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What Role Should the Supreme Court Play in American Politics?

John Fabian Witt A wide-ranging new book by Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan examines how America’s highest court often gets in the way of democratic politics. The post What Role Should the Supreme Court Play in American Politics? appeared first on The Nation .

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Jury selection begins in federal death penalty trial of Buffalo, NY, supermarket mass shooterJury selection is underway in Buffalo, New York, in a federal trial that could lead to the death penalty for a white supremacist who killed 10 people at a supermarket. The 2022 attack is believed to be the deadliest shooting against Black people in modern U.S. history. Payton Gendron faces dozens of federal hate crime and gun charges. He is already…

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Democrat Roy Cooper Would Vote in Senate to Confirm Radical Left JudgesSoft-on-crime North Carolina Democrat Senate candidate Roy Cooper has a lengthy history of elevating far-left judges and siding with radical pro-abortion activists during his two terms as governor.

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Louisiana federal judge denies death row inmate's request, execution can move aheadA federal judge presiding over Todd Wessinger's plea for a new sentencing date decided Tuesday to side with an appeals court and denied him possibility of leniency, paving the way for his execution.

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Ex-Mass cop Matthew Farwell defense says federal prosecutors acting in 'bad faith'Attorneys for former Stoughton Police Officer Matthew Farwell said in a new legal filing that federal prosecutors are acting in bad faith.

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“Judges Do Not Authorize Home Raids Lightly!” — Mike Davis Discusses Why Federal Judge Signed Off on Search Warrant for Ilhan Omar’s Home Amid Immigration Fraud Investigation (VIDEO) * The Gateway PunFederal agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed a judicially authorized search warrant early Monday morning at the Washington, DC-area home…

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AG’s office sides with community in the fight over public access to an East Texas waterwayA brief on the Cutoff stream, which a billionaire blocked access to, was issued by the state agency in the days leading up to oral arguments before the 12th Court of Appeals.

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‘Borders on the absurd.’ California fights Trump lawsuit to set aside 20,000 ballotsCalifornia’s top attorney called on a federal judge to block the Trump administration’s efforts to force the state to set aside up to 20,000 ballots that prosecutors claim could have been mailed to noncitizens. In a court filing Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, Attorney General Rob Bonta said the lawsuit the Trump administration […]

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Ahead of Midterms, Justice Kagan Says Rulings Have Intensified PolarizationThe justice said during a discussion that recent Supreme Court decisions on voting rights, gerrymandering and campaign finance have deepened America’s divides.

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Study Shows Foreign-Born Judges Rule Against Trump's Migration ReformsAn audit of decisions handed down by all 58 foreign-born federal judges looks to see if they are more likely to favor migrants' legal claims. The post Study Shows Foreign-Born Judges Rule Against Trump’s Migration Reforms appeared first on Breitbart .

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WSJ scorches Trump's openness to stunning 'grand bargain' with dictators: 'Worst idea'The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board warned that President Donald Trump’s openness to a three-way summit with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping “could blow up alliances at home and abroad,” in a Tuesday editorial titled “Trump’s New Global Triumvirate?” “It’s hard to know what President Trump is up to at any one moment because he operates so much on…

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