Daily Supreme Court News Briefing - July 23, 2024
🗽Supreme Court updates to help us hold our leaders accountable. A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 23, 2024
People Power United declares the Supreme Court has become unhinged.
In response to recent Supreme Court shenanigans, People Power United - a progressive grassroots group - issued the following statement:
“The Supreme Court has become unhinged. There is no power like that of the people, and People Power United stands ready to protect our communities against any and all injustices,” said Laurie Woodward García of People Power United.
People Power United will continue to oppose such harm to our community and champion civil rights for all.
Daily Supreme Court News Briefing
Kamala Harris
Truthout: Harris Has Expressed Being “Open” to Supreme Court Expansion
Chris Walker outlines Harris’s approach to the Supreme Court, including statements she made in the past about being “open” to conversations about expansion.
Vox: Could Republicans sue to keep Biden on the ballot?
Ian Millhiser considers the viability of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s threats to sue to keep President Biden on the ballot. He says this should be nonsense, but that this Supreme Court’s erratic and partisan behavior could give it legitimacy.
Washington Post: Kamala Harris said 19 words in 2018 that taught us all we need to know
Monica Hesse recalls Kamala Harris’s question to Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings, in which she asked “Can you think of any laws that give the government the power to make decisions about the male body?” She says we can extrapolate what kind of candidate and president she would be.
Court Reform
Washington Post: $30 million gift will fund center to push for Supreme Court overhaul
Justin Jouvenal reports on a $30 million gift from “private equity investor Jim Kohlberg [that] will fund research, public outreach and policy advocacy on the Supreme Court, through the Brennan Center for Justice.”
General
Slate: The Supreme Court Can’t Outrun Clarence Thomas’ Terrible Guns Opinion
Barry Friedman and Dahlia Lithwick discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling in Rahimi and how it demonstrates the chaos caused by Rahimi. They highlight the disagreement amongst the conservative justices about how originalism is actually supposed to work.
Slate: The U.S. Supreme Court Doesn’t Have to Be This Way. Just Look at Canada!
Dahlia Lithwick speaks to retired Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella about term limits, ethics rules, and other high courts’ approaches to jurisprudence.
Forbes: Supreme Court Rescues The Constitution
Steve Forbes praises the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Chevron.
NBC: Democratic senators seek to reverse Supreme Court ruling that restricts federal agency power
Lawrence Hurley reports that Sen. Elizabeth Warren and nine other Democrats are “introducing a bill that would effectively undo a court ruling that overturned the 40-year Chevron precedent.”
Lower Courts
The Hill: Federal judges are mirroring the Supreme Court on financial disclosures
Steven Lubet argues that the Supreme Court is setting a bad example for lower court judges when it comes to recusals and financial disclosures, pointing to recent examples.
New Appeals/Requests
Devan Cole reports that on Monday the Biden administration “asked the Supreme Court to let it enforce new anti-discrimination rules in schools, including protections for pregnant women and women who have had abortions.”
The Hill: DOJ asks Supreme Court to partially restore Biden Title IX rule in Republican-led states
Brooke Migdon reports that on Monday the Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court “to take emergency action to restore parts of President Biden’s Title IX rule in a handful of Republican-led states where the new regulations are blocked, arguing that lower court injunctions pausing the rule in its entirety are “more burdensome” than necessary.”
Rejected Appeals
Newsweek: Supreme Court Justices Refuse to Reconsider Their Decisions
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