The Biden administration’s regulation aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns will be in effect while court challenges play out.
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Justice Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court
Democrats last week pushed Supreme Court ethics legislation through a Senate committee, though the bill’s prospects in the full Senate are dim.
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Influential activist Leonard Leo funded media campaign lionizing Clarence Thomas
Leo is known for shepherding conservative judicial nominees, but the PR campaign shows he has continued to influence support of those justices after helping them secure lifetime appointments.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Supreme Court crisis of confidence will deepen without reform
It’s past time the court institute a code of conduct with new standards for disclosure.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: The undoing of Clarence Thomas – and of racial justice in America
To eliminate racism, do we have to retain racial categories, or must we eliminate any idea of race as real?
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Supreme Court’s conservatives have not fulfilled their constitutional obligations
Hence, they can be removed.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Clarence Page: At least the Supreme Court offered alternatives to affirmative action
The Supreme Court scrapped race as a factor in college admissions, but the Roberts court pointed the way to economic class as a better remedy.
Posted inTimes Record
From the Chamber: The economics of exclusion
Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down several rulings as they do at the end of June prior to their summer recess. The three rulings most discussed on social and mainstream media all involve new exclusions. First, SCOTUS ruled 6-3 against President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief program, saying it […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Christine Flowers: Supreme Court decision finally erases legalized discrimination
Every year, during the last few days of June, I sit at my computer and wait impatiently for the most important Supreme Court decisions to be announced. Last year, the picnic brought the Dobbs decision, which ended legalized abortion, so it seemed like anything else would be a let-down. Boy was I wrong. Last week, […]
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Elwood Watson: Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling is very revealing
After decades of aggressive and strategic efforts from influential right-wing forces the Supreme Court outlawed race conscious admissions at universities throughout the nation, dismantling decades of progress and crippling the potential of racial diversity and pluralism at our nation’s institutions of higher education. Chief Justice John Roberts, speaking for the majority, argued that “the student […]