Picture two protests involving the American flag. In one of them, a star NFL quarterback kneels during the singing of the national anthem. The reason? To call attention to the true, real plight of Black Americans whose lives seem not to matter as much as white ones — part of …
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The backlash is mounting after The New York Times reported last week that an upside-down flag flew outside the house of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ahead of President Biden’s inauguration in January 2021. On Tuesday, a coalition of over 40 House Democrats sent a letter to Alito calling for …
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The crisis of confidence and partisan influence over the Supreme Court isn’t going away any time soon. According to a Thursday report from The New York Times, in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, neighbors of the Supreme Court judge noticed that the American flag outside of his …
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United for Democracy, a coalition of progressive groups and labor unions, is gearing up to launch a $10 million persuasion and base activation campaign centered on “the MAGA Supreme Court.” The coalition will spend $1 million on ads in Arizona and Pennsylvania, as well as in the Washington, D.C., area, …
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JusticeClarence Thomas took the opportunity during a judicial conference in Alabama on Friday to criticize the “nastiness” and “lies” he’s faced following bombshell reports that conservative megadonor Harlan Crow had funded the justice’s lavish lifestyle for decades. According to Politico, while addressing a room of judges, attorneys and other court …
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The consulting firm led by Leonard Leo, the architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, has worked for billionaire Charles Koch’s political advocacy network and a dark-money group that is currently arguing a Supreme Court case designed to preempt a wealth tax, according to documents obtained by Rolling Stone. The …
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The women on the Supreme Court appeared to band together Wednesday during oral arguments in a case out of Idaho that could shape how hospitals in Republican-led states respond to life-threatening pregnancy complications. Even conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic abortion opponent, had some fierce inquiries for Idaho Solicitor …
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As Donald Trump sat through another day of damning testimony in his criminal hush-money trial, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in his bid to establish widespread presidential immunity from criminal prosecution over “official” acts committed in office. The case before the Supreme Court stems from Trump’s ongoing efforts to …
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Donald Trump‘s inner circle doesn’t expect the Supreme Court to go along with his extreme arguments about executive power in the immunity case before the justices. But what the high court does now is almost beside the point: Trump already won. Three people with direct knowledge of the matter tell …
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Should where a woman lives determine whether she receives necessary medical care? That’s the heart of the question the Supreme Court will confront on Wednesday when it takes up a case concerning the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, a Reagan-era law that says that any hospital that accepts …
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