Daily Supreme Court News Briefing - July 9, 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 9, 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
Supreme Court Term
New York Times: Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Independent Streak Marked Supreme Court Term
Adam Liptak writes about Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who this term “often questioned [the conservative majority’s] approach and wrote important dissents joined by liberal justices.”
ABC: Why the Supreme Court tends to release unpopular decisions late in its term
Cooper Burton and Katie Marriner write about possible reasons that the Supreme Court tends to release controversial rulings at the end of the term, including trying to create a narrative of congeniality by releasing unanimous rulings early in the term.
Slate: We Have a Theory About Why John Roberts Went Full MAGA This Term
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern speak with Professors Mary Anne Franks and Steve Vladeck about this Supreme Court term.
Court Reform
The Nation: It’s Impossible to Overstate the Damage Done by the Supreme Court in This Term
Elie Mystal argues that the outcomes of this Supreme Court term will be nearly impossible to undo or counteract without a serious commitment from Democrats to pass Supreme Court reforms.
The Hill: A long-game strategy to fix our broken Supreme Court
Steven Lubet argues that while Supreme Court expansion might not be a viable option right now, Democrats must keep it on their agenda to fix a broken Court.
New Republic: The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Stronger
Professor Holly Brewer argues that the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity should be all President Biden needs to announce his support for Court expansion.
General
Forbes: The Supreme Court’s Elimination Of The Chevron Doctrine Will Undermine Corporate Accountability
Michael Posner criticizes the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Chevron, saying that it will undermine efforts to regulate and hold corporations accountable.
Ian Millhiser argues that the Supreme Court’s rulings, ethics scandals, and trouble handling their workload this term are all evidence that this panel of judges is not competent.
Slate: Where’d All the Supreme Court’s Originalists Go for the Trump Cases?
David H. Gans argues that despite claims that the Supreme Court’s conservatives are originalists, they produced a number of “wildly atextual and ahistorical rulings in some of their biggest cases.”
Election
CNN: How Biden’s 2024 choice could reshape the Senate and Supreme Court for years
Ronald Brownstein analyzes the potential impacts of President Biden continuing or dropping out of the presidential race.
Washington Post: A House contest where race, gerrymandering and the Supreme Court loom large
Patrick Marley writes about the race in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District following the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing a gerrymandered map to be used.
Lower Courts and Judicial Nominations
New York Times: Federal Judge in Alaska Resigns Amid Accusations of Sexual Harassment
Mattathias Schwartz reports that on Monday Judge Joshua Kindred resigned after “investigators found that he had been abusive to his law clerks, had an “inappropriately sexualized relationship” with one of them and then lied about his misconduct.”
Reuters: US Senate confirms Maldonado to be first Hispanic judge on 7th Circuit
Nate Raymond reports on the confirmation of Nancy Maldonado to the 7th Circuit.
Trump
New York Times: Trump’s Next Supreme Court Picks Will Break the Mold
Jay Willis argues that if Trump gets a second term, his judicial picks will likely come from the extreme fringes of the conservative legal movement. He cites Trump’s public anger with White House lawyers and the DOJ, filled with Federalist Society recommendations, when they would not aid his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and his frustrations with his three Supreme Court appointees. He also notes that Trump’s inner circle of lawyers has also shifted much further right than Leonard Leo and other similar figures in the conservative legal movement.
The Hill: The Supreme Court has some explaining to do in Trump v. United States
William Becker argues that the Supreme Court should issue an advisory opinion explaining its ruling in Trump’s immunity case.
Axios: Behind the Curtain: Trump's dream regime
Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write about Republicans’, and Trump’s, dream regime, featuring a Republican controlled Congress, weakened administrative state, and a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court.
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