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SCOTUS Declines To Review Mississippi’s Jim Crow-Era Felony Disenfranchisement Law -
NEW: “#SCOTUS declines to hear a #Mississippi case challenging a lifetime voting ban on people with certain felony convictions. Previously, the 5th Circuit upheld the ban as constitutional, rejecting 8th Amendment claims and ruling against voting advocates” https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/scotus-declines-to-review-mississippis-jim-crow-era-felony-disenfranchisement-law/
🤦🏻♀️"#SCOTUS on Friday allowed #Trump to temporarily freeze millions of dollars in grants to states for addressing teacher shortages, the administration’s first win at the high court since reclaiming power in January.
5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and the three liberals dissenting."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/supreme-court-trump-teacher-grants?cid=ios_app
Judge says #Trump cannot fire head of #independent #watchdog agency
The federal judge’s decision blocks Trump from removing #HamptonDellinger as head of the Office of #SpecialCounsel & sets up a likely #SCOTUS battle over the president’s powers.
#law #NationalSecurity #authoritarianism #autocracy #democracy #SeparationOfPowers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/01/hampton-dellinger-trump-office-special-counsel/
Today in Labor History March 9, 1841: The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that freed the remaining 35 survivors of the Amistad mutiny. In 1839, Portuguese slave traders had illegally transported 52 Mende people from west Africa to Cuba, on the Amistad, in violation of European treaties against the slave trade. Joseph Cinque led his fellow captive Africans in a mutiny, killing the cook and captain, and forcing the remaining crew to return them to Africa. The crew tricked them and sailed up the Atlantic coast, presuming they would be intercepted by the U.S. Navy, which captured the ship near Montauk, Long Island. President Martin Van Buren wanted to send the prisoners back to Spanish authorities in Cuba to stand trial for mutiny. However, the Court recognized the mutineers’ rights as free citizens. Abolitionists raised funds for the mutineers’ defense. Former President John Quincy Adams, who opposed slavery, represented them in court.
#LaborHistory #workingclass #slavery #amistad #cinque #mutiny #SCOTUS #abolition #johnquincyadams #BlackMastodon
No.
“The #Trump administration on Wednesday asked #SCOTUS to allow the president to remove a pair of independent regulators whose cases have broad implications for at least two dozen other agencies, including the Federal Reserve Board, and for how the federal government operates”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/09/trump-supreme-court-fire-independent-regulators/
Via Elie Mystal:
Today has just been "We killed Chevron deference for a reason" day at the #SCOTUS. And that reason, of course, was that the Republican justices want to destroy the environment and help tobacco companies.
As predicted
“Supreme Court's conservatives lean toward allowing country's first religious public charter school”
#SCOTUS
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-considers-endorsing-countrys-first-religious-public-char-rcna203328
My head hurts.
Via Steve Vladeck:
Make it seven:
DOJ just sought emergency relief from #SCOTUS in AFSCME/mass-RIFs case
..marks 15th emerg app from Trump in 16 wks
Across 16 *years,* GWB & Obama admins filed a total of…8.
Lawrence Hurley:
There are now emerg applications pending at SCOTUS on 6 diff Trump policies. That must be an unprecedented #
-birthright citizenship
-agency firings
-Alien Enemies Act
-TPS for Venezuelans
-DOGE access to SSA data
-Ending parole for 500k immigrants
Via Sherrilyn Ifill re: #SCOTUS today 🧵 1/...
So what did I hear at the oral argument in the birthright citizenship case this morning? What was clear from when the cert petition was filed: Trump & his lawyers tried to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Via MSNBC:
BREAKING: Supreme Court won't immediately take up Trump tariffs case
😳
Via Max Berger: 1/...
The Roberts Court has completely de-legitimized the Supreme Court.
Chris Geidner:
BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts issues a temporary, administrative stay blocking orders that DOGE comply with FOIA and start turning over documents to CREW.
#Trump says he could bring back #KilmarAbregoGarcia, an #immigrant his admin wrongly deported to the infamous #CECOT prison in #ElSalvador. But he won’t, despite #SCOTUS’ order to “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia, who was deported unlawfully in the first place.
by Adam Serwer
#law #immigration #FactCheck #TrumpLies #DueProcess #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-abrego-garcia-smears/682773/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXUvK2gAhWVb3xi8qi5xPpA
With each passing day, the #unitedstates sinks deeper in the #cesspool of an egregiously #corrupt #fascist #authoritarian #state. #Rights are mere illusions under #Trump.
According to Vox, Trump has asked #SCOTUS to disregard the Convention Against Torture.
https://www.vox.com/scotus/416163/trump-supreme-court-deport-immigration-convention-torture
#news #uspol #hellscape #america #thisis2025 #torture #deportation #wtf
KEEP 'EM COMING. 1/...
(And guess who dissented🙄) #SCOTUS
Mark Joseph Stern:
#BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25944899-24a1007-order/
#SCOTUS maintains block on #Trump #deportations under wartime #law #AlienEnemiesAct
The US #SupremeCourt on Friday kept in place its block on Trump's deportations of #Venezuelan migrants under a 1798 law historically used only in wartime after their lawyers said the government was set to remove the men without #judicial review in #violation of a prior #CourtOrder by the justices.
#immigration #DueProcess #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-maintains-block-trump-deportations-under-wartime-law-2025-05-16/
“ #SCOTUS allows #Trump to revoke protected status for thousands of Venezuelans
As part of the Trump administration's hardline immigration policy, it seeks to revrse a Biden-era policy that extended protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelans.”
2/ Via Mark Joseph Stern:
Only Justice Jackson notes her dissent.
#SCOTUS announced on Monday that it would NOT hear a major #SecondAmendment challenge to a Maryland #law banning #SemiautomaticRifles like the #AR15. As is the court’s practice, its brief order gave no reasons.
The move, over the objections of 3 conservative justices, let the ban stand & reflected the court’s intermittent engagement with #GunRights. It has issued only 3 significant #2A decisions since recognizing an individual right to own #guns in 2008.
Via Klasfeld:
NEWS
In a new filing, immigration lawyers urge #SCOTUS not to grant the Trump admin's request to pause an order blocking their due-process-free flights to human rights-abusing ad war-torn countries like South Sudan.
Here's how it ends. 1/...
If the alleged harms to the United States’ interests from class members’ continuing presence in Djibouti are as significant as Defendants claim, they retain the authority to return the individuals to the United States....
"MAJOR:🚨SC's conservative majority appears poised to protect Fed Reserve from being fired by pres (if #Trump tried), citing its historical context, but WILL ALLOW PRETTY MUCH EVERY OTHER BOARD DISMISSAL."
-D Stublen
"#SCOTUS allows Trump to fire labor board mems. Apparent 6-3 decision with all liberal justices in dissent. Ct says more harm from denying POTUS right to remove officials than from those officials staying in office."
-J Gerstein
#Fed #Impunity #Fascism #USPol https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25951855-24a966-order/
🤦🏻♀️" #SCOTUS granted a #Trump admin request that allows him to fire members of independent fed agencies, while suggesting legal reasoning would not apply to the Fed Reserve.
..formalizes temp decision along similar lines that allowed him to fire Gwynne Wilcox, member of NLRB, and Cathy Harris, member of the Merit Systems Protection Bd"
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The Supreme Court has issued a ruling that drastically limits the scope of environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects.
Federal agencies are no longer obligated to assess wide-ranging indirect impacts, including those related to climate change. An environmental lawyer looks at the implications:
https://theconversation.com/supreme-court-changes-the-game-on-federal-environmental-reviews-257881
Today #Trump ended Temporary Protected Status (#TPS) for #Nepal, which has lasted since 2015. He tried to kill it in his first term, but was blocked in court. That is much less likely this time around, given what's happened already with TPS for Venezuela & the partisan activist #SCOTUS.
#immigration #law #asylum #DHS #HumanRights #WhiteChistianNationalism
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [CIS No. 2817-25; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2015-0003] RIN 1615-ZB74 Termination of the Designation of Nepal for Temporary Protected Status AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Through this notice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is terminating the designation of Nepal for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The designation of Nepal is set to expire on June 24, 2025. After reviewing country conditions and consulting with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary has determined that Nepal no longer continues to meet the conditions for its designation for TPS. The Secretary therefore is terminating the TPS designation of Nepal as required by statute. This termination is effective [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER . After INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER], nationals of Nepal (and aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Nepal) who have been granted TPS under Nepal's designation will no longer have TPS. DATES: The designation of Nepal for TPS is terminated effective at 11:59 p.m., local time, on [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].](/proxy/post_attachment/732311/56d8ff965e.png "DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [CIS No. 2817-25; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2015-0003] RIN 1615-ZB74 Termination of the Designation of Nepal for Temporary Protected Status AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Through this notice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is terminating the designation of Nepal for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The designation of Nepal is set to expire on June 24, 2025. After reviewing country conditions and consulting with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary has determined that Nepal no longer continues to meet the conditions for its designation for TPS. The Secretary therefore is terminating the TPS designation of Nepal as required by statute. This termination is effective [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER . After INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER], nationals of Nepal (and aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Nepal) who have been granted TPS under Nepal's designation will no longer have TPS. DATES: The designation of Nepal for TPS is terminated effective at 11:59 p.m., local time, on [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].")
Via Steve Vladeck:
Three boxes of rulings coming from #SCOTUS starting at 10 ET; that probably means that we're getting between four and six decisions in cases argued earlier this term.
As for which ones, well, we'll know soon enough.
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