Supreme Court

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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. 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5/31/2019
  

  Historians call Clarence Thomas’ anti-abortion argument, "A gross misuse of historical facts"

  “Linking the pro-choice movement to racism . . . He’s a bad man,” Georgia State law professor Eric Segall says

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/26/19
  

  The Indian Law That Helps Build Walls

  by Maggie Blackhawk

  The Supreme Court’s legal abuse of Native Americans set the stage for America’s poor treatment of many of its vulnerable populations.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/29/2019
  

  Adam Cohen: Clarence Thomas Knows Nothing of My Work

  by Adam Cohen

  The justice used my book to tie abortion to eugenics. But his rendition of the history is incorrect.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/10/19
  

  Retired Justice John Paul Stevens Talks History, His New Book And Ping-Pong

  "The world is changing much faster than I anticipated," he says.

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• 4/7/19
  

  The Long History of Anti-Immigration Legislation and "Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude"

  by Stephanie Hinnershitz

  The Supreme Court's Nielsen v. Preap decision is just the latest example of using this concept to deport immigrants.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/19
  

  Poor criminal defendants need better legal counsel to achieve a just society

  by Connie Hassett-Walker

  Why we must fulfill the promise of a famous Supreme Court decision to truly achieve criminal justice reform.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/12/19
  

  FDR’s court-packing scheme was a ‘humiliating’ defeat

  Yet the idea has been revived by some of the liberals seeking the presidency.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  2/24/19
  

  The Lost History of FDR's Court Packing Scandal

  Some Democrats are talking about adding justices to the bench. But the revelations show almost no one understands what really happened back in the 1930s. 

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• 2/3/19
  

  Six Times the Failure of a Political Nomination Changed American History 

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Including slavery, gay marriage, abortion rights, and desegregation. 

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  Accessed 1/29/19
  

  The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law

  How Plessy v. Ferguson shaped the history of racial discrimination in America.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-12-2018
  

  The Supreme Court confirmation process is actually less political than it once was

  by Timothy S. Huebner

  Our fights over nominees might be bitter, but they’re still less contentious than in the 19th century

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-27-18
  

  Is Half of Oklahoma an Indian Reservation? The Supreme Court Sifts the Merits

  The argument was made up of equal parts history, much of it dark, and an assessment of the practical implications of a ruling that Congress had never clearly destroyed the sovereignty of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation over the area, covering about half the state.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-31-18
  

  William proposed. Sandra said no. They reunited on the Supreme Court.

  Decades before they would serve together on the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O’Connor were engaged in a different type of courtship.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-5-18
  

  Roe v. Wade’s forgotten loser: The remarkable story of Dallas prosecutor Henry Wade

  Henry Wade was a renowned Dallas prosecutor when the landmark abortion case bearing his name was decided by the Supreme Court in 1973.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-31-18
  

  How Modern Medicine Has Changed the Supreme Court

  Longer lives, longer terms and tougher nomination fights, as well as a premium on youth.

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• SOURCE: Think Progress
  8-23-18
  

  Neil Gorsuch is the most illegitimate member of the Supreme Court in U.S. history

  by Ian Millhiser

  The confirmation process broke a quarter century ago, and no one noticed.