Supreme Court

Join A ‘People’s Filibuster’ Against Neil Gorsuch

April 1, 2017 Staff, www.thenation.com Resist! Protests, Supreme Court

By Staff of The Nation - At his confirmation hearing last week, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch avoided giving a straight answer on his positions for many key issues likely to come before the court. As The Nation’s Ari Berman pointed out, this strategy echoed that of Chief Justice John Roberts who once stressed that his role as a judge was that of an “umpire” unencumbered by politics, but who later “aggressively pushed the Court to the right” on issues ranging from school integration to voting rights to corporate spending on elections. In fact, Gorsuch is likely to hold even more damaging beliefs than Roberts; a recent review of his opinions found them to be more conservative than all current Supreme Court justices except Justice Clarence Thomas.

Meet Neil Gorsuch, The New Antonin Scalia

February 1, 2017 Bill Blum, www.truthdig.com Educate! Donald Trump, Supreme Court, Trump Administration

By Bill Blum for Truth Dig - Just when we might have thought we’d seen Donald Trump at his zaniest (say, in the first presidential debate) and most dangerous (say, in his executive order on immigration last week), he outdid himself with the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, 49, a judge from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (headquartered in Denver), to fill the late Antonin Scalia’s empty chair on the Supreme Court. The zany part is the way our narcissist in chief introduced Gorsuch as his pick. The dangerous part is that Gorsuch is exactly the sort of Scalia-in-waiting we would expect from an extremist right-wing administration that aims to roll back constitutional rights...

Trump’s SCOTUS Pick Won’t Go Down Without A Fight

February 1, 2017 Chris Tognotti, www.bustle.com Educate! Donald Trump, Supreme Court, Trump Administration

By Chris Tognotti for Bustle - On Tuesday, Jan. 31, all of America got its first look at the first Supreme Court nomination of the Trump era. And in the end, it was one of the names bandied about for weeks ― the pick was Neil Gorsuch, who was reportedly in Washington, D.C. the evening of the announcement to help gin up suspense. And with the progressive base of the Democratic Party animated and fervent about a strong resistance being put up to President Trump's agenda, you might be wondering: can the Democrats block Gorsuch's nomination, or is it already a lost cause? The simple answer is yes, they could theoretically block him, but there are procedural moves, to say nothing of routine political pressures, that the GOP can use to ultimately push him through regardless of the opposition.

Supreme Court Argument In Case On Muslim Round-Ups

January 17, 2017 Staff, www.ccrjustice.org Resist! Abuse, Muslims, Supreme Court

By Staff of Center for Constitutional Rights - In the shadow of the Trump inauguration this Friday, CCR will be before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a case about executive abuses of power that is frighteningly relevant at the dawn of the Trump era. Ziglar v. Abassi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft) seeks to hold high-level Bush administration officials, including John Ashcroft, accountable for their role in the round up, detention, and abuse of Muslim non-citizens after 9/11. After 9/11, more than 700 men were rounded up and imprisoned for months, dozens in brutal conditions, based on nothing more than their race or religion. They came to the attention of the FBI through citizen reports about such things as "Arabs" working long hours or "Middle Eastern" men renting post office boxes.

Victory! Supreme Court Denies Stay In N. Carolina Voting Rights Case

September 1, 2016 Staff, www.acluofnorthcarolina.org Resist! North Carolina, Supreme Court, Voting

By Staff of ACLU - WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today denied North Carolina’s request to stay a federal appeals court ruling that struck down the state’s restrictive voting law. The American Civil Liberties Union and Southern Coalition for Social Justice challenged the law, charging it discriminates against African-American votersand unduly burdens the right to vote, in violation of the U.S Constitution’s 14th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act.

Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules Against Pipeline Tax

August 18, 2016 Larry Chretien and Eugenia Gibbons, www.blog.massenergy.org Resist! Massachusetts, Pipelines, Supreme Court, Taxes

By Larry Chretien and Eugenia Gibbons for Mass Energy Consumers Alliance - On May 17, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued a unanimous opinion confirming that the landmark 2008 climate protection law, the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA), requires the state to take enforceable action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on an annual basis in order to achieve the law’s mandate. Basically, they said “limits are limits”, the targets are binding, more needs to be done to achieve the emission target for 2020, and the law is unambiguous.

