Supreme Court

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/24/2020
  

  In Blackbeard Pirate Ship Case, Supreme Court Scuttles Copyright Claims

  Ruling unanimously, the U.S. Supreme Court said that a videographer who spent two decades documenting the salvaging of Blackbeard's ship cannot sue the state of North Carolina in federal court for using his videos without his permission.

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• SOURCE: WFAE
  3/27/2020
  

  Darius Swann Changed Charlotte's School System, Local Historian Remembers

  Local historian Pamela Grundy discusses the Rev. Dr. Darius Swann who was the lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Swann v. Charlotte - Mecklenburg Board of Education. He died on March 8, at the age of 95.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  February 26, 2020
  

  Joe Biden is making a Supreme Court promise. Ronald Reagan did, too.

  Though some critics may dismiss it as pandering, a promise like this has a proven track record. Ronald Reagan vowed to put a woman on the Supreme Court; it was a key part of his campaign for president in 1980.

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• 1/19/20
  

  The Supreme Court Historical Society: An interview with the President

  by Sam Mastrianni

  An interview with the President of The Supreme Court Historical Society. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/8/19
  

  9 Landmark Supreme Court Cases That Shaped LGBTQ Rights in America

  Regardless of how the justices rule in the cases, the court’s decisions would not be the first time that the Supreme Court made major decisions impacting LGBTQ people’s civil rights in the United States. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  10/4/19
  

  Ginsburg predicts historians will call this political era an 'aberration'

  Ginsburg offered her thoughts Thursday on how historians will view this period of American history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  October 8, 2019
  

  The Supreme Court must extend the Civil Rights Act’s protections to LGBTQ employees

  by Katherine Turk

  It shouldn’t be legal to fire somebody for their sexual orientation or gender identity.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/3/19
  

  Inside the Supreme Court ruling that made Nixon turn over his Watergate tapes

  The historic judgment that U.S. presidents do not hold unchecked power to declare executive privilege set a precedent that courts would consider in evaluating whether President Trump could shield his own communications from external scrutiny amid an impeachment inquiry.

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• SOURCE: The National Archives
  9/25/19
  

  Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero Interviews Justice Gorsuch about the Constitution

  by James Worsham

  Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero spoke with Gorsuch in a conversation about his new book.  

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• 9/29/19
  

  How Ideologues and Partisans Seized the Court: From Nixon to Trump

  by Thom Hartmann

  When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. —Richard M. Nixon 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  9/26/19
  

  The fight to end Roe v. Wade enters its endgame next week. Here's the History Behind It.

  by Ian Millhiser

  The Supreme Court could dismantle the constitutional right to an abortion, and all it has to do is sit on its hands.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/16/19
  

  Samuel Chase: The one Supreme Court justice who has ever been impeached

  The Senate Historical Office offers insight into the only Supreme Court Justice impeachment in U.S. History. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  August 6, 2019
  

  The Supreme Court’s illiberal legacy

  by Shahrukh Khan

  Why liberals shouldn’t put too much faith in the nation’s highest court.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/28/2019
  

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reflects on Her Place in History

  Does Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 86-year-old feminist icon, have any regrets about her professional life? Hardly.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/17/19
  

  Trump's Supreme Court Challenge Has a Historical Precedent

  by Bethany Berger

  As Trump agrees reluctantly to respect the court—at least in the case of the census—he follows, in part, that long-ago legal victory of the Cherokee Nation.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/24/19
  

  The Supreme Court decision that kept suburban schools segregated

  by Jon Hale

  The Milliken v. Bradley decision sanctioned a form of segregation that has allowed suburbs to escape being included in court-ordered desegregation and busing plans with nearby cities.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  7/1/19
  

  The Supreme Court Is in Danger of Again Becoming ‘the Grave of Liberty’

  by Eric Foner

  Supreme Court decisions have practical consequences, which justices too often blithely ignore.

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• 7/3/19
  

  Gerrymandering presented a ‘political question doctrine’ deemed outside Supreme Court jurisdiction

  by Lackland H. Bloom, Jr.

  “After five decades of searching for a standard, Chief Justice Roberts was finally able to assemble a majority that concluded ‘enough is enough.’ There is no judicially manageable standard here. This is a non-justiciable political question.”

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• 6/30/19
  

  Adding a Citizenship Question to the Census Will Return It to Its Racist Origins

  by Derek Litvak

  The Trump administration is now attempting to do exactly what slaveholders did in the eighteenth-century: use the Constitution to inflate the political power of a vocal minority. 

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• SOURCE: Richard Nixon Foundation
  6/18/19
  

  The 50th Anniversary of Warren Burger's Appointment as Chief Supreme Court Justice

  by Jeffrey B. Morris

  The Burger Court was, on the whole, a pragmatic, flexible court, no more likely that its predecessor to be overly restrained by precedent.