A news sampling of this week
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 5:35pmBefore looking at these tidbits, consider this.
SCOTUS
Republicans Target Our Children to Maintain Power into the Future
Submitted by Betty Clermont on Fri, 05/13/2022 - 8:25amCritical Race Theory, Don’t Say Gay, Grooming, Sexualizing Children, Woke Content of Textbooks, etc. are code words meant to stoke fear and provoke grievances, especially among parents, to get-out-the-vote for the Republican Party this November.
SCOTUS: It's all about the pro-Corporate agenda
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 05/07/2022 - 12:18pmLike most things in America today it's all about the money, even when we are talking about abortion.
NOTES FROM THE RADICAL MARGIN: “STOP THIS TWO-PARTY MUSIC!” OR, “WHAT HAPPENS AT GEORGETOWN PREP, STAYS AT GEORGETOWN PREP”.
Submitted by Heathen3B on Thu, 10/11/2018 - 1:16pmSo, Kavanaugh seals the deal of the Supreme Court among all the goodwill and collegiality required for the occasion. That is to say, he affirms the trend already set by a court which had pronounced Bush to be the “elected” President in 2000, and had decided that corporations were people just like us, and so on.
The Pro-trans bandwagon
Submitted by Robyn on Fri, 03/03/2017 - 12:52pmEighteen states and DC have banded together to file am amicus curiae brief in G. G. v Gloucester County School District at SCOTUS, which is scheduled to have oral arguments beginning March 28 (The brief is available at the link).
Signing up in favor of freedom
Submitted by Robyn on Sat, 02/25/2017 - 2:23pmAn amicus brief prepared by lawyers at the Human Rights campaign is expected to be filed with SCOTUS in the case of Grimm v Gloucester County School Board by March 2.
True liberty extends to all
Submitted by Robyn on Mon, 02/20/2017 - 6:20pmUtah civil rights attorney Samuel Wolf has responded to a SCOTUS brief filed in the case of Grimm v Gloucester County School District by the Mormon church with an op-ed in the Salt Lake City Tribune. In his editorial Wolfe denies the position that religious freedom is denied when transgender people are accorded rights.
Is this a way to kill Citizens United?
Submitted by Tony Wikrent on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 6:46pmJames Marc Leas is a patent attorney and a past co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild Palestine Subcommittee. On January 25, 2017, he posted The Supreme Court Supplied a Blueprint to Overcome "Citizens United" -- We Just Need to Use It. Perhaps not the best title, because we really don't expect anything decent to come out of SCOTUS.
#OneJusticeDown
Submitted by greywolfe359 on Tue, 01/24/2017 - 9:10pmAmong all the major headlines today, the one with the potential for the most lasting impact and damage is that Donald Trump has narrowed down his Supreme Court nominee list down to two or three and will formally nominate someone next week. The only reason he is set to nominate anyone at all, of course, is that the Republicans in the Senate refused to even hold a vote on President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland in an unprecedented maneuver last year.
Wherein I venture out onto a flimsy limb
Submitted by Robyn on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 3:21pmI totally admit I am no legal scholar and therefore would be better off avoiding analysis of possible SCOTUS nominees, but I see that rightwing voices are not so adept at such self-knowledge and may need to have their motives questioned.
It says here that PEOTUS (emphasis on the pee) met with one of his short-listers for Scalia's seat on Saturday.
