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2 hours agoThe Shadow Docket Memos Are Damning. So Naturally, The Right Is Talking About The Leak. - Above the Law
Leaked memos reveal how Chief Justice Roberts led the Supreme Court to create the shadow docket, highlighting internal dysfunction and predetermined outcomes.
Social justice
fromSlate Magazine
5 days agoThe Supreme Court Has a Chance to Revolutionize Its Approach to the Law
Supreme Court rulings on Reconstruction Amendments will significantly impact voting rights and protections for marginalized groups, particularly Black Americans and transgender individuals.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
1 year agoGay Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may have helped create a constitutional crisis - LGBTQ Nation
Elon Musk's team gained unauthorized access to the federal payment system, threatening USAID operations and raising concerns about national security and economic stability.
Higher education
fromAbove the Law
5 days agoConservative Judges Hiring Clerks Before 1L Exams Because Ideology Is The Only Grade That Matters - Above the Law
Two distinct federal clerkship paths at Harvard Law prioritize academic success or ideological commitment, reflecting a growing divide in hiring practices among judges.
Social justice
fromSlate Magazine
3 days agoClarence Thomas Just Gave a Speech Blaming Progressivism for Hitler. It Was Mostly Just Sad.
Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a speech attacking progressivism, linking it to historical atrocities and expressing grievances about criticism faced by principled individuals.
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1 month agoMixing The Mixed Constitution - emptywheel
Burke's was a broadside that not only excoriated the social upheavals effected by the French revolutionaries and (by extension) commended by Marx, but the continual economic and social instability prized by modern liberal economic philosophy and practice. Against a new class of elites-mainly, an alliance between ideological progressive theorists and a rising financial oligarchy-Burke urged protection of the stability, tradition, and social continuities vital for the flourishing of ordinary people.
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fromSlate Magazine
1 month agoThe Supreme Court Just Heeded One of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Sharpest Dissents
The Supreme Court unanimously refused to immediately revoke Temporary Protected Status for over 350,000 immigrants from Haiti and Syria, instead allowing full judicial review while maintaining their legal protections.
fromBig Think
1 month agoHow the U.S. Constitution protects liberty from the powerful's dark impulses
The real Führer is always a judge. Out of Führerdom flows judgeship. One who wants to separate the two from each other or puts them in opposition to each other would have the judge be either the leader of the opposition or the tool of the opposition and is trying to unhinge the state with the help of the judiciary.
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fromAbove the Law
1 month agoMorning Docket: 03.18.26 - Above the Law
Chief Justice Roberts calls for ending personal attacks on judges, while questions arise about presidential official acts; meanwhile, legal developments span judicial conduct, cryptocurrency regulation, Section 230 reform, and national security concerns.
Law
fromABA Journal
1 month agoNearly 200 former judges denounce claim that courts are ignoring Supreme Court orders
Over 175 former federal and state judges denounce Trump administration claims that district courts are ignoring Supreme Court orders, calling such attacks an extraordinary assault on the judiciary.
Social justice
fromAbove the Law
1 month agoThis Harvard Law School Grad Has The Progressive Answer To FedSoc - Above the Law
Lawyers can drive systemic change through community organizing and alternative pathways that challenge corporate power and legal inequities rather than relying solely on institutional approaches.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month agoThe Rule Of Law Joins America's Dead Pets On The Rainbow Bridge - Above the Law
Trump attorney John Lauro claimed the DOJ improved under Attorney General Pam Bondi, contradicting legal observers who view current conditions as a constitutional crisis threatening prosecutorial independence.
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1 month agoJudge Newman Asks the Supreme Court to Intervene: Framing Judicial Independence as a Constitutional Imperative
Judge Pauline Newman, barred from judicial duties since 2023 without impeachment or disability finding, petitioned the Supreme Court to challenge the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act's bar on reviewing judicial council orders.
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fromAbove the Law
2 months agoEven A Trump Judge Knows We're In The Middle Of A Constitutional Crisis - Above the Law
ICE's operations at the Whipple Federal Building violate detainees' constitutional rights through opaque transfers, inadequate legal notice, and dismissive government evidence.
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2 months agoThousands Of Law Students Demand Congress Allow The Constitution To Apply To ICE - Above the Law
A student-led coalition has gathered more than 2,600 signatures from law students, legal academics, and law student organizations across 109 law schools calling on Congress to pass the Federal Officer Accountability Act. As the Department of Homeland Security disappears suspected migrants without due process, arbitrarily harasses citizens, and point blank kills innocent people on camera, a shocked public has learned what lawyers have talked about for years: the government has stacked the immunity deck to functionally shield law enforcement from accountability.
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fromEmptywheel
2 months agoThe Unstated Constitutional Problems With Obama "Using the 14th"
The Founders, in creating and nurturing our system of governance by and through the Constitution provided separate and distinct branches of government, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial and, further, provided for intentional, established and delineated checks and balances so that power was balanced and not able to be usurped by any one branch tyrannically against the interest of the citizenry.
fromABA Journal
2 months agoChemerinsky: The Fourth Amendment comes back to the Supreme Court
From 2021 until 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court did not decide one case involving traditional Fourth Amendment issues-such as what is a search, when is a warrant required and whether the exclusionary rule applies. I taught Criminal Procedure - Investigations in the fall semester and struggled to explain to my students why the justices seemingly had lost interest in the Fourth Amendment. But this term, there are two Fourth Amendment cases, one already decided and one to be argued this spring.
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