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US Supreme Court Won’t Hear Parents’ Challenge To Maryland Schools’ Secret Gender Transitioning Policy

Posted by Jane Coleman on May 21, 2024 25 Comments

The Court declined to address an issue that is "roiling parents and school districts from Maine to California": Do secret gender transitioning policies violate parents' fundamental rights?...

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Desperate Biden Panders to NAACP, Compares Conservative SCOTUS Justices to Segregationists

Posted by Stacey Matthews on May 19, 2024 32 Comments

"Today, the resistance comes in other insidious forms. An extreme movement led by my predecessor and his MAGA Republican allies, backed by an extreme Supreme Court, gutted affirmative action in college admissions." ...

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Equal Protection Project Files Supreme Court Brief Supporting School Parents First Amendment Rights (Update: SCOTUS Declines Review)

Posted by James Nault on May 07, 2024 2 Comments

EPP had urged SCOTUS to take the case of parents denied the right to record school conferences: "parents who have inquired into secretive school policies have been sued, charged with outrageous financial bills simply for requesting school records that are statutorily mandated to be open...

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Trump SCOTUS Immunity Argument – Consensus Is Trump Likely To Get At Least A Partial Win

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2024 138 Comments

My quick take: "I think they will simply find ...

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Will They Stay or Will They Go? SCOTUS Hears Argument On Constitutionality of Anti-Camping Ordinance Applied to the Homeless

Posted by Terrance Kible on April 23, 2024 36 Comments

The parties argued over whether applying the anti-camping ordinance against people without access to shelter was inherently cruel and unusual in violation of the Eighth Amendment...

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Duke U. Ending a Scholarship Program for Black Students in Wake of Affirmative Action Ruling

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 16, 2024 3 Comments

"Reggie Scholars were informed of the plan to end the program in a Tuesday meeting."...

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Joe Biden is Trying to Buy Student Votes With Our Tax Dollars

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 09, 2024 58 Comments

Joe Biden just announced that he is pushing even further on 'forgiving' student loan debt to the tune of billions. When talking about the issue, Biden even acknowledges that the U.S. Supreme Court told him that he didn't have the power to do this but that he is doing it anyway.

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Biden DOJ Accused of Delaying Easy Case Against Man Who Wanted to Assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 07, 2024 24 Comments

"It’s noteworthy that after nearly two years, there is still no trial date or plea agreement in this case"...

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Then The Liberals Came For Sonia Sotomayor

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2024 123 Comments

Pressure mounting for her to retire to avoid a Ginsburg scenario. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT): “We should learn a lesson. And it’s not like there’s any mystery here about what the lesson should be. The old saying — graveyards are full of indispensable people, ourselves...

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Supreme Court Issues Guidelines As To When Public Officials Can Block Constituents on Social Media

Posted by Terrance Kible on March 19, 2024 18 Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court issued two opinions on Friday resolving a First Amendment conflict in the lower courts over public officials' social media use. The Court unanimously held that officials using personal social media accounts to share personal and government information may block constituents under some circumstances. Legal Insurrection covered oral arguments in the cases.

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Supreme Court Extends the Stay on Texas Immigration Law ‘Pending Further Order’

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 18, 2024 56 Comments

SCOTUS will take action but we do not know when it will happen. ...

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Supreme Court Hears Argument in Biden Administration Social Media Coercion Case

Posted by James Nault on March 18, 2024 35 Comments

With the liberal and conservative wings of the Court entrenched, Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett likely to decide outcome of the case...

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Groundswell of Second Amendment Cases Seems Destined for the Supreme Court

Posted by James Nault on March 17, 2024 50 Comments

Federal courts in blue states seem to be upholding the majority of gun control laws, even after landmark Supreme Court decisions upholding the fundamental right to keep and bear arms...

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Multiple Universities in Ohio Reviewing Race-Based Scholarships

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 12, 2024 0 Comments

“The University of Toledo has paused the distribution of scholarships that consider race as a part of their award criteria following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the use of affirmative action in higher education admissions”...

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Oil Companies Ask SCOTUS to Review Hawaii Supreme Court Decision Allowing Climate Change Suits to Proceed

Posted by James Nault on March 07, 2024 35 Comments

Supreme Court asked to review case with the goal of applying federal, not state, law to climate change lawsuits...

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UPDATE: Supreme Court Reverses Fifth Circuit, Temporarily Halts Texas Immigration Law

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 04, 2024 34 Comments

The DOJ claimed the stay should be vacated because Texas won't suffer any comparable harm as litigation proceeds. I'd laugh if we didn't have a border crisis....

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Supreme Court Unanimously Reinstates Trump to Colorado Ballot

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2024 179 Comments

"Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse."...

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Supreme Court Colorado Trump Ballot Decision Expected Monday Morning

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2024 53 Comments

The Supreme Court has announced that it will release a single Opinion on Monday, March 4, 2024. Since the Colorado primary is on March 5, Super Tuesday, everyone is assuming the Court wants to get the decision out before Tuesday....

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