Daily Supreme Court News Briefing - July 8, 2024

🗽Supreme Court updates to help us hold our leaders accountable. A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 8, 2024

People Power United declares the Supreme Court has become unhinged.

In response to recent Supreme Court shenanigans, People Power United - a progressive grassroots group - issued the following statement:

“The Supreme Court has become unhinged. There is no power like that of the people, and People Power United stands ready to protect our communities against any and all injustices,” said Laurie Woodward García of People Power United.

People Power United will continue to oppose such harm to our community and champion civil rights for all.

Daily Supreme Court News Briefing

General 

The Economist: How is the Supreme Court changing America?

Washington Post: The Supreme Court upended gun laws nationwide. Mass confusion has followed.

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  Rachel Weiner reports on the Supreme Court’s rulings on guns this term, speaking to experts about how the Court’s attempt to clarify Bruen has introduced even more confusion. 

Fox News: Here’s how the Supreme Court got the big free speech stuff right

• Robert Corn-Revere praises the Supreme Court’s ruling in Moody v. Netchoice. 

The Guardian: US supreme court abandoned the rule of law and triggered a need for basic reform

• Laurence Tribe argues that the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling has prompted the need for Court reform as well as a constitutional amendment against immunity from criminal prosecution. 

New York Times: The Supreme Court is Not Done Remaking America

Podcast episode

MSNBC: The Roberts Court has checkmated the other branches

• Hayes Brown writes about how recent Supreme Court rulings have taken power from the other branches of government to increase power in the judiciary. 

The Hill: Law schools left reeling after latest Supreme Court earthquakes

• Lexi Lonas speaks to law professors who are grappling with a new legal landscape following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Chevron. 

Washington Post: Supreme Court ethics remain at center stage after hard-right rulings

• Justin Jouvenal reports that ethics questions continue to take center stage in the public’s perception of the Supreme Court, especially after this term’s extreme rulings.

Washington Post: The Supreme Court is making big changes to how the government works

• The Editorial Board argues that “the court is hampering federal authorities’ ability to act in the public interest and to protect vulnerable minorities — even when Congress asks them to.”

National Review: Progressive Dark-Money Groups Settle on 2024 Strategy: Supreme Court Alarmism

• Ryan Mills reports on new campaigns from groups on the left, like Stand Up America and Demand Justice, that focus on the federal courts. 

The Hill: Supreme Court immunity ruling raises questions about military orders 

• Brad Dress reports that the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling has raised new questions about limits to prosecution for orders given by the president as commander in chief to the military.

MSNBC: Who's most responsible for this Supreme Court's awful rulings? Ronald Reagan.

• Anthony Michael Kreis argues that the Roberts Court is the embodiment of the Reagan Revolution. He says we must disabuse ourselves of the notion that courts are impartial.

Amy Coney Barrett 

AP: Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett shows an independence from majority view in recent opinions

• Lindsay Whitehurst writes about Justice Barrett’s recent moves to break with the other conservative justices on the Court. 

New York Times: The Most Interesting Justice on the Supreme Court Is Also the Loneliest

• Stephen Vladeck writes about Justice Barrett’s dissent in Fischer, and her willingness to stand apart from the other Republican appointed justices. 

Election 

The Hill: Democrats take aim at Supreme Court with eyes on November

• Mike Lillis and Mychael Schnell report that following the end of the Supreme Court term, some top Democrats have renewed calls and attention on Court reform as we head into the November election. 

Immunity Ruling and Trump

Politico: Trump seeks new pause in classified documents case, citing Supreme Court’s immunity ruling

• Kyle Cheney reports that Donald Trump has filed for a “monthslong pause of his criminal proceedings in Florida” after the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling. 

CNN: Federal judge pauses some deadlines in Trump’s classified documents case after SCOTUS ruling

• Hannah Rabinowitz reports that Judge Aileen Cannon “set a two-week briefing schedule for those arguments and paused three unrelated filing deadlines” following the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling. 

Wall Street Journal: The Supreme Court Restrains Trump

• The Editorial Board argues that the Supreme Court actually reigned in the executive branch and limited Donald Trump’s ability to prosecute Joe Biden. 

NPR: The Supreme Court's immunity ruling complicates all the cases against Trump
Podcast episode featuring Harry Litman.

The Atlantic: What the Supreme Court’s Trump-Immunity Ruling Means for 2024

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The Guardian: The US supreme court utterly distorted the true threat to American democracy

• Lawrence Douglas argues that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump’s immunity case ignores the true danger of another Trump presidency. 

Newsweek: Supreme Court Just Gave Joe Biden 'a Powerful Tool'—Legal Analyst

• Matthew Impelli reports that legal analyst Glenn Kirschner last week said that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump’s immunity case may have thrown the former president a lifeline, but also provided Joe Biden a “powerful tool” to protect democracy. 

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