Kelsey Reichmann
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SCOTUS and Politics reporter @CourthouseNews , probably reading something; opinions my own; contact: kreichmann @courthousenews .com
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Crowd at the Supreme Court is growing by the minute
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Justice Alito was not on the bench for opinions for the second day in a row
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Justice Samuel Alito was not on the bench for opinions this morning
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I’ve been creating possible scenarios for how the Dobbs decision would drop in my head for months and the draft leaking on a Monday night at 8 pm was not on my bingo card.
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In case anyone missed this gem from Alito in today’s oral arguments
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Biden out with a new statement on today’s ruling. He says SCOTUS upended precedent and defied science in limiting EPA regulation.
Limiting the government’s authority to regulate wetlands under the Clean Water Act, the Supreme Court ended a nearly two-decade-old dispute Thursday.
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As the U.S. Supreme Court increasingly takes up disputes that haven't yet made their rounds through the stations of judgment and appeal, experts call it symptomatic of a deeper problem.
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New: Biden says he stands with tribes as the celebrate this morning’s SCOTUS ruling. Noting the nation’s painful history on native adoptions, Biden said ICWA represents the promise of never again.
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Justice Kagan on the legitimacy of SCOTUS: “When people see them [the court] as extensions of the political process, when people see them as trying to impose personal preferences on a society, irrespective of the law, that's when there's a problem.”
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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign will make a pit stop at the Supreme Court this week as the former president tries to convince the justices that the Constitution does not prohibit insurrectionist presidents.
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NEW: Kagan — joined by Roberts, Breyer, and Sotomayor —with a new criticism of the shadow docket. She says the court is using the “emergency docket not for emergencies at all" and instead to make merits determinations without full briefing and argument.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court says Yeshiva University has to follow lower court order requiring them to recognize an LGBTQ club on campus.
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Kavanaugh brings up an amicus brief from a gun-rights group. He asks the Texas solicitor general if anyone who owns an AR-15 can be sued for $1M under the precedent SB 8 would create. Stone says yes.
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For those following, Justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson removed “respectfully” from their dissent in the court’s ruling on presidential immunity
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Justice Kagan says it would be a good thing for the court to adopt a code of conduct. She said it would help the justices with compliance and persuade people they hold themselves to standards. She was asked to name the holdout on the court but declined.
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BREAKING: SCOTUS denies former President Trump’s request to shield Jan. 6 records from Congress
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An interesting note on this case: Mississippi did not originally ask the court to overturn Roe in its brief submitted in March 2020. In July 2021, it did just that. What happened between these two dates? The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett.
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I’d like to report a crime
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Biden makes it official, he will be calling for SCOTUS reform in the coming months
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BREAKING: SCOTUS denies relief to healthcare workers seeking a religious exemption from COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito dissent
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NEW: After much speculation, Supreme Court marshal issues a statement saying she “spoke with each of the justices, several on multiple occasions” during her investigation. The justices did not sign sworn affidavits.
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One of my favorite journalists and the person who probably knows the most about this subject on today’s Daily. Definitely worth a listen.
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In a 2-1 vote, the D.C. Circuit ruled on Tuesday that it is constitutional for the military to court-martial retired servicemembers for post-retirement crimes.
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A theme running through the confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is that she’s soft on crime, accusations that lawyers say have more to do with conservative talking points than the nominee's own record.
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A hearing to discuss forcing all of the Supreme Court justices to adhere to ethical standards on Wednesday was diverted by partisan disagreements over criticism of the actions of one justice: Clarence Thomas.
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The women of DC are just so picky. We request men are honest and have bed frames which seems to be too much to ask.
To the single folks in DC, it would appear that many of you want to be in a relationship, but yet so many are struggling to find a partner. What are your thoughts on the matter?
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News: SCOTUS declines an emergency application to stop COVID vaccine mandates for health care workers
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NEWS: SCOTUS out with a statement addressing press reports about masking. They said Justice Sotomayor did not ask Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask. However, the reports didn’t say she did, the reports said Chief Justice Roberts asked the justices to wear masks.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Biden administration request to block lower court order restricting government communications with social media companies. The court has also agreed to hear the case later this term. Dissents from Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch
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NEW: SCOTUS denies request by Republican-led states to block the Biden Administration from calculating the cost of pollution
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SG Prelogar: "The court has never revoked a right that is so fundamental to so many Americans and so central to their ability to participate fully and equally in society. The court should not overrule the central component of women’s liberty."
