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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Alito and Thomas, however, criticized this approach, insisting that lower courts should not use standing as “a way of avoiding some particularly contentious constitutional questions.” In their view, the court should have followed Troxel v. Granville and considered how …

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The Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday in Skrmetti v. U.S., a case of such immense importance to constitutional equality and with such devastating potential consequences that it’s hard to even describe. It is also, fundamentally, a case about gender equality, and whether constitutional limitations on sex discrimination can survive the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority. The statute itself declares that …

Law letting Tennessee attorney general argue certain capital cases is constitutional, court rules

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Tennessee law giving the appointed state attorney general authority to argue certain death penalty cases and removing that power from the hands of locally elected district attorneys is constitutional, an appeals court has ruled. Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy, who stepped into the case on behalf of McKay and other district attorneys across the state, …