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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts takes a page out of Trump’s playbook.
1 week ago

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts takes a page out of Trump’s playbook.

Slate  

Amicus is gingerly stepping into 2025 and into the coming onslaught of Trump 2.0 with one of the country’s very best legal, constitutional and human guides—civil rights litigator and 14th Amendment scholar Sherrilyn Ifill. In his end of year judicial report, Chief Justice John Roberts chose to claim the mantle of both embattled civil rights champions and also infallible monarchs …

Court Slate Plus
Gaetz is gone, but will SCOTUS bless Trump trampling the Senate?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Gaetz is gone, but will SCOTUS bless Trump trampling the Senate?

Slate  

If you had forgotten the chaos of Trump 1.0, the frenzied first two weeks of transition to Trump 2.0 has surely been a stark reminder. A pair of random billionaires are claiming in advance that SCOTUS will back their extra-governmental plans for a slash and burn policy for federal agencies; accusations of sexual misconduct swirl around cabinet picks; nominations are …

Trump Slate Plus
Trump’s mass deportation promise is based on a dangerous law that is still on the books.
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump’s mass deportation promise is based on a dangerous law that is still on the books.

Slate  

It’s easy to dismiss nativist rhetoric as mere Trumpy “locker room talk.” But when it comes to immigration, deportation, and even detention, rhetoric about foreigners and violent invaders is actually a legal long game. Toward the end of the summer of 2023, Katherine Yon Ebright, counsel in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, noticed that right-wing anti-immigration groups …

Trump Slate Podcasts
From voting rights to guns to abortion, the Supreme Court originalist majority has caused chaos.
8 months ago

From voting rights to guns to abortion, the Supreme Court originalist majority has caused chaos.

Slate  

Get your tickets for Amicus Live in Washington DC here. This week they’re trying to understand the mechanisms of what Professor Saul Cornell calls “the originalism industrial complex” and how those mechanisms plug into the highest court in the land. They’re also asking how and why liberals failed to find an effective answer to originalism, even as the various “originalist” …

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s dangerous myth-making: The origins of originalism.
8 months, 1 week ago

The U.S. Supreme Court’s dangerous myth-making: The origins of originalism.

Slate  

In this, the first part of a special series on Amicus and at Slate.com, we are lifting the lid on an old-timey sounding method of constitutional interpretation that has unleashed a revolution in our courts, and an assault on our rights. But originalism’s origins are much more recent than you suppose, and its effects much more widespread than the constitutional …

Originalism
Supreme Court rules Trump can be on the Colorado ballot: What it means for the 2024 election.
55 years ago

Supreme Court rules Trump can be on the Colorado ballot: What it means for the 2024 election.

Slate  

This episode is member-exclusive. By joining, not only will you unlock exclusive SCOTUS analysis and extended episodes of Amicus, but you’ll also access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. The Supreme Court ruled early Monday that alleged insurrectionist Donald Trump can remain on the Colorado republican primary ballot, and that no state may remove him, even if they …

Trump 2024 Election
Ginni Thomas 'intertwined' with 'vast' campaign pressuring Supreme Court to overturn Roe: report
2 years, 4 months ago

Ginni Thomas 'intertwined' with 'vast' campaign pressuring Supreme Court to overturn Roe: report

Raw Story  

Ginni Thomas is once again at the center of controversy and accusations of conflict of interest after an analysis of the 74 amicus briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court aimed at overturning Roe v Wade found she was linked to just over half of the legal entreaties to end a woman’s right to choose. “A new analysis of the …

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