Supreme Court

Did Scotus Just Do Us A Favor By Elucidating The Lies Of ‘America?’

May 8, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Black Liberation, Elections, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Voting Rights Act

While writing this piece, I could already hear the reactionaries - many of them Black and subscribers to the Black MISleadership, Petty Bourgeois Class newsletter, many still refusing to emancipate themselves from the Democrat Party plantation and many who act as willing vanguards and public advocates for it - castigating a position that questions the larger futility of Black people voting in the United States as it pertains to the larger question of our collective liberation from the domestic colonialism/imperialism imposed on us by the grander dictatorship and tyranny of racial capitalism.

The US Supreme Court, Race And The Right To Vote

May 2, 2026 Marjorie Cohn, Consortium News. Educate! Supreme Court, Systemic Racism, Voter Rights, Voting Rights Act

In perhaps its most insidious decision in nearly a century, the U.S. Supreme Court disemboweled Section 2 of the landmark Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, the “crown jewel” of the U.S. civil rights movement. The VRA ended Jim Crow-era election procedures that precluded Black people from voting in the South through intimidation, literacy tests and poll taxes. It was part of a system of post-Civil War legalized racial segregation meant to restore white supremacy after the end of slavery and the federal, military occupation of the South.

Supreme Court Overturns Colorado Conversion Therapy Ban

April 6, 2026 Cassandra Swart, People's World. Educate! Conversion Therapy, health, Supreme Court, Transgender Rights

Washington, DC—In a shocking setback for LGBTQ+ rights, on Tuesday, March 31, the Supreme Court overturned Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy, calling it unconstitutional. The state law was aimed at blocking the practice, which seeks to suppress the identity and sexuality of queer youth. Extensive documented evidence from the American Medical Association has found that conversion therapy carried out on transgender minors is inherently harmful and leads to increased rates of suicide and psychological distress. But the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado’s medical malpractice law violated the freedom of speech of Kaley Chiles, a licensed conversion therapist.

Supreme Court Will Hear Exxon’s Effort To Crush Climate Lawsuits

March 7, 2026 Emily Sanders, DeSmog. Educate! Energy, Oil and Gas Industry, Politics and Policy, Supreme Court

For the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted oil companies’ request to weigh in on whether climate accountability lawsuits are preempted by federal law — setting the stage for a battle that could determine if dozens of similar cases are allowed to move toward trial. The decision means the court will hear arguments from ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to overturn an earlier ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, which decided that a case brought by Boulder, Colorado, could move ahead in state court. You can read more about the companies’ petition in ExxonKnews and DeSmog’s previous coverage.

Trump: ‘I Can Destroy Countries’

February 21, 2026 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Constitutional Crisis, Donald Trump, Supreme Court, Tariffs

Reacting to a U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling his tariffs policy unconstitutional, U.S. President Donald Trump launched into an unhinged rant on Friday confirming that he considers himself above the law as any tinpot authoritarian leader would. The court ruled 6-3 that the U.S. Constitution makes clear that only Congress can levy tariffs, which are really taxes, on the U.S. population. Thus Trump’s extensive tariffs, imposed since January 2025, are illegal and American consumers and companies are due a refund of around $200 billion, the court said.

Supreme Court Is Going To New Lengths To Hide Its Inner Workings

February 7, 2026 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. Educate! Accountability, Supreme Court, Transparency, US Supreme Court

Two weeks after the November 2024 election of Donald Trump, the Supreme Court instituted a new policy to hide its actions from public scrutiny, according to a recent report in The New York Times. Chief Justice John Roberts told the court’s employees to sign a nondisclosure agreement pledging to keep the court’s internal workings secret. Although employees of the court have long been compelled to remain silent about what happens behind the scenes, the new nondisclosure agreement requirement is stiffer than prior agreements employees had signed.

Exxon’s Next Supreme Court Play

December 8, 2025 Emily Sanders, DeSmog. Educate! climate crisis, Exxon, Fossil Fuels, Supreme Court

Facing a growing number of lawsuits that could hold them liable for billions of dollars in climate damages, oil companies for the fifth time in three years are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the cases before they can reach trial. This time, ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy want the justices to overturn a decision of the Colorado Supreme Court, which ruled that a lawsuit brought against the two companies by the city and county of Boulder could move forward earlier this year. The Colorado Supreme Court found that the state law claims against the companies were not preempted by federal law. The potential stakes of the case were brought into sharp focus in 2021, when the Marshall Fire — the most destructive wildfire in Colorado state history — killed two people, burned down more than a thousand homes in Boulder County, and caused at least $2 billion in damages.

Decision On Birthright Citizenship Depends On Interpretation Of One Phrase

December 6, 2025 Morgan Marietta, Scheer Post. Educate! Birthright Citizenship, Constitution, Immigrants, Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2025, agreed to review the long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship. It will likely hand down a ruling next summer. In January 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order removing the recognition of citizenship for the U.S.-born children of both immigrants here illegally and visitors here only temporarily. The new rule is not retroactive. This change in long-standing U.S. policy sparked a wave of litigation culminating in Trump v. Washington, an appeal by Trump to remove the injunction put in place by federal courts.

Supreme Court Asks Why It Shouldn’t Gut The Voting Rights Act

August 30, 2025 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. Educate! Black America, Gerrymandering, Supreme Court, Voting Rights

In what may prove to be the most consequential redistricting case to come before the Supreme Court, Louisiana is urging the court to gut the main provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) and ban any consideration of race in redistricting. Louisiana filed its brief after the high court on August 1 asked the parties whether compliance with Section 2 of the (VRA) violates the Constitution’s 14th or 15th Amendments. By framing that question, the court may be signaling its intention to eviscerate the VRA. Louisiana v. Callais reached the Supreme Court after a coalition of civil rights organizations and Black voters sought to reinstate a map that the state legislature had adopted in 2024.

Historic Genocide Case Heard In Barbados Supreme Court

July 9, 2025 Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration, Black Agenda Report. Resist! Barbados, Gaza, Genocide, International Law, Israel, Supreme Court

Bridgetown, Barbados-In a landmark moment for regional justice and international law, the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration (CMPI) has filed a powerful legal challenge before the Supreme Court of Barbados, calling for urgent national action in response to Israel’s ongoing atrocities in Gaza. The case urges the Barbados government to align its foreign policy with its obligations under international humanitarian law, amid overwhelming global evidence of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people. The case, brought by CMPI Secretary David McDonald Denny, is being led by veteran human rights attorney and Secretary of the Caribbean Against Apartheid in Palestine (CAAP) Mr Lalu Hanuman.

Seven Supreme Court Cases That Black Americans Should Track This Summer

June 11, 2025 Jonathan Forney, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Birthright Citizenship, Black America, Deportations, Education, Health Care, Immigration, LGBTQ Rights, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Transgender Rights, US Supreme Court, Voting Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

From voting rights to health care to workplace equality, the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on a number of issues this summer that could have major implications for Black Americans. “In America, for Black people, we’ve had a long season where our rights were generally respected,” said Andrea Young, executive director of the ACLU, who has been closely following the Trump administration’s legal moves. “We have Black elected officials … Black leaders in corporate America, we have extreme poverty, but we also have thriving middle class communities. We have many areas where we have lots of highly educated black people. All of those things rest on a legal framework that allows those rights to be protected.”

Abrego Garcia’s Wrongful Deportation Case More About Individual Rights Than Trump’s Foreign Policy

May 8, 2025 Chimene Keitner, Scheer Post. Educate! El Salvador, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Mass Deportation, Supreme Court, Trump Administration, Venezuela

Trump administration officials have repeatedly claimed that judges who order the administration to take action to bring deported Venezuelans back from the El Salvador prison where the U.S. sent them are meddling in the conduct of foreign policy. “The foreign policy of the United States is conducted by President Donald J. Trump − not by a court − and no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on April 14. His comments refer to cases including that of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran man who was deported to El Salvador on March 15, 2025, without any due process.

US Intends To Proceed With Arizona Copper Mine, Justices Told

April 24, 2025 Crystal Owens, Law 360. Educate! Arizona, Copper Mine, Indigenous Sovereignty, Oak Flat, Sacred sites, Supreme Court

The U.S. government says there has been no doubt that it intends to proceed with a land exchange in Arizona for a planned multibillion-dollar copper mine, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that its recent notice of publication of a final environmental impact statement for the project does not constitute urgent review. There is nothing about the 60-day notice, which was filed in an Arizona federal court and published in the Federal Register on April 17, that supports claims by the Apache Stronghold that there may have been some uncertainty about the federal government's intent to move forward with the land transfer, the government told the high court in a Monday letter.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Denies Mumia Abu Jamal’s Appeal

April 24, 2025 Betsey Piette, Workers World. Educate! Legal System, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Pennsylvania, Political Prisoner, Supreme Court

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - On March 26, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal permission to appeal a September 2024 Pennsylvania Superior Court denial of his latest petition to reverse his 1982 conviction. The Supreme Court ruling ends Mumia’s state court challenge at this time. Mumia’s sixth petition was based on credible new evidence of prosecutorial misconduct — including Brady violations based on incentives given to the state’s key witnesses Cynthia White and Robert Chobert to give false testimony. The new evidence, found buried in storage boxes in a remote area of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office and turned over to Mumia’s lawyers in December 2021 also included evidence of racial bias in jury selection, a Batson violation.

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