🏛️ Supreme Court Accountability - October 22, 2024

🏛️ Supreme Court rulings aren’t just headlines—they affect your rights and freedoms! Read the latest updates and join the movement for accountability.

Friends, in this era of misinformation and growing authoritarianism, People Power United is stepping up to ensure you have the latest news, facts, and information right at your fingertips.

Just a quick heads-up: This week, I'll be sharing content from our ongoing newsletters—today's feature is from Supreme Court Accountability. We post news briefs almost daily, and you can always find our archived newsletters here.

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🗽People Power United is a grassroots group committed to championing progress and power to the people. Supreme Court updates help us hold our leaders accountable. A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

Daily Call-To-Action

People Power United members are committed to championing progress and power to the people. We don’t just complain, we do the work to make change happen. Join us to push back against harms to our community:

• Click here to Tell Your Member of Congress: Expand the Supreme Court to protect our voting and civil rights, create term limits, and institute a code of ethics.

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Supreme Court News Briefs - October 22, 2024

Court Reform

NY Post: Dem Sen. Tammy Baldwin, with nine terms in Congress, pushes SCOTUS term limits in heated debate

• Amy Sikma reports that during a debate between Senator Tammy Baldwin and Republican businessman Eric Hovde, Sen. Baldwin urged term limits for the Supreme Court justices and clear ethics standards. 

Fox News: Squad member calls for 'radically' changing the Supreme Court: 'SCOTUS reform is on the ballot in November'

• Alex Nitzberg reports that Rep. Ilhan Omar recently renewed her calls for Supreme Court reforms, including expansion, term limits, and ethics reform. 

Courthouse News: Judicial partiality

• Milt Policzer writes about possible solutions that could produce judicial impartiality. 

Trump

Washington Post: The Trump Trials: Pre-election edition

• Perry Stein writes about the current status of Donald Trump’s many trials as election day rapidly approaches. 

Reproductive Rights

New York Times: States Revive Lawsuit to Sharply Curb Access to Abortion Pill

• Pam Belluck reports on a new lawsuit challenging the FDA’s approval of mifepristone that takes on new tactics after the Supreme Court threw the initial case out earlier this year. The case was filed by conservative AGs in Missouri, Idaho and Kansas. 

General 

New York Times: A Writer Sees Leniency in the Supreme Court’s Approach to Public Corruption

• Adam Liptak writes about a new article by Josh Chafetz, a law professor at Georgetown, in which he argues that “five rulings by the justices in recent years have allowed behavior that is “sketchy as hell” and meant to make the judiciary look good by contrast.” 

Rejected Appeals

USA Today: Supreme Court rejects GOP states' efforts to intervene in border policy dispute

New York Times: A ‘New Day’? Justices Step Back, Slightly, From an Aggressive Climate Stance.

ABC: Supreme Court won’t revive Cohen's Trump lawsuit claiming retaliatory imprisonment

New Cases

Reuters: US Supreme Court to weigh which courts can hear EPA clean air policy challenges

• Nate Raymond reports that on Monday the Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the EPA "could steer certain lawsuits challenging agency actions designed to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions away from regional appeals courts favored by opponents of its actions and to a court in Washington that regularly hears regulatory disputes." 

People Power United’s Statement on Supreme Court Accountability

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.

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