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High court ruling on injunctions could imperil many court orders blocking the Trump administration
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Friday limiting federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions threatens to upend ...
One of the Supreme Court’s sharpest critics sits on it
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson emerges as a strong voice on an unusually fractious U.S. Supreme Court. Dissenting — again — on ...
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State high courts get limited attention. Here's how to change that ...
A lower court ruled in 2022 that barring people on probation, parole and post-release supervision from voting was unconstitutional. That instantly restored the voting rights of about 56,000 North ...
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America’s state supreme courts don’t look like America
In 2023, white justices made up 81% of state high court benches. But given the nation’s changing makeup, the figure means they are now overrepresented by 22 percentage points. The lack of ...
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Not just the Supreme Court: Ethics troubles plague state high courts
Yet, when judicial ethics are violated at state high courts, the public may never learn about it. While America’s state supreme court justices are some of the most powerful political actors in ...