Daily Supreme Court News Briefing - September 4, 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 4, 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

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

New York Times by Abbie VanSickle, Justice Jackson Treads Carefully in Talking About the Supreme Court

• By contrast, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court was more forthcoming in her memoir about her upbringing in Miami, Matt Damon and her rise to the court.

ABC News Ketanji Brown Jackson says Harris's nomination 'gives a lot of people hope'

NPR by Tonya Mosley, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson shares the poem she's kept in every one of her offices

In every office she's ever had, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has kept a copy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Ladder of Saint Augustine." There's one stanza in particular that she likes:

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

"I love the idea that in order to be successful, it takes hard work," Jackson says. "You can't always control whether you're the smartest person in the room, for example, but you [can] commit to being the hardest worker."

Ginny Thomas

The Guardian by Ed Pilkington, Clarence Thomas’s wife thanks group for efforts to block court ethics reforms

ProPublica by by Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented, Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform: “Thank You So, So, So Much”

• In a call with donors, First Liberty Institute’s Kelly Shackelford read the supportive email he said came from Thomas. The leader of the religious-rights group also labeled Justice Elena Kagan “treasonous” for backing a stronger ethics code.

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