Daily Supreme Court News Briefing - October 2, 2024
🗽A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 2, 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.
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Daily Supreme Court News Briefing
Court Reform
The New Republic: Take Trump’s Plan to Jail the Supreme Court’s Critics Seriously
Jay Willis urges readers to take Trump’s promise to jail Supreme Court critics seriously, as this obvious violation of First Amendment rights is an “embrace of the authoritarian-curious inclinations that fuel his political movement.” He argues in favor of Supreme Court expansion to cut short the dangerous power Trump and the Republican Party have consolidated in the Court.
The Conversation: A President Harris Might Not Get Any Supreme Court Picks
Kevin J. McMahon argues in favor of President Biden’s 18-year term limits proposal, saying it would set the Court back on a routine it had historically followed and would ensure that Harris would get to appoint justices to the Court if she wins the election.
General
NPR: San Francisco ramps up policing of homeless camps, with the Supreme Court's blessing
Martin Kaste reports on the “crackdown” on homeless encampments in cities like San Francisco after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Grants Pass upheld laws that criminalized camping on public property.
MSNBC: Eric Adams hopes Supreme Court’s curbing of corruption prosecutions helps gut his own
Jordan Rubin reports that the Supreme Court’s ruling last term in Snyder v. United States narrowing “the use of federal bribery law against state and local officials” could help Eric Adams in his recent indictment.
Slate: How Committed Is the Supreme Court to Executing Innocent People?
Mark Joseph Stern speaks with Madiba Dennie, deputy editor at Balls and Strikes and author of The Originalism Trap about the Supreme Court’s recent refusal to stop the execution of Marcellus Williams, as well as the case of Richard Glossip, which the Court will hear this term.
Guns
Slate: The Supreme Court Could Strike Down One of the Most Effective Gun Safety Measures in Recent Memory
Mark Joseph Stern speaks to Eric Tirschwell, executive director and chief litigation counsel of Everytown Law, about Garland v. VanDerStok, in which the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next week. This case takes on the Biden administration’s restrictions on “ghost guns,” which are “fully functioning firearms that are disproportionately used to commit murder, domestic abuse, and terrorism.”
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