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Two weeks before President Joe Biden officially proposed term limits for Supreme Court justices, former President Donald Trump preemptively condemned the idea. "The Radical Left Democrats are desperately trying to 'Play the Ref' by calling for an illegal and unConstitutional attack on our SACRED United States Supreme Court," Trump wrote on Truth Social, emphasizing the importance of "Fair and Independent Courts." That critique glossed over the fact that Supreme Court term limits have attracted support from legal scholars on the right as well as the left. It was also hard to take seriously beca...
Reason
Less than 48 hours after surviving an assassination attempt, former President Donald Trump received a bit of good news—which could have positive downstream effects for the rest of us, as well. In 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith brought a 42-count indictment over Trump's "willful retention" of classified documents he was no longer allowed to possess after leaving office. Trump's attorneys have argued, among other things, that Smith was improperly appointed to his position. On Monday, Judge Aileen Cannon of the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida agreed and dismissed the case. U.S. Attorne...
Reason
After the U.S. Supreme Court curtailed the powers of federal agencies in two cases last week, progressive critics predictably complained that the decisions favored "big business," "corporate interests," and "the wealthy and powerful." That gloss overlooked the reality that people with little wealth or power frequently are forced to contend with overweening bureaucrats who invent their own authority and play by their own rules. In the more consequential case, the Court repudiated the Chevron doctrine, which required that judges defer to a federal agency's "permissible" interpretation of an "amb...
Reason
Two years ago, New York Times columnist David French complains, the Supreme Court "created a jurisprudential mess that scrambled American gun laws" by saying they must be "consistent with this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation." Last week, French suggests, the Court drew back from the precipice when it upheld a federal law that disarms people who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders. That take is somewhat misleading, since all eight justices who voted to uphold that law plausibly claimed to be following the approach that the Court prescribed in the 2022 case Ne...
Reason
Last Friday, activist Shannon Watts took to social media to respond to the Supreme Court's 8–1 ruling in U.S. v. Rahimi, in which the justices ruled it is legal for the government to temporarily disarm someone whom a court has found poses a safety threat to others. "The Rahimi case should never have been taken up by SCOTUS," she said in a now-deleted post on X, formerly Twitter. "To even question whether domestic abusers should have access to guns shows just how extreme this court has become." It was an odd thing to say, for a few reasons. For one, the decision, by pretty much all accounts, wa...
Reason
Washington (AFP) - In a stately building across from the US Capitol, the Supreme Court sits as the final arbiter on fundamental American legal matters, which can include the death penalty, minority rights, racism and electoral controversies. Created under Article III of the Constitution, the court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices -- all of whom are appointed for life. President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman in history to serve on the court. She still faces confirmation hearings in the Senate. With one liberal justice rep...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - The US Senate confirmed Joe Biden's first two judicial nominees onto federal benches Tuesday, helping the president fulfill his priority to bring greater diversity to the nation's courts. Julien Neals, who is African American, was confirmed on a 66-33 vote as the newest judge for the US District of New Jersey. Hours later a second Biden pick, Regina Rodriguez, was also confirmed on a bipartisan vote, 72-28, to serve on the US District Court in Colorado. "They are both highly qualified, and they represent the diversity that is one of the ultimate strengths of our nation," Bid...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - In a cavernous building across from the US Capitol, the Supreme Court sits as the final arbiter on fundamental American legal matters, which can include minority and LGBTQ rights, racism, the death penalty and electoral controversies.Created under Article III of the Constitution, the court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices -- all of whom are appointed for life.The death on Friday of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, anchor of the court's liberal faction, could give President Donald Trump a chance to lock in a conservative majority for decades to come.Though Democra...
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