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Will Bunch: The Supreme Court has a giant legitimacy crisis, which means so does America

Earlier this month, a speech warning about the dangers of politicizing the U.S. Supreme Court was delivered in Utah by an authoritative, insider source, who cautioned that "[a]t some point the institution is going to be compromised." He voiced his growing concern that eventually we could "chip away at the…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Dems press Thomas on recusal

The call for removal was prompted by Ginni Thomas's involvement in aiding attempts to overturn the election

Salon

Tradition and Compelling Interests in Religion Cases

Justice Kavanaugh argues for historical practice as a check on judicial intuition

Reason

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas participates in hearings by phone after release from hospital

73-year-old planning on taking part in decisions of cases he missed arguments for while away

The Independent UK

Rick Scott battles Fox host who calls out his false claim about tax plan

Senator’s ‘11 point plan’ has been roundly rejected by Democrats and even Mitch McConnell

The Independent UK

Justice Thomas joins arguments remotely after hospital stay

Justice Clarence Thomas participated in arguments at the Supreme Court via telephone on Monday following a hospital stay of nearly a week

The Independent UK

Republican senator says tax rises in own plan are ‘Democratic talking points’

Rick Scott of Florida grilled on Fox News Sunday about suggested income tax rise and letting social security and Medicare fall

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Ginni Thomas texts show Supreme Court needs ethics rules, Klobuchar says

WASHINGTON — Sen. Amy Klobuchar called for the Supreme Court to adopt the same ethics standards as lower courts after revelations that a conservative justice’s wife was active in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Tribune News Service

Can woolgrowers ride an activewear boom out of the industry’s pandemic bust?

As locked-down white-collar workers swapped office wear for tracksuits, wool prices took a tumble

The Guardian - AU

Michael Hiltzik: Obamacare has been an economic boon, but some red states still don't get the message

Every anniversary of Obamacare's enactment is an occasion to take stock of the landmark legislation's positive impact on Americans.

Los Angeles Times

Justices decide for themselves when to step aside from cases

Reports that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas implored Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff to act to overturn the 2020 election results have put a spotlight on how justices decide whether to step aside from a case

The Independent UK

Justice Breyer says Clarence Thomas is doing ‘fine’ following hospitalisation for ‘infection’

Justice was taken to hospital on Friday night for ‘infection,’ court says

The Independent UK

POINT: It’s time to stop racial discrimination in college admissions

In a 2007 Supreme Court decision involving a school district in Seattle, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

Tribune News Service

High court nominee says she'd skip Harvard race case

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson says that if confirmed to the Supreme Court she’d sit out an affirmative action lawsuit over Harvard’s admission policies because she sits on the board of her college alma mater

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Clarence Thomas absent from Supreme Court for third straight day following hospitalisation for ‘infection’

Justice was taken to hospital on Friday night for ‘infection,’ court says

The Independent UK

High court won't say whether Thomas remains hospitalized

The Supreme Court is declining to say whether 73-year-old Justice Clarence Thomas remains in the hospital

The Independent UK

How long do Supreme Court justices serve and what is the current political balance?

Newly confirmed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will sit on high court following retirement of Stephen Breyer

Salon

Behind the right's racist KBJ assault

Author and scholar Elie Mystal on our deeply flawed Constitution and the long, dark history of legal racism

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Tribune News Service

North Carolina GOP pushes legal theory that would change elections nationwide. Why it might work.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican lawmakers lost their recent U.S. Supreme Court appeal to stop the 2022 elections from being held using district maps the lawmakers didn’t get to draw themselves. But some in the party hope Monday’s ruling is just the first step in a coming legal fight, and not…

Birmingham Post

US investment giant continues to up stake in online electricals retailer AO

The firm is AO's second largest shareholder, behind CEO and founder John Roberts

The Guardian - US

The US supreme court is letting racist discrimination run wild in the election system

The court has approved or tolerated massive voter roll purges, extreme gerrymandering and election laws that have a disparate impact on minorities

Tribune News Service

Chief Justice John Roberts’ grip slips as Supreme Court conservatives curb voting rights

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts was once in the vanguard as the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back the Voting Rights Act. But as his more conservative colleagues showed this week in restoring a Republican-drawn Alabama congressional map, Roberts is no longer in control.

The Conversation

Don't pay too much attention to guesses about how US Supreme Court will vote on abortion rights – experts are often wrong

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will not be handed down until late spring or early summer 2022, when the court typically issues verdicts.

Tribune News Service

Noah Feldman: This Supreme Court won’t uphold college affirmative action

A revolution in university admissions appears to be at hand.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Much as Trump tries to obstruct Jan. 6 inquiry, Supreme Court won't play along

During his single presidential term, Donald Trump had a penchant for referring to federal judges and Supreme Court justices as though they ruled based on loyalty to the presidents who nominated them. Thus, Trump suggested, there were “Obama judges” and Trump judges. In 2018, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a…

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