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SCOTUS refuses Muslim inmate’s request for imam instead of Christian chaplain for execution
On Thursday evening at 10:12 pm, Alabama executed death row inmate Domineque Ray by lethal injection, after the Supreme Court denied his request for his imam, a Muslim chaplain, to be present. Ray had argued that Alabama making only Christian chaplain’s available infringed his constitutional rights.
Senator drops potential SCOTUS bombshell in rumored sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh
Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) may have dropped a bombshell onto the confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. As Vox reported, Feinstein sent the FBI new information allegedly referencing a sexual assault allegation against the judge from his high school years on Thursday. In a statement, Feinstein explained the letter she received from a constituent and […]
DACA protections for immigrant youth may head to SCOTUS after conservative judge’s ruling
According to reports from the Atlantic, a court ruling is expected in a matter of days from a federal judge in Brownsville, Texas which could throw the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program into disarray, leaving it in effect in some areas of the country and erasing it from the books in others. DACA was […]
SCOTUS reverses lower courts decisions, sides with Trump’s Muslim travel ban in 5-4 vote
As reported by the Huffington Post’s Willa Frej, the U.S. Supreme Court voted along party lines to back a Trump administration travel ban aimed at closing windows for immigration from predominantly Muslim countries. Announced in September, this particular version of the ban is the result of two different repackagings of its contents, which was initially […]
SCOTUS rules voters can be purged from Ohio rolls if they don’t respond to a notice after missing 1 vote
The Supreme Court upheld Ohio’s efforts to engage in voter suppression in a 5-4 vote, according to The New York Times. The ruling effectively means that if voters miss a few elections and fail to respond to a notice from election officials, they can be kicked off the voting rolls in the state. Republicans have […]
Thurgood Marshall Still Asks Us To Protect The Less Powerful
by Daniel Johnson Thurgood Marshall is arguably the most important figure in modern judicial and legal history. Founder of the Legal Defense Fund as well as its first president and Director-Counsel, the first Black judge to sit on the Second Circuit of Appeals, the first Black Solicitor General, and finally, the first Black Supreme Court […]
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is Holding The Line
By Daniel Johnson Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman appointed to the Supreme Court and an appointee of former President Joe Biden, has been consistently and sharply breaking with the conservative Supreme Court, utilizing the power afforded through her dissents to issue missives, aiming those arguments at not only the conservative Supreme Court […]
U.S. Supreme Court secures a surprise win for Planned Parenthood… for now
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld victories in lower courts by Planned Parenthood after Republican-led states sought to strip the organization of Medicaid funding following the court’s move further to the right with the confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh.
Woman who wrote letter accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault comes forward
After much deliberation and at least one alleged occasion of her privacy being invaded by a reporter for BuzzFeed, Christine Blasey Ford has come forward as the woman who is accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Ford alleges in the letter, which was sent to her congressperson earlier this summer but was revealed […]
9 protestors arrested at Portland ICE facility as immigration protests spread nationwide
On June 28th, nine people were arrested for protesting the separation of migrant children at the Southwest Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters.
Supreme Court: Colorodo shop can’t be forced to serve gay couple, but ruling may not apply to similar cases
On Monday, June 4th the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of a Colorado baker, Jack Phillips—owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop—who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple in a landmark case. The case received nationwide coverage and fiery responses from both LGBT advocacy groups and Republican senators.
1 year after Pulse, the vulnerability (and strength) of queer people of color is more apparent than ever
One year ago yesterday, a gunman snatched away the lives of 49 dancing souls at a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL. This tragedy became known as the Pulse Massacre, the largest mass shooting (that was not a military operation) in American history. As a few queer people of color pointed out amidst the predictable rush […]