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Advocacy Groups Call on Supreme Court to Summarily Reverse Texas Death-Penalty Decision that Flouted Earlier Court Guidance

Organizations advocating for the rights of abused children and those with mental illness and for fair process are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to summarily reverse a TCCA decision that upheld the death sentence imposed on Terence Andrus.

Death Penalty Information Center

The Supreme Court case that seeks to hold police officers accountable

How a little procedural rule before the Supreme Court has big consequences for racialized police misconduct in New England and beyond.

Boston Globe

Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’ to Take Center Stage at House Hearing

The term “shadow docket,” first coined by University of Chicago law professor Will Baude in 2015, refers to emergency rulings decided outside the Court’s regular docket—that is, rulings issued before the lower court has reached a final decision on the merits.

Law and Crime

Conservatives’ takeover of Supreme Court stalled by John Roberts-Brett Kavanaugh bromance

USA Today

Liberal justices object as Supreme Court rejects prisoner’s exercise claim

"We are saddened to live in an era where imposing such cruelty — let alone on a person known to suffer from mental illness — is acceptable to any federal judge." — Daniel M. Greenfield

NBC News

Voting rights group asks Supreme Court to let late mail ballots in Wisconsin count

The voter groups said the flood of absentee ballots and problems arising from the coronavirus pandemic will make it harder for voters to receive their mail ballots and return them on time.

NBC

Trump’s travel ban is a test for the US supreme court – and the country

In a shameful decision during the second world war, the court ruled in favor of Japanese American internment. It must not repeat its mistakes.

The Guardian

David Shapiro: US Supreme Court vs. states’ highest courts: We are giving kids the wrong message.

Schools across the country are effectively diminishing the power of state supreme courts. Learn why MJC's David Shapiro says correcting this understanding is essential for our democracy.

Chicago Tribune

Rare Supreme Court Diversity Shown on MacArthur Justice Team

The lack of racial and gender diversity at U.S. Supreme Court arguments is well known to practitioners and court-watchers alike.

Bloomberg Law

The Supreme Court should have heeded Ketanji Brown Jackson’s wisdom