#progressive-justices

#progressive-justices

U.S. District Judge Brendan A. Hurson denied the administration's request to stay a preliminary injunction that bars federal officials from conditioning or terminating funding for health care providers based on their provision of gender-affirming care to patients under 19.

A group of 12 Republicans in the South Carolina House of Representatives introduced H-5501, a concurrent resolution that calls on the state to 'reject the Supreme Court of the United States' Obergefell decision and to call on the Supreme Court to reverse Obergefell and restore the natural law definition of marriage.'

"The idea that she's not capable of doing her judicial duties is nonsense," said her attorney John Vecchione, senior litigation counsel at the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance.

Trump wins 69% of cases before Trump-appointed district judges. Now compare that to: 21% win rate before non-Trump Republican appointees and 38.6% win rate before Democratic appointees. Earlier Republican-appointed judges rule against Trump at a rate approaching four out of five cases. That means Trump's 69% success rate before his own appointees isn't some partisan alignment, but rather a notable statistical anomaly.

Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices expressed wariness with what Justice Samuel Alito described as a "hurried" attempt from the Trump administration to oust Lisa Cook from her position as a Federal Reserve board governor - and then to rush her case to the high court when lower courts allowed her to keep her post. Several members of the Republican-appointed majority also expressed sharp disagreement with the Trump administration's claim that judges lack the authority to review a president's power to fire

Artificial intelligence, meet the U.S. Supreme Court. It's an institution steeped in tradition and resistant to any quick changes in the way it does things. But like it or not, the justices are about to see artificially created versions of themselves, essentially avatars, speaking words that they actually did speak in court but that were not heard contemporaneously by anyone except the people in the courtroom.