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Mother Jones - 13 hours 30 min agoJust a week after the Supreme Court effectively destroyed the key remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act, Tennessee on Thursday is set to become the first Southern state to pass a new redistricting map eliminating a majority-Black district. The hastily drawn map abolishes the state's last Democratic district by splitting the city of Memphis, […]...
Republicans in the South Carolina state House voted on Wednesday to extend their legislative calendar, leaving the door open to drawing new congressional lines after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling rattled the redistricting arms race. The extension must also pass the state Senate. If it does, it could put the Palmetto State on a path...
Mother Jones - 13 hours 47 min agoNothing is new and history repeats. When the Supreme Court delivered a death blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act last month, endangering the project of multiracial democracy that flowed from the Second Reconstruction of the 1960s, it did so by using many of the same logical and illogical devices the high court deployed to help end […]...
Slate - 13 hours 51 min agoThis season investigates the most consequential vote on the most powerful Supreme Court in modern history.
Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch says his new children's book aims to combat declining civic literacy among young people across the United States.
Like much of his generation, the first Baby Boomer put on the Supreme Court has refused to let go of power.
"I think, at a very basic level, people think we're making policy decisions, we're saying we think this is how things should be."...
ABC News - 14 hours 41 min agoSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is now the second longest-serving justice in history, overtaking someone who was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln...
Mother Jones - 14 hours 46 min agoMedication abortion is back at the US Supreme Court which is exactly where abortion opponents want it. Last week, in a late Friday afternoon move guaranteed to stoke maximum confusion and panic, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a Food and Drug Administration rule allowing telemedicine prescription of mifepristone, one of two drugs that make […]...
Chief Justice John Roberts says people fundamentally misunderstand the Supreme Court's role, insisting justices interpret law rather than make policy.
The redistricting craze has both major parties scrambling to gain an edge on the midterm House elections.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting the Voting Rights Act has some Democrats asking whether California could go further in redrawing maps to target GOP districts.
The first baby boomer on the Supreme Court hit a milestone on Thursday, becoming the second-longest serving justice in history at a time when his influence has never seemed greater. Once an outlier on the nation's highest court, Justice Clarence Thomas has become a towering figure in the conservative legal...
Slate - 17 hours 41 min agoThis week's Executive Dysfunction.
ABC News - 18 hours 25 min agoChief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court justices are not "political actors."...
NPR - 18 hours 39 min agoThe Alabama Legislature has spent the week debating the state's congressional maps. Democratic lawmakers have argued their voting powers are being diluted because of a Supreme Court ruling.
President Trump's lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, has asked a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award. The lawyer, Justin D. Smith, asked the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing Tuesday to...
Chief Justice John Roberts wants Americans to know he doesn't see the Supreme Court the way some critics might. Speaking Wednesday at a legal conference in Hershey, Pa., Roberts said many people wrongly believe the justices are "political actors" choosing outcomes based on policy preferences rather than legal analysis, NBC...
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