Supreme Court Nailing The Coffin On Restrictive Abortion Laws

June 29, 2016 Jason Stein, www.jsonline.com Resist! Abortion, Supreme Court

By Jason Stein for the Journal Sentinel - Handing down its second major abortion action in as many days, the U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to rescue a Wisconsin law restricting abortion clinics and doctors in the state, leaving in place lower court rulings that had struck it down. The unsigned order ends a three-year legal fight and was accompanied Tuesday by another rejection of an appeal by Mississippi that sought to reinstate a similar law requiring abortion doctors to be able to admit patients to nearby hospitals.

Following Supreme Court Split, Communities Keep Fighting

June 24, 2016 Juan Gastelum, www.nilc.org Resist! Immigration, Supreme Court

By Juan Gastelum for NILC - WASHINGTON — Having reached an impasse, the U.S. Supreme Court has voted 4-4 in one of the most consequential immigration cases in recent history, United States v. Texas. The High Court’s failure to fall one way or another in the case leaves in place a lower court decision that blocks the Obama administration’s deferred action immigration initiatives known as DAPA and the expansion of DACA from being implemented.

The Drug Exception To The Bill Of Rights Continues

June 22, 2016 Mark Joseph Stern, www.slate.com Educate! Fourth Amendment, Freedom, Police, Supreme Court

By Mark Joseph Stern for The Slate - The Supreme Court issued an extraordinarily disappointing 5–3 decision on Monday in Utah v. Strieff, a Fourth Amendment case about police searches. Yet the terrible ruling came with a bright spot: In a powerful and groundbreaking dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor lambasted the majority for its heartless and illogical rejection of Fourth Amendment freedoms, invoking the Justice Department’s Ferguson report, echoing Black Lives Matter, and even citing Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Supreme Court Makes Slip-Up In Death Penalty Case

June 7, 2016 Cristian Farias, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Death Penalty, Supreme Court

By Cristian Farias for The Huffington Post - Evincing that things may be in a bit of disarray since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court on Monday made a misstep when agreeing to hear the case of a prisoner seeking to challenge his death sentence. The case was one of two death penalty appeals the court added to its docket for its next term, which begins in October.

Colorado Court Strikes Down Local Fracking Restrictions

May 4, 2016 Zahra Hirji, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Colorado, Fracking, Supreme Court

By Zahra Hirji for Inside Climate News - The Colorado Supreme Court struck down local fracking restrictions in two cities—Longmont, which had passed a ban, and Fort Collins, which had issued a five-year moratorium—issuing a one-two punch to the state's anti-fracking movement. Regulators at the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, not local communities, have the exclusive authority to regulate oil and gas activity in Colorado, the Supreme Court judges ruled Monday.

Supreme Court Delivers Victory For Supporters Of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Law

May 3, 2016 For Cristian Farias, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Minimum Wage, Seattle, Supreme Court

For Cristian Farias for The Huffington Post - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a sweeping constitutional challenge to Seattle’s minimum wage law, in what could have been a test case for future legal attacks on similar measures across the country. In a one-line order, the justices declined to hear a case by the International Franchise Association and a group of Seattle franchisees, which had said in court papers that the city’s gradual wage increase to $15 discriminates against them in a way that violates the Constitution’s commerce clause.

Venezuela’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Amnesty Law

April 14, 2016 Lucas Koerner, www.venezuelanalysis.com Resist! Amnesty, Supreme Court, Venezuela

By Lucas Koerner for Venezuela Analysis - Caracas, April 12, 2016 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) unanimously ruled on Monday that a controversial amnesty law passed by the country's opposition-controlled parliament is unconstitutional. The law that Venezuela's National Assembly approved on March 29 would have exonerated dozens of persons convicted of crimes over the last seventeen years, including those responsible for 2014's violent anti-government protests as well as the protagonists of the thwarted 2002 coup against then president Hugo Chávez.

Obama Supreme Court Nomination: A Missed Opportunity

April 8, 2016 Bill Mosley, www.dsadc.org Resist! Barack Obama, Supreme Court

By Bill Mosley for President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and a former federal prosecutor, to the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Antonin Scalia was, as the pundits have noted, intended to present the Senate with a non-threatening, noncontroversial candidate to whom it would be hard to object. In the thinking of the president and his advisors, an anodyne figure such as Garland, someone without ideological baggage or a crusader image, would deprive Senate Republicans...

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