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The annual financial disclosure reports from the Supreme Court Justices were made public on Wednesday, but Justice Clarence Thomas requested and was granted a 90-day extension to submit his statement. Justice Samuel Alito, who has been known to ask for more time, was given the same extension. The financial disclosure reports that the Supreme Court Justices are required to publish hold information about gifts and income they have received throughout the year, and about any other positions they hold outside of the Supreme Court. Thomas has been facing scrutiny from congressional Democrats over h...
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On Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) questioned Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on her faith during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing. Graham said he made it a point to ask because Republicans disapproved of how Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett was treated based on her religious beliefs during her hearings. During the confirmation hearing, Graham asks a series of questions about Jackson’s personal background and faith. Graham started his interrogation by saying, “What faith are you, by the way?” Jackson started to respond that she identifies as a ...
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Sen. Ted Cruz(R-Texas) called PresidentJoe Biden‘s promise to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court “offensive,” on his podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz. “The fact that he’s willing to make a promise at the outset, that it must be a black woman, I gotta say that’s offensive. You know, you know black women are what, 6 percent of the U.S. population? He’s saying to 94 percent of Americans, ‘I don’t give a damn about you, you are ineligible,'” Cruz said. Cruz also noted that he felt the commitment was offensive to black women. “And he’s also saying — it’s actually an insult to black women,” Cr...
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On Sunday, conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied claims that the decisions from the high court are influenced by partisan views. “My goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks,” Barrett said at a speech at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center. “Judicial philosophies are not the same as political parties.” Barrett’s speech came just a few weeks after the Supreme Court issued a series of controversial decisions. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court allowed Texas to let private citizens sue to enforce its ban on a...
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has rejected a plea from Indiana University students to stop the school from instating a vaccine mandate. Barrett, who most likely made the decision without consulting other justices, did not give a reason for rejecting the request. This plea from students marks the first case about vaccine requirements to reach the Supreme Court. Indiana University announced in May that all faculty, students and staff would need to be vaccinated before returning to campus unless they had a medical or religious exemption. Judge Frank Easterbrook, who wrote in the 7t...
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has signed a $2 million deal with Sentinel, a branch of Penguin Random House. The $2 million advance is the largest sum paid to a Supreme Court Justice for their memoir. Legal experts call the book deal poorly timed and problematic for a Supreme Court already under heightened scrutiny. While Barrett’s deal is legal, the massive $2 million advance will likely prove poor optics, as explained by Charles Geyh, a judicial ethics specialist and professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. “Judge Barrett may be confident that the book project wi...
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The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 in emergency midnight rulings late Wednesday to block New York state from reimposing limits on religious gatherings, indicating the court’s first partisan shift since the addition of a new conservative member.Wednesday night’s orders were the first indication of the high court’s conservative tilt since right-wing Justice Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s newest appointee, filled the seat last month that late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had occupied.In May and July, the Supreme Court rejected several challenges to virus-related restrictions. Th...
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Justice Clarence Thomas administered Amy Coney Barrett‘s official constitutional oath on Monday evening, formally swearing the conservative judge onto the court, effectively giving the court a 6-3 conservative majority.“This is a momentous day for America, for the United States Constitution, and for the fair and impartial rule of law,” President Donald Trump said to the socially distanced crowd on the South Lawn of the White House, ahead of the oath. “She is one of our nation’s most brilliant legal scholars and she will make an outstanding justice on the highest court in our land.”The few hund...
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said Wednesday that he has already voted in the 2020 presidential election – and that he did not vote for President Donald Trump.The Utah senator has long been at odds with Trump. Romney was the lone GOP senator to vote to convict Trump for abuse of power during his impeachment trial.Recently, the acrimony between the two had grown worse. Romney blasted Trump in a statement for refusing to denounce QAnon, a radical far-left terrorist organization, during the NBC News townhall last week.In a statement released Friday, Romney said, “The president’s unwillingness to deno...
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Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee boycotted a key vote in Amy Coney Barrett‘s confirmation process on Thursday as part of a political statement against the hearings, which many Democrats view as illegitimate. The Republicans on the committee voted 12-0 without their progressive counterparts.Filling the seats of the missing Democrats were ten large portraits of constituents who had personally benefitted from the Affordable Care Act, which is scheduled to be before the Supreme Court on Nov. 10. Opponents of Barrett argue she poses a threat to the ACA, reproductive care and gay rights.“...
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