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SCOTUS allows Florida's pay-to-vote scheme, which disenfranchises thousands of ex-felons, to take effect. This likely means thousands of Floridians will be unable to vote in the 2020 election due to
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Who'sreadyforSCOTUSopinion(s)at10?! Today is NOT the last opinion day of the Supreme Court's term. We don't know when that is yet! Big cases remaining: •contraceptive mandate•Oklahoma tribal lands•ministerial exception•T
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Who's ready for SCOTUS opinions at 10?! (On this particular morning, I am not!) Let's review what happened yesterday at SCOTUS. First, the conservative majority held that non-U.S. citizens outside
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Who's ready for SCOTUS orders at 9:30 and opinions at 10?Big cases remaining: abortion, government funding of religious schools, the contraceptive mandate, faithless electors, Trump's financial records... Also, SCOTUS is
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By a 5-4 vote, with Roberts joining the liberals, SCOTUS just denied a church’s emergency application seeking to block the enforcement of a COVID-19 order strictly limiting large gatherings, including
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Judge Hinkle’s decision invalidating Florida’s “pay-to-vote” scheme as an unconstitutional poll tax is one of the best voting rights opinions I’ve ever read. Incredibly thorough, meticulous, fact-laden, and quite stirring.
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There are SO many insane details about the Wisconsin Supreme Court's 4–3 decision invalidating the state's stay-at-home order. But start here: NO ONE KNOWS if the decision takes effect immediately
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Today the Supreme Court hears two cases that ask: Do the Electoral College's "electors" have a constitutional right to cast their votes for any candidate they want, regardless of who
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Today, Donald Trump's lawyers—supported by the Justice Department—will argue that the president is above the law. We're about to find out if the Supreme Court agrees. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/supreme-court-mazars-vance-trum
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A million people have said this already but it remains startling to see American society laud "essential" working class people as "heroes" when, before all these, we treated them like
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Trump Judge Justin Walker, currently up for a promotion to the DC Circuit, attacks a mayor for discouraging drive-in church services—in a wildly intemperate opinion filled with inappropriate rhetoric and
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The Attorney General went on Fox News, spouted a bunch of dangerous coronavirus truther–adjacent nonsense about stay-at-home orders and chloroquine, then bashed the media and Robert Mueller. The Federalist Society
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