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NEW: SCOTUS will allow the Jan. 6 committee to access the phone records of the Arizona Republican Party chair. Thomas and Alito publicly dissent.
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BREAKING: SCOTUS sides with abortion providers and allows challenge to SB 8 to move forward
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Kagan says people have a right to be suspicious of the court “when the court gets involved in things that it doesn't have to — especially if those things are very contested in a society — it just looks like it's spoiling for trouble."
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NEW: Biden administration appeals to SCOTUS to block a lower court ruling that would force them to deploy unvaccinated Navy seals calling the ruling an “extraordinary and unprecedented intrusion into core military affairs.”
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It’s all quiet on First Street as accusations swirl over spousal conflict of interest and secret speeches to partisan groups.
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BREAKING: SCOTUS takes up Biden vaccine mandate cases. Oral arguments are scheduled for Jan. 7.
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The Supreme Court will again allow the Biden administration to enforce regulations on ghost guns, agreeing on Friday to block a lower court pause on the rules.
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NEW: White House says Biden was in close contact with staffer who tested positive for COVID. The President tested negative today and will be tested again on Wednesday
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NEWS: SCOTUS has denied relief to Maine healthcare workers requesting an injunction on a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for religious reasons. Opinion from Barrett and Kavanaugh. Gorsuch, Thomas, and Alito provided a dissenting opinion.
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BREAKING: SCOTUS denies Republican requests to block use of new court-drawn congressional district maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania
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A Minnesota county violated the rights of a 94-year-old woman when it took her property that was worth over double the tax debt she owed, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
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Biden commissioned an entire report on potential reform ideas in 2022. There’s been no action since.
On a call w/the Congressional Progressive Caucus today,
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said he has been working w/experts on some major Supreme Court reform proposals to be announced soon. He added, “I want to make sure we have a closer working relationship…you’ve always been the ones who stepped up.”
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Kagan continues: “If a new judge come in … and all of a sudden everything is up for grabs, all of a sudden very fundamental principles of law are being overthrown or being replaced, then people have a right to say, you know what's going on there.”
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The latest challenge to COVID-19 vaccine mandates on SCOTUS’ shadow docket is denied relief from Justice Breyer
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BREAKING: Supreme Court pauses lower court rulings restricting abortion pill. Thomas and Alito dissent
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Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are joining forces to bring Supreme Court arguments into the 21st century.
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I won’t leave my apartment without saying bye to my cat so this morning he tried to hide from me so I couldn’t leave.
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New: SCOTUS released its Nov argument schedule which includes the challenge to laws preventing domestic abusers from possessing guns
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BREAKING: A jury found Steve Bannon GUILTY on two contempt of Congress charges for failing to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee
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BREAKING: SCOTUS denies Lindsey Graham’s appeal to block his testimony in a Georgia election probe
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Justice Clarence Thomas expressed concern on Monday that a chemical company that dumped toxins into the Ohio River faced an unfair judgment in a lawsuit from a cancer patient.
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Justice Thomas spent the last decade ignoring his duty to disclose that he made a six-figure property sale to Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, according to new reporting that compounds calls for the justice to face an ethics inquiry.
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Has anyone ever considered that economic markers may be outdated and many Americans feel this way because they can’t afford rent or groceries? The stock market and unemployment rates mean nothing to someone struggling with basic necessities
"Nearly three in five Americans wrongly believe the US is in an economic recession, and the majority blame the Biden administration, according to a Harris poll conducted exclusively for the Guardian"
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NEWS: Justice Barrett rejects application seeking to block President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan.
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Breaking: SCOTUS will hear an appeal from the Biden Administration on ending Trump’s remain-in-Mexico policy for asylum-seekers. Case will be heard in April
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NEWS: Alabama asks the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision that threw out its Republican-friendly congressional map. Lower court said the state’s map violated the Voting Rights Act.
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NEW: SCOTUS agreed to divided arguments for the 4 vaccine mandate cases next Friday
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SG Prelogar: "One in four American women have had an abortion and for those women, the rights secured by Roe and Casey have been critical in ensuring that they can control their bodies and control their lives."
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The court's liberal minority was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh to uphold protections in the Voting Rights Act.
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Justice Kagan: "These schools are overtly discriminatory and they’re proudly discriminatory. People won’t understand why in the world their taxpayer dollars are going to discriminatory schools."
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NEW: SCOTUS declines to intervene in a challenge to the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for service members. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would have granted the application.
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My mentions are a hellscape right now but I really appreciate everyone who was touched or inspired by my photo/video last night. All I’ve ever wanted to do was document history in action and I feel so privileged to be able to do that in this moment.
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Special counsel tells Supreme Court that Donald Trump is not above the rule of law
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The government said a special master review of classified documents recovered from Trump’s possession would be inappropriate since they are not the former president’s personal property.
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Breaking: Supreme Court agrees to review presidential immunity petition on expedited schedule and instructs Trump to file brief before 4pm on Dec. 20
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Breaking: Supreme Court asked to consider Trump’s presidential immunity claim
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Experts warn that the decision to halt sales of an FDA-approved drug based on shaky legal ground will have broad implications.
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The justices blocked a lower court ruling the government claimed intruded into core military affairs.
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“It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, but we've made it.” - Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Sotomayor on the claim that abortion is not in the constitution: "There is not anything in the constitution that says that the court, the Supreme Court, is the last word on what the constitution means."
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NEW: A divided SCOTUS blocks a controversial social media censorship law from Texas that would prevent companies like Facebook and Twitter from banning users
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Justice Sotomayor "will this institution survive the stench that this creates the public perception that the constitution and its reading are just political acts."
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BREAKING: SCOTUS denied an emergency application from Trump seeking to block Congress from accessing his tax returns. No noted dissents.
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Some ~personal~ news this morning, I’ll be joining
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For the liberal justices, the 6-3 ruling on party lines undermines the entire purpose of anti-discrimination protections.
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Justice Sotomayor: "You admit that the reason why this school is important for these parents is because they don’t teach just secular subjects that they teach all subjects through the lens of their religion." She then goes on to say their science programs would be limited by this
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NEWS: SCOTUS blocks lower court order forcing Yeshiva University to recognize an LGBT club on campus
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The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to shield former President Donald Trump’s tax returns from a congressional subpoena.
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SCOTUS agrees to allow Biden admin to fight misinformation on social media. Alito called the ruling disturbing, characterizing it as green lighting a federal coordinated campaign against disfavored views.
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Full story here:
BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Biden administration request to block lower court order restricting government communications with social media companies. The court has also agreed to hear the case later this term. Dissents from Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch
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Jackson: “We have come a long way toward perfecting our union. In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States.”
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BREAKING: Supreme Court shoots down Trump request to keep Jan. 6 records secret
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Yes, my catholic school was indeed the one where the nuns embezzled $500,000 of parish funds and then fired a teacher for having breast cancer. Lovely institution.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court just received a challenge to Biden’s student loan plan on the shadow docket. The application claims the plan violates the major questions doctrine.
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NEW: SCOTUS legal counsel responds to ethics questions raised by two members of Congress following allegations in the New York Times.
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Chief Justice Roberts with a warning on the court's legitimacy: “The nature of the federal right infringed does not matter; it is the role of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system that is at stake."
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News: SCOTUS rules in favor of COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the first statewide challenge to come across its docket.
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The court’s transcript does not reflect Roberts nearly saying the tax case before them was dismissed instead of submitted at the end of today’s arguments. The slip up did not go unnoticed in the courtroom however.
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The Supreme Court Monday declined two emergency applications from Republicans in North Carolina and Pennsylvania who are attempting to thwart court-mandated congressional maps.
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Big day at SCOTUS as the justices hear a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act. The case could have big implications for tribal sovereignty.
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NEWS: The Supreme Court Tuesday dealt a blow to a nurse seeking to skirt a New Mexico Covid-19 vaccine mandate after doing her own research on the mRNA vaccines.
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Justice Clarence Thomas had a $267,230 loan forgiven by his wealthy health executive friend, according to a new report by the Senate Finance Committee released Wednesday.
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Legal experts weighed in on the blockbuster report and what it says about the high court's accountability standards.
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News: Thomas took 3 more unreported trips on Harlan Crow’s private plane
BREAKING:
@JudiciaryDems
reveal Justice Clarence Thomas took three trips on Harlan Crow's private plane between 2017-2021 that have gone unreported on SCOTUS financial disclosure documents, even after Thomas updated his 2019 disclosure to reflect other trips bankrolled by Crow.
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