AvatarCI3 days agoSupreme Court rejects Trump ally Mike Lindell's appeal in 2020 election lawsuitNBC News - Lawrence HurleyThe Supreme Court on Monday rejected MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s bid to fend off a defamation lawsuit the voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems filed over his far-fetched claims about the 2020 presidential election. The justices’ decision not to hear the case means a federal judge’s ruling …
AvatarCI3 days agoThe Supreme Court Is On The Verge Of Killing The Voting Rights Actverified_publisherFiveThirtyEight - Amelia Thomson-DeVeauxThe beginning of the end for the Voting Rights Act started more than 30 years ago. On Oct. 4, the end of the end is likely to begin. This term, the …
AvatarCI3 days agoThe Supreme Court will begin a new term with more contentious cases on its docketverified_publisherNPR - Nina TotenbergAfter a tumultuous term that ended in June, the U.S. Supreme Court returns Monday to officially open a second potentially stormy term. It may be hard to beat last term's sustained and dramatic turn to the right, which included most prominently the overturning of a half century of precedents that had …
AvatarCI4 days agoA shaken Supreme Court returns to chambersverified_publisherPOLITICO - By Josh GersteinCan a court riven by ideological divisions, security threats and a leak probe ever get back to normal? When a nondescript man with a scraggly beard sauntered up to prominent race scholar and professor Cornel West at a religious liberty conference in Rome in July, West wasn’t exactly sure who he was …
AvatarCIJustice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade, says his Catholic faith makes him mindful of 'real world' impact of SCOTUS decisionsverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Erin SnodgrassSupreme Court Justice Samuel Alito this week said his Catholic faith forces him to scrutinize the impact that the high court's decisions have on everyday people. The conservative judge earlier this year penned the majority opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively gutting the nearly 50-year …
AvatarCIBreyer: "Very, very, very sorry" about Dobbs decisionAxios - Erin DohertyFormer Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, in his first televised interview since retiring from the bench in June, lamented the court's reversal of …
