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Biden to create bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform

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Share President Joe Biden will issue an executive order to create a commission to study potential reforms to the Supreme Court, the White House announced on Friday. In its statement, the White House indicated that the commission will be a bipartisan one, made up of experts “on the Court and the Court reform debate.”

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. David Beckwith (Oct.

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“A Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or Perhaps Both”: ACLU Opposes Transparency Law on Educational Materials

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I understand the the impetus of this law was opposition to racially divisive materials, including Critical Race Theory (CRT) material. This brings us back to the model law. The laws passed in states l ike Pennsylvania are not CRT prohibitions but required posting of teaching materials, syllabi, and scholastic achievement scores online.

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“Vote Reparations”: Law Professor Calls For The Votes of Black Americans To Count Twice

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Brandon Hasbrouck is an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has written an article in The Nation calling for a new form of reparations based on voting. the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.”. In 1964, the Supreme Court handed down Reynolds v.

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Joe Biden is No George Washington, and Valley Forge Proved it

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Even as Biden was telling citizens to vote Democrat to preserve democracy, a Democratic activist was seeking to remove a GOP congressman from the ballot in a nearby Pennsylvania district. As usual, he has remained silent as he did on court packing in the last election. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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Ballot Cleansing: Democrats are Moving to Bar Republicans from Ballots Nationwide

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These efforts show how this theory could place this country on a slippery slope to political chaos if not clearly and finally rejected by the Supreme Court. The filing against Perry came the same day Pennsylvania Democratic state Sen. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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