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The next time you think “it's just half the court that's bad,” remember that this was an EIGHT-TO-ONE decision, with only ONE member of the court abstaining.

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#LGBTQ #Gay #GayRights #SCOTUS


#SCOTUS Tuesday sided with a #Christian #therapist, rejecting a #Colorado #law that prohibited #MentalHealth professionals from trying to change the #SexualOrientation or #gender #identity of #LGBTQ minors.

The court’s decision has implications for >20 other states that have similar laws banning [barbaric] so-called #ConversionTherapy, which critics say is ineffective & potentially dangerous for young people.

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After #Trump's departure, yes #SCOTUS will remain. Steve #Miller, Mike #Johnson, and their ilk will lose their sponsorship. Away they go.

It will be up to the #Democrats to find a real leader to replace them. That will start the day after November's election.



Maybe if the good guy lawyers who argue cases to #SCOTUS would add "Christian" a lot to their arguments, they'd win their cases, since that's now the criterion.


A month after #SCOTUS over-ruled Trump’s tariffs, a new problem is just beginning.

Companies are now suing, selling their refund rights at steep discounts, and the government says it can't even process the $166 billion in rebates because the task is too big.
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What would this mean for Native Americans if he prevailed in the Supreme Court? I doubt he will win on this argument but with this Supreme Court, who knows?

#nativeamericans #immigrants #trumpadministration #SCOTUS

Looking to limit birthright citizenship, Trump turns to an 1884 Supreme Court ruling against a Native American man

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Last Monday's #SCOTUS summary reversal in Zorn "is a useful illustration of two distinct sets of problems: the problems with the Supreme Court deciding these cases at the cert. stage at all; and the problems with its qualified immunity jurisprudence more generally." Me in today's "One First":

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“The majority today,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent, “gives officers license to inflict gratuitous pain on a nonviolent protestor even where there is no threat to officer safety or any other reason to do so.” vtdigger.org/2026/03/25/us-sup… #SCOTUS #ACAB #Vermont


Went out for drinks tonight w/an ex, weather finally abiding (I don't eat/ drink indoors). And we're talking #politics (briefly) & the guy at the next table joins us & I said what I've said before, What makes you think the #Republicans will give up the #WhiteHouse when the #SupremeCourt says they don't have to?
Neither my ex nor our pal could answer - Well, our neighbor said that #Congress could pass "pointed #laws" to correct #SCOTUS but that's not how it works.
#OurPutin #AnotherOrban #NoKings


#SCOTUS Sides With #InternetProvider in #Copyright Fight Over #PiratedMusic

Leading #music labels sued Cox Communications for failing to terminate accounts of subscribers flagged for distributing copyrighted music.

The #SupremeCourt unanimously said on Wednesday that a major internet provider could not be held liable for the #piracy of thousands of songs online in a closely watched copyright clash.

#law #IntellectualProperty #business
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#SCOTUS indicated sympathy Tuesday toward the #Trump admin’s defense of the govt's authority to turn away #asylum seekers when ofcls deem #US - #Mexico #border crossings too ​overburdened.

The legal dispute centers on a policy called "#metering" that the Trump admin may seek to revive after it was dropped by Joe #Biden in 2021. The policy allowed US #immigration ofcls to stop asylum seekers at the border & indefinitely decline to process their claims.

#law
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#SCOTUS hears arguments over “late” [postmarked on time] arriving #mail [absentee] #ballots

The #US #SupremeCourt is hearing arguments over whether #states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots — an election [non]issue targeted by #Trump.

#law #ElectionLaw #access #equality #overseas #military #disabled #elderly #parