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Supreme Court will decide on Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan on Friday. It's an issue justices highly scrutinized during oral arguments for the student-debt relief cases in February. Of course, past rulings are not a clear indicator of what the court will decide on student-loan forgiveness — and the issue remains highly controversial. Some Democratic lawmakers, meanwhile, have vowed to do whatever it takes to ensure student-loan borrowers can get relief — and the White House continues to maintain confidence in the legality of Biden's plan. We certainly hope the Supreme Court agrees, because we know all too well what the stakes are for millions of students."

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☆ Student-loan borrowers are less than 24 hours away from finding out if they'll get Biden's debt cancellation
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Supreme Court will decide on Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan on Friday. It's now up to the Supreme Court to decide if the loan forgiveness is legal, or if it cannot move forward. It's an issue justices highly scrutinized during oral arguments for the student-debt relief cases in February. Of course, past rulings are not a clear indicator of what the court will decide on student-loan forgiveness — and the issue remains highly controversial. We certainly hope the Supreme Court agrees, because we know all too well what the stakes are for millions of students."

☆ The Supreme Court wants to maintain its enhanced security detail after overturning Roe v. Wade, but data shows that overall threats against the judiciary decreased last year, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Supreme Court is looking to enhance its security for the justices after last year's unrest over Roe v. Wade. However, the Supreme Court is now seeking additional security agents to buttress their existing line of defense. Congress quickly passed the Supreme Court Police Parity Act, which afforded the Marshal of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Police the authority to protect the immediate family members of any chief justice or associate justice. SCOTUS has a massive security detailAccording to The Intercept, the Supreme Court now includes 400 US Marshals as part of the Supreme Court Special Security Officer Program. And the Supreme Court in March also asked for an additional $5.8 million to buttress the Supreme Court Police.

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☆ The Donald Trump view of elections was just rejected again
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The news Tuesday is that the US Supreme Court squarely rejected the fringe legal theory by which far-right activists and supporters of Trump hoped to be able to ignore election outcomes. What exactly did the Supreme Court do? The case at hand – Moore v. Harper – had to do with a 2022 North Carolina congressional map rejected by the state’s Supreme Court. Trump supporters thought a riff on the independent state legislature theory, written by the former Trump lawyer John Eastman, could have kept him in office past 2020, even though he lost the election. “(Pence) should have put the votes back to the state legislatures and I think we would have had a different outcome.

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☆ Opinion: The Supreme Court justices picked by Trump were bad. DeSantis would be much worse.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Opinion Duncan Hosie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

DeSantis has appointed far more extreme justices to the Florida Supreme Court than Trump did to the US Supreme Court. But DeSantis’ appointees to the Florida Supreme Court embrace the Thomas-Alito wing of the organization. DeSantis’ appointees, in contrast, have jumped at entrenching conservative electoral domination and curtailing Black political power. Imitating Thomas and Alito, DeSantis’ appointees have rushed into gratuitous political controversies, writing opinions heavy on theory and light on practicality. Thomas and Alito are in this vanguard, as are DeSantis’ appointees and some of Trump’s lower court appointees, with which DeSantis is aligned.

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The North Carolina controversy arose after the state Supreme Court struck down the state’s 2022 congressional map as an illegal partisan gerrymander, replacing it with court drawn maps that favored Democrats. Reggie Weaver, at podium, speaks outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, North Carolina, Feb. 15, 2022, about a partisan gerrymandering ruling by the North Carolina Supreme Court. Gary D. Robertson/APAfter the state high court ruled, North Carolina Republican lawmakers appealed the decision to the US Supreme Court, arguing that the state Supreme Court had exceeded its authority. After the last election, the North Carolina Supreme Court flipped its majority to Republican. With the US Supreme Court rejecting the lawmakers’ theory that state courts could not police federal election rules, lawyers for the legislature’s opponents celebrated Tuesday’s ruling.

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☆ SCOTUS just killed a fringe conservative legal theory that could have upended national elections
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

State legislatures will continue to be checked by state courts. Then-President Donald Trump and his allies helped elevate the once-fringe election theory in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. In effect, it meant that state legislatures could nullify their own state's presidential election results, disenfranchising potentially millions of Americans in the process. Roberts said that the high court's decision does not mean that state supreme courts have "free rein" in ruling on election laws. "We hold only that state courts may not transgress the ordinary bounds of judicial review such that they arrogate to themselves the power vested in state legislatures to regulate federal elections," he concluded.

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☆ The fate of millions of student-loan borrowers is set to be decided this week
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Supreme Court is set to decide on Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan this week. Recent rulings from the court could shed light on how it might handle the debt relief cases. The Supreme Court is now entering the last week of its term, and it's set to hand down all remaining decisions on pending cases. And recent rulings from the Supreme Court shed light on how justices are taking a stricter look at standing issues . Of course, it's unclear if the Supreme Court will handle the student-debt cancellation cases in the same manner.

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☆ Why Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan might not be doomed after 2 new rulings from conservative Supreme Court justices
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Two recent Supreme Court rulings have struck down cases due to a lack of states' standing to sue. In February, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the two lawsuits that paused the implementation of Biden's plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for federal borrowers. And that's what the Supreme Court has done with two recent rulings. "In Justice Barrett's own words, the ruling for student debt relief should be 'open and shut' in favor of mostly low-income families burdened with the crushing weight of student debt." Student loan borrowers and advocates gather for the People's Rally To Cancel Student Debt During The Supreme Court Hearings On Student Debt Relief on February 28, 2023 in Washington, DC.

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The Republican attorneys general of Texas and Louisiana filed suit to challenge Biden's policy but the justices determined that the two states lacked the legal standing to bring the case. The guidelines reflected Biden's recalibration of U.S. immigration policy after the hardline approach taken by his Republican predecessor Donald Trump, who sought to broaden the range of immigrants subject to arrest and removal. Biden's policy prioritized apprehending and deporting non-U.S. citizens who pose a threat to national security, public safety or border security, giving agents more discretion to consider individual circumstances. Republicans have criticized Biden as weak on immigration policy, saying his actions - including fewer detentions and deportations - have encouraged more illegal border crossings. The Supreme Court the following month voted 5-4 not to block Tipton's ruling halting the guidelines.

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☆ Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh rules states can't sue the government just over 'indirect' harm from a federal policy. One of the lawsuits blocking Biden's student-debt relief involves 6 states d
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Justice Brett Kavanaugh authored a new opinion that ruled two states didn't have standing to sue the government. It's the second case led by a conservative justice that scrutinizes a state's standing to sue. The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the states lack standing to bring the suit, with Justice Sam Alito as the lone dissent. "But in our system of dual federal and state sovereignty, federal policies frequently generate indirect effects on state revenues or state spending. Kavanaugh's opinion was, of course, only responding to the Texas case and there was no reference to the pending student-debt relief cases.

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The justices, in a 5-4 decision, overturned a lower court's ruling involving a user who sued after a scammer stole money from his account. The lower court had let a proposed class action lawsuit proceed while Coinbase pressed its appeal contending that the claims belong in arbitration. The justices dismissed a second case that Coinbase had asked it to review. It makes sense that lower court litigation should be paused while an appellate court decides whether a case belongs in court at all." In both cases, federal judges had refused to force the claims into arbitration, as the company argued the user agreements required.

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☆ Supreme Court revives Biden immigration enforcement plan
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Lawrence Hurley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Supreme Court on Friday breathed new life into a Biden administration policy that will set immigration enforcement priorities by focusing on public safety threats. The court in a ruling authored by conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that the challengers did not have legal standing to sue over the plan. Announced in September 2021, President Joe Biden's plan marked a shift away from the hard-line enforcement approach taken by former President Donald Trump. Biden administration lawyers argued that the president has broad discretion to set enforcement priorities. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 in July 2022 to reject the Biden administration's request to immediately restore the policy but agreed to take up the government's appeal.

Persons: Joe Biden, Brett Kavanaugh, Joe Biden's, Donald Trump, Biden, Drew Tipton, Tipton Organizations: District, Trump, Republicans, U.S, Supreme Locations: U.S, Mexico, El Paso , Texas, Texas, Louisiana

☆ Supreme Court rules in favor of Coinbase in arbitration dispute
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The justices, in a 5-4 decision, overturned a lower court's ruling involving a user who sued after a scammer stole money from his account. The lower court had let a proposed class action lawsuit proceed while Coinbase pressed its appeal contending that the claims belong in arbitration. The suit accused the company of violating the Electronic Funds Transfer Act by not investigating or recrediting Bielski's account. In both cases, federal judges refused to force the claims into arbitration, as the company argued the user agreements required. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2022 refused the company's requests to put further litigation on hold pending those appeals.

Persons: Coinbase, Brett Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh, irretrievably, Clarence Thomas, Abraham Bielski, duping Organizations: U.S, Supreme, Conservative, Circuit Locations: California, dogecoin, San Francisco

More than 30% of households on the Navajo reservation currently lack running water, according to the tribe. "The 1868 treaty reserved necessary water to accomplish the purpose of the Navajo Reservation," Kavanaugh wrote in the ruling. "But the treaty did not require the United States to take affirmative steps to secure water for the Tribe." Circuit Court of Appeals that had given a green light to the Navajo Nation's lawsuit against the U.S. Interior Department and others seeking to prod the government to develop a plan to secure water for the tribe.

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