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Man Accused of Graphic Threats to Six Justices

Panos Anastasiou, 76, made hundreds of threats to Supreme Court, say prosecutors

(Newser) - An Alaska man accused of sending threats to injure and kill six Supreme Court justices and some of their family members has been indicted on federal charges, per the AP .
  • Panos Anastasiou, 76, is accused of sending more than 465 messages through a public court website, including graphic threats of
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After Affirmative Action Ban, Numbers Emerge on Campuses

Following 2023 SCOTUS ruling, Harvard, other elite schools see a dip in Black student enrollment

(Newser) - Last summer, a Supreme Court ruling squashed affirmative action at colleges and universities across the nation, with the majority deciding that taking race into account during the admissions process was a form of discrimination. Now, the numbers are in at Harvard on the fallout from that decision, with the enrollment...

Supreme Court Gives GOP Partial Victory on Arizona Elections

State can enforce measures requiring proof of citizenship to register

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Thursday effectively came down on both sides of an Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, in a partial victory for Republicans who had filed an emergency appeal in the case. The 5-4 ruling lets Arizona enforce measures passed in 2022 requiring...

SCOTUS Rules Against Move to Nix Trump Gag Order

High court rebuffs Missouri AG's argument that gag order in NY hush-money case would stifle Trump

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Monday shut down a long-shot push from Missouri to remove a gag order in former President Trump's hush-money case and delay his sentencing in New York. The Missouri attorney general went to the high court with the unusual request to sue New York after the...

Americans 'Getting Whacked' by Too Many Laws: Gorsuch

SCOTUS justice has a new book out on Tuesday

(Newser) - Ordinary Americans are "getting whacked" by too many laws and regulations, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says in a new book that underscores his skepticism of federal agencies and the power they wield. "Too little law and we're not safe, and our liberties aren't protected,"...

Judge Has Trump Election Case Back From Supreme Court

Chutkan has to apply immunity ruling to prosecution's case

(Newser) - The federal election interference case against Donald Trump is back with the trial judge after sitting at the Supreme Court for months. The three-judge appeals court panel returned the prosecution on Friday to US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, CBS News reports, who can now set a schedule and announce next...

Democrats Try to Undo Immunity Ruling

Bill specifies what's not up to Supreme Court

(Newser) - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced legislation Thursday affirming that presidents do not have immunity for criminal actions, an attempt to reverse the Supreme Court's landmark decision last month. Schumer's No Kings Act would declare that presidents are not immune from criminal law and clarify that Congress, not...

R. Kelly Asks SCOTUS to Toss Conviction

Singer argues crimes occurred before law was passed to extend statute of limitations

(Newser) - Convicted sex offender R. Kelly wants out of prison and is asking the Supreme Court to make it happen. Lawyers for the singer serving mostly concurrent 30-year and 20-year sentences for sex trafficking and producing child sexual abuse material have filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, reports the Hill...

John Roberts Doesn't Look Like a Centrist After All

Joan Biskupic writes for CNN that SCOTUS chief justice's vision has 'become more aggressive' of late

(Newser) - Think Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is a centrist? Think again, per Joan Biskupic, who pens an exclusive piece for CNN on the behind-the-scenes machinations regarding the high court's recent ruling in favor of presidential immunity. Biskupic notes that Roberts has often been viewed as the voice of...

Biden: 'Outrageous' Decisions Call for Supreme Court Changes

At LBJ Library, president pitches term limits, ethics code, reversing immunity ruling

(Newser) - In an address in Texas, President Biden said Monday that extremism on the Supreme Court is undermining public confidence in the institution and called on Congress to quickly establish term limits and an enforceable ethics code for the court's nine justices. He also called on lawmakers to ratify a...

Johnson Calls Biden's SCOTUS Proposals a 'Dangerous Gambit'

Speaker says reforms will be 'dead on arrival' in House

(Newser) - President Biden unveiled his proposals for reforming the Supreme Court on Monday—and House Speaker Mike Johnson said they would be "dead on arrival" in the House. In a statement posted on social media, the Republican accused Biden of seeking to "delegitimize the Court," reports Reuters .
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Biden: What's Happening With SCOTUS 'Is Not Normal'

Writing for WaPo , president says high court is in 'crisis of ethics,' vows to make reforms

(Newser) - In America, "no one is above the law. Not the president of the United States. Not a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. No one." That's President Biden's assertion in an opinion piece for the Washington Post , where on Monday he vowed to...

Kagan Wants a Crackdown on SCOTUS Ethics

Justice suggests panel of lower-court judges could evaluate complaints

(Newser) - The Supreme Court requires oversight and enforcement of its new ethics code, Justice Elena Kagan argued Thursday, suggesting lower-court judges might serve to police the nation's highest court. The liberal justice said she welcomed the ethics rules, but saw reason to criticize the lack of "enforcement mechanisms attached...

Biden Will Reportedly Endorse Major SCOTUS Reform

Though it seems unlikely administration could get the necessary congressional approval

(Newser) - President Biden has long resisted the idea of pushing for big changes to the Supreme Court, but sources say that has now changed. In the wake of ethics scandals related to Clarence Thomas and other justices, plus controversial high court decisions on presidential immunity and abortion, among other things, Biden...

Thomas, Alito Face Articles of Impeachment

AOC cites gifts to justices, refusals to recuse

(Newser) - As promised , Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced articles of impeachment in the House against Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. The New York Democrat cited their failure to disclose gifts from people with matters before the court and their refusal to recuse themselves from cases "in...

Dem Senators Want Special Counsel for Clarence Thomas

Whitehouse, Wyden ask AG Garland to investigate Thomas' 'suspicious silence' over gifts

(Newser) - After a slew of jarring stories tying Clarence Thomas to multiple undisclosed gifts, loans, and other perks from ultra-wealthy friends, two Democratic senators are now trying to get to the bottom of it. The Hill reports that Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Ron Wyden of Oregon have requested...

Carjacker Shot Near Sotomayor's Home by Her Security

Suspect does not appear to have any connection to the Supreme Court justice

(Newser) - A member of the security detail for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor shot an armed man amid an attempted carjacking last week, according to sources and a recently unsealed charging document. US marshals, wearing shirts that identified them as such, were sitting in an unmarked car outside the justice's...

SCOTUS Sidesteps New Gun Cases
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SCOTUS Sidesteps New Gun Cases

Top court won't hear challenge to Illinois assault weapons ban

(Newser) - The Supreme Court sidestepped a new set of Second Amendment fights Tuesday, declining to hear a challenge to an assault weapons ban in Illinois and sending other gun cases back to lower courts, including a challenge to the law used to convict Hunter Biden. The moves came after the justices...

A 'King Above the Law:' 4 Takes on Immunity Ruling

Critics fear the court has turned the president into a king, but defenders say that's overblown

(Newser) - The Supreme Court's blockbuster ruling that presidents have immunity for "official" actions continues to resonate, with all kinds of analysis on what it does and doesn't mean.
  • Carte blanche: In the view of Elie Mystal at the Nation , the ruling means that a sitting president can go
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Separate Thomas Opinion Has Big Implications

Justice questions authority of Jack Smith, who also is handling classified documents case

(Newser) - Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court's bombshell majority opinion on Monday in favor of Donald Trump on the question of presidential immunity . The opinion focused on allegations that Trump illegally tried to undo the results of the 2020 election, but Thomas wrote a separate concurring opinion that could help...

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