Daily Supreme Court News Briefing - September 25, 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 25, 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
Marcellus Williams
NBC: Missouri to execute death row inmate after Supreme Court denies last-minute appeal
Newsweek: Supreme Court Blasted After Marcellus Williams Execution
Kaitlin Lewis reports on criticism of the Supreme Court’s conservative justices who “are under fire for refusing to halt the execution of Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams, who died by lethal injection Tuesday evening.”
Immunity Hearing
Roll Call: Senate Democrats bash Supreme Court’s Trump immunity ruling
Ryan Tarinelli reports on Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling. He notes that Democrats decried the dangerous and unusual nature of the ruling while Republicans brushed the hearing off as unfounded attacks on the Court.
Also covered by: The Hill
Election
Slate: The Supreme Court Is Handling the Election Differently Than in 2020. Uh-Oh.
Dahlia Lithwick writes about recent reporting on Chief Justice John Roberts and speaks to Linda Greenhouse to “unpack what this new reporting tells us about the chief justice of the United States, his agenda, and what it means for the flotilla of election cases inevitably headed the high court’s way in the coming weeks.”
Slate: Georgia’s Election Is Headed for Potential Disaster. Thank the Supreme Court.
Katherine Culliton-González and Donald K. Sherman write about the disastrous impact of the Supreme Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act on elections in Georgia this year.
Ethics
Reuters: US Supreme Court justices, other judges can stay at corporate-owned homes without disclosure
Nate Raymond reports on an amended rule issued by the Judicial Conference on Monday that says “U.S. Supreme Court justices and federal judges on lower courts do not have to publicly disclose when they dine or stay at someone's personal residence, even one owned by a business entity.”
Trump
New York Times: Judge Rejects Trump’s Last-Minute Bid to Delay Assessment of Jan. 6 Case
Alan Feuer reports that on Tuesday federal Judge Chutkan “rejected an effort by former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers to push off until after November an assessment of whether the indictment accusing Mr. Trump of plotting to overturn the 2020 election can survive the Supreme Court’s ruling granting him broad immunity from prosecution.”
Vox: How would a second Trump presidency change America’s courts?
Ian Millhiser argues that a second Trump presidency could turn our courts even more so into “incubators for far-right policy ideas,” but he questions whether Trump would appoint more nihilistic judges like Kacsmaryk and Cannon, or more pragmatic conservative judges like Brett Kavanaugh.
Keep making good trouble! Everyone deserves to vote and thrive!
Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)
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