Supreme Court

End Of Protected Status Puts Somali Immigrants At Immediate Risk

August 29, 2026 Jamila Osman, Truthout. Educate! Deportations, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Somalia, Supreme Court, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)

After months of legal back-and-forth, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts lifted the administrative stay blocking the termination of Somalia’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation on August 14. The move puts thousands of Somalis in the U.S. at risk of immediate detention, deportation, loss of work authorization, and family separation. The initial termination was announced on January 13, 2026, by then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who gave just 60 days’ notice before the designation would expire.

How States Can Protect Residents From Harmful Pesticides

August 6, 2026 Emma Newton, Inequality.org. Resist! health, Monsanto, Pesticides, State Legislatures, Supreme Court

For decades, when a pesticide manufacturer’s product made someone sick, families had a path to justice: their day in court. But this summer, the Supreme Court closed that door for millions of Americans harmed by toxic pesticides. In a 7-2 ruling in Monsanto v. Durnell, the Court sided with chemical company Monsanto, ruling that state courts can no longer hold the manufacturer accountable for failing to include a warning label on its products if the federal EPA hasn’t required one — no matter what the science shows or what a jury decides.

Black Organizers Are Preparing For A New Era Of Voting Rights Battles

July 19, 2026 Brandon Tensley, Capital B News. Strategize! Black America, Racism, Supreme Court, The South, Voting Rights

The mobilization effort was swift once it became clear that Black Georgians stood to lose political representation. LaTosha Brown and other voting rights advocates sprang into action after Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on May 13 called a special session to redraw the state’s congressional and legislative maps in ways that could erode Black voters’ ability to shape election outcomes. “Ultimately, pain births new possibilities,” said Brown, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter. “What we’re experiencing right now are possibilities, and we have to shift from seeing ourselves just as citizens of this nation and start seeing ourselves as mothers of the new nation — we’re the architects.”

SCOTUS Ruling Could Be Bad News For Flock

July 11, 2026 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. Organize! Flock Cameras, Mass Surveillance, Police, Supreme Court

Civil rights attorneys say a recent Supreme Court ruling in a landmark digital privacy case could put “wind in the sails” of local organizers challenging police deployment of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). However, those organizers in cities large and small still face both a powerful industry and police departments determined to outfit their forces with the latest tech. It will take more than a single Supreme Court ruling to unravel the rapidly growing system of AI-powered mass surveillance. The Supreme Court ruled on June 29 that so-called “geofence” requests issued by police departments to Big Tech companies for data from cellphones located within a certain geographical boundary at a specific time are considered a “search” under the Fourth Amendment.

To Trump’s Chagrin, Supreme Court Narrowly Protects Voting By Mail

July 1, 2026 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. Educate! Elections, Supreme Court, Trump Administration, Voting Rights

With the 2026 midterm elections just four months away, the Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted if they are postmarked by election day and received within five days thereafter. The court’s 5-4 ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee leaves in place voting procedures in several states across the country. “Good news rarely comes out of this Supreme Court, but [this] ruling is a win for our democracy,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson told the Washington Post. Common Cause President Virginia Kase Solomón praised the decision because voters “shouldn’t lose their voice because of mail delays outside their control.”

Whistleblower Law Safe From US Supreme Court For Now

May 25, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Educate! Legal System, Supreme Court, Whistleblower Law, Whistleblowers

The United States Supreme Court declined to hear Eli Lilly’s appeal against the constitutionality of the False Claims Act, which it pursued in order to avoid accountability for Medicaid fraud. In 2022, a jury ordered the multinational pharmaceutical corporation to pay $61 million after whistleblower Ronald Streck alleged that the company had underpaid rebates that drug manufacturers must pay as part of Medicaid. Since damages were trebled and interest accrued, Eli Lilly was instructed to pay over $220 million.

States Are Pushing To Decriminalize Public Homelessness

May 23, 2026 Roshan Abraham, Next City. Strategize! Decriminalization, Homelessness, State Legislatures, Supreme Court

Nearly two years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson that jurisdictions can criminalize sleeping outside, even when there is no adequate shelter. The June 2024 ruling created ripple effects across the country, as state and local governments unleashed increased aggression in tearing down encampments and destroying people’s belongings. While many democratic elected officials tried to posture as opponents of the ruling, some gloated. California Gov. Gavin Newsom seemed to celebrate the ruling with a photo op in which he destroyed a homeless encampment.

Trump Demands End To Birthright Citizenship

May 22, 2026 Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. Educate! Birthright Citizenship, Constitution, Supreme Court, Trump admini

On Thursday, Trump said in a press conference that “it would be a disgrace” if the Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship. “Twenty to 25 percent of the people coming into our country will come in through birthright citizenship; they’ll become citizens through birthright citizenship,” he said, grossly exaggerating the amount of children born in the U.S. to undocumented people or temporary visitors. Trump then declared that birthright citizenship costs the U.S. inordinate sums of money. “They’re using the system, and it’s usually people that hate our country,” he said.

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.

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