Daily Supreme Court News Briefing - September 3, 2024
🗽Supreme Court updates to help us hold our leaders accountable. A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 3, 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
General
Wall Street Journal: The Attack on the Filibuster and the Supreme Court
Letters to the editor.
Affirmative Action
NBC: First look at how college enrollment has changed since Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action
Justice Jackson
CBS: Highlights from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's first interview since joining the Supreme Court
David Morgan offers highlights from Justice Jackson’s first interview since being confirmed to the Supreme Court, including her comments on a code of ethics, presidential immunity, and her new book.
NBC: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's open to an 'enforceable' Supreme Court ethics code
Alexandra Marquez reports that in an interview with CBS, Justice Jackson said she is “open” to proposals to implement a binding code of ethics for the Supreme Court, questioning why the justices should be treated differently than other judges.
Also covered by: CNN, Politico
Washington Post: Ketanji Brown Jackson gives readers a tour of her meteoric rise
Rosa Brooks reviews Justice Jackson’s new memoir, Lovely Ones, which she says “showcases little of the feistiness that marks Jackson’s judicial pronouncements.”
New York Times: In ‘Lovely One,’ Ketanji Brown Jackson Credits the Mentors Who Lifted Her Up
Alexandra Jacobs reviews Lovely Ones, saying it is “about motivation and mentors, swooshing through a résumé without apparent flaw. It’s a great glass elevator of uplift.”
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