Source: ALEX WROBLEWSKI / Getty Megyn Kelly has been going full Megyn KKKelly in regard to the subject of immigrants on U.S. soil, and how even the ones who are documented need to leave because they just can’t assimilate into whatever it is white conservatives think “American” culture is. So, it should surprise no one […]
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Congress may establish independent agencies “to assist it with its functions,” Roberts claimed, but could not “foist those agencies upon the president, and thus deprive him of the ‘executive power vested [in him] by the Constitution.’” The president-as-victim framework is a defining trait of the unitary executive theory, which often paints the executive branch as […]
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In a scathing dissent, joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan, Sotomayor warned that Trump had just become more powerful than the English monarch, whose Parliament “often restricted the Crown’s ability to remove even high-level royal officers.” “The text of the Constitution, along with its history, the longstanding practices of the political branches, […]
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After Bruen, states that historically favored greater restrictions on guns rewrote their laws to accommodate the Supreme Court’s ruling. Among those states was Hawaii. One of its changes was to the state’s “default rule” for trespassing. Before Bruen, it was lawful to bring a concealed weapon onto private property that is generally open to the […]
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She cited Alito’s assertion that “poverty and deprivation are no reflection on character, and there is no justification for denigrating the character of Haitians who suffer from and bear no responsibility for their country’s ills.” At the same time, Kagan also quoted from Trump’s public comments about Haitians at length: Haitians are “eating the dogs.… […]
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Nitrogen-hypoxia executions are fairly simple in theory. Earth’s atmosphere is roughly 78 percent nitrogen and 20 percent oxygen, with trace elements rounding out the remaining two percent. Humans have evolved to breathe large amounts of nitrogen, and we can do so indefinitely as long as some oxygen is present. Alabama’s plan is to simply subtract […]
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Just two days ago, Trump was bragging on Truth Social about having a “38-0” record, crowing about taking “out many bad Political ‘Leaders’ and Pundits including Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lightweight ‘Congressman’ Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Brad Raffensperger of Georgia, REALLY DUMB Stephen Colbert of CBS, and others.” Lahn, a farmer, drew a lot […]
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Despite his jurisprudential claims, it is hard to avoid the sense that Thomas’s personal views carry the day here. He describes Smith’s crimes in detail, as if it were relevant to the legal analysis. Unlike his colleagues, who all use the term “intellectual disability,” Thomas uses “mental retardation” when describing the conditions at issue here, […]
Read MoreSource: diane555 / Getty On Monday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court previously ruled was racially gerrymandered. NBC News reports that the Supreme Court set aside those previous rulings and sent the case back to the lower courts for relitigation. Alabama has tried for […]
Read MoreThe worst is still yet to come, though; the full effect of high gas prices will not affect everything else for a few more months, according to Citigroup, who told its clients Monday that “energy costs likely would not start to feed through to core goods prices for at least a few more months.” Meanwhile, […]
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Source: Handout / Getty On April 1, the Supreme Court delivered a major, and controversial, decision in Chiles v. Salazar, ruling 8–1 against Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy for minors. The case centers on House Bill 19-1129, a 2019 measure that prohibits licensed clinicians from attempting to change a young person’s sexual orientation or gender […]
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On Tuesday, Poland also rejected a U.S. request for the country to send a Patriot missile battery to the Middle East to help intercept Iranian missiles. Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz posted on X, “Our Patriot batteries and their armaments are used to protect Polish airspace and NATO’s eastern flank. Nothing is changing in this […]
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Unsurprisingly, the conservative justices apparently agreed with that view. The other parental plaintiffs, however, argued that the California law intruded upon their rights as parents, which they said were guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. The doctrine that the clause protects unenumerated rights through its reference to “liberty” is known as substantive due […]
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