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Justices decline to reinstate GOP-backed congressional voting maps in North Carolina, Pennsylvania

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Share The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block orders by courts in North Carolina and Pennsylvania that threw out the congressional maps enacted by the states’ Republican legislatures and replaced them with maps drawn by the trial courts. The North Carolina case.

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With Thomas in hospital, eight justices hear N.C. Republicans’ plea to intervene in voter-ID lawsuit

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Share With all eyes focused on the nomination hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, selected by President Joe Biden to succeed the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, the Supreme Court was back to work on Monday morning. The legislators then came to the Supreme Court, which agreed last fall to weigh in. In Berger v. But the U.S.

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SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Four Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases last week, it was missing hospitalized Justice Clarence Thomas. The issues before the Court included challenges to North Carolina’s voter ID law, the waiver of arbitration agreements, and international child custody disputes. Sundance, Inc.: Concepcion , 563 U.S.

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Federal Court Asked to Address 14th Amendment Effort to Bar Trump

JonathanTurley

One thing, however, we agree upon: it is time for the federal courts to rule on this theory to bring clarity to the election. That may now occur in West Virginia where Attorney General Patrick Morrisey wants a federal court to throw out a lawsuit attempting to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in the state. Castro received a J.D.

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Crunching the Numbers: Does Justice Jackson’s Dissent on Affirmative Action Add Up?

JonathanTurley

The last week’s historic decisions from the Supreme Court led to an array of factual objections from critics. That is not the case with a mathematical challenge raised to the dissent of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in the North Carolina affirmative action case. Those mistakes, however, had little impact on the reasoning.

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Doubting Thomas: Why The Failure to Cancel a Supreme Court Justice May Not Mean Much for Other “Contingent” Faculty

JonathanTurley

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. The problem is that most targets of these campaigns have neither the status nor the day job of a Supreme Court justice. Here is the column: Clarence Thomas last week became cancel culture’s latest target.

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Can Universities Offer Faculty Race-Based Benefits in Seeking Tenure?

JonathanTurley

The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on the use of race criteria in the admission of students in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. For decades, universities have avoided the type of outright quota the court held unconstitutional in Regents of the University of California v.