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A bill that could entirely change the composition of the Supreme Court was introduced by a group of Democratic senators. The bill places a focused lens on court ethics and its conservative supermajority. The bill would appoint a new Supreme Court justice every two years. The justice would be able to attend hearings for every case for 18 years but would have to step back after that and only hear a “small number of constitutionally required cases.” “The Supreme Court is facing a crisis of legitimacy that is exacerbated by radical decisions at odds with established legal precedent, ethical lapses...
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has come under further scrutiny this week after Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) revealed that documents given to the committee showed that Thomas profited from the majority or all of the $267,000 loan forgiven to buy his luxury RV by a wealthy friend. Thomas is currently under scrutiny for allegedly concealing numerous gifts and vacations. The justice took at least 38 vacations, 26 private jet flights, eight helicopter flights and dozens of sports passes without reporting them as required by law. The trips included luxury vacations t...
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President Joe Biden has always touted the benefits of state universities and questioned the superiority of Ivy League colleges. Now, the University of Delaware alum has instructed the Education Department to conduct a civil rights investigation into Harvard’s legacy admissions process. While on his 2020 campaign trail, Biden acknowledged that he would be the first president without an Ivy League degree since Ronald Reagan, who attended Eureka College. “I went to the University of Delaware, and I was proud of it,” said Biden to a crowd in Toledo, Ohio. “Hard to get there, hard to get through in...
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Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s order to redraw congressional districts to give minority voters a larger say in elections, Alabama Republicans rejected motions to craft a second majority-black district and instead proposed a map testing the justices’ ruling. The group met on Monday to redraw Alabama’s existing map, which the Supreme Court deemed a violation of the Voting Rights Act in June. The lawmakers needed to complete the redistricting by Friday, per the decision last month. In 2022, a lower court panel ruled that Alabama should have another majority-black congressional district in the s...
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Demand Justice, a left-leaning advocacy group, is supporting Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson‘s nomination to the Supreme Court by launching a million dollar ad to support her confirmation. Demand Justice wants to restore what they say is “ideological balance” to American courts by supporting liberal judicial nominees. The message of their ad says “when you have one of the most qualified Supreme Court nominees ever, there’s only one thing to do: confirm her.” The ad shows GOP senators who voted for Jackson’s previous nomination – Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and ...
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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer made this retirement official at the White House Thursday afternoon. He reflected on his time on the court and his hopes for democracy and the generations to come. “It’s you, my friend. It’s you, Mr. high school student. It’s you, Mr. college student. It’s you, Mr. law school students. It’s us, but it’s you,” Breyer said. “It’s that next generation and the one after that. My grandchildren and their children. They’ll determine whether the experiment (democracy) still works and, of course, I’m an optimist and I am pretty sure it will.” The Bill Clinton-nomine...
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Members of a commission appointed by President Joe Biden are “seriously considering” proposals for an 18-year Supreme Court justice term limit, according to a 200-page draft released Thursday. Though the commission did not make any explicit recommendations, it did discuss some possible consequences of potential changes made to the Court’s functioning. One draft paper read: “Commissioners are divided on whether court expansion would be wise. The risks of court expansion are considerable, including that it could undermine the very goal of some of its proponents of restoring the court’s legitimac...
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The Department of Justice has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the Texas abortion law which essentially outlaws abortions in the state after an appeals court allowed it to remain in effect. The DOJ argued that the bill could cause “substantial harm to the United States’ sovereign interests and would disserve the public interest.” The DOJ added: “If Texas’s scheme is permissible, no constitutional right is safe from state-sanctioned sabotage of this kind.” The Texas ban makes abortions illegal as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected. Most abortions after six weeks are illegal under this n...
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On Friday, Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia allowed the Biden administration’s replacement eviction ban to stay in effect, explaining that she lacked authority to block a public health policy. Friedrich said she did not believe that the administration will prevail in the Supreme Court. Roughly 6.5 million renters’ households are believed to be behind on their rent payments, according to the Census survey. The moratorium is expected to stay in place until October 3. “The Administration believes that CDC’s new moratorium is a proper use of its ...
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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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