Daily Supreme Court News Briefing - August 30, 2024

🗽Supreme Court updates to help us hold our leaders accountable. A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 30, 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 

Slate: Does the First Amendment Protect A.I.? The Supreme Court May Soon Have Its Say.

• Mekela Panditharatne reports on recent Supreme Court rulings that elucidate the justices’ views on artificial intelligence. 

The Hill: Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to appear on Colbert’s ‘Late Show’

• Elizabeth Crisp reports that Justice Jackson is “scheduled to appear on CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” next week to mark the release of her memoir.” 

New York Times: With Court Victories, Conservatives Push Back on Biden Policies

• Hamed Aleaziz and Michael D. Shear report on how conservatives have used the federal courts to push back on Biden administration policies they don’t like, including student loan debt relief. 

CommonDreams: The Corrupt Right-Wing Supreme Court Is the Cancer at the Heart of US Democracy

• Thom Hartmann argues that the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court is at the heart of problems facing our democracy and have been a primary barrier to progress. He says a Harris-Walz administration should work on reigning in the Court immediately, if elected. 

New York Times: Prisoner With Parkinson’s Is Executed After Supreme Court Paves the Way

• Abbie VanSickle reports that “a 57-year-old Florida man who had argued that lethal injection would cause “needless pain and suffering” because he has Parkinson’s disease was executed on Thursday evening after the Supreme Court rejected a last-minute request to halt the proceeding.” 

Trump 

Washington Post: Prosecutors test the Supreme Court’s limits on Trump and Jan. 6

• Jason Willick argues that the latest indictment against President Trump is pushing the limits of the Supreme Court’s ruling and that Democrats are attempting to keep the ruling at the forefront of the public’s minds. 

NBC: Trump seeks to move hush money case to federal court in effort to delay sentencing

• Lisa Rubin and Phil Helsel report that on Thursday Donald Trump’s lawyers argued again that “his criminal hush money case should be heard in federal rather than state court, a move that could end up delaying the former president's sentencing date next month.” 

Election 

Slate: The Supreme Court Just Signaled What It Will Do If the Election Is Close

• Norman L. Eisen and Jacob Kovacs-Goodman write about the Supreme Court’s ruling in Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota and what it shows about how the justices might rule in an election case in November. They say “the justices are in cahoots with former President Donald Trump and may be prepared to meddle in the election—unless it is decided by margins too large to tamper with.” 

Court Reform 

Sacramento Bee: It’s undemocratic that we still don’t have term limits for Supreme Court Justices | Opinion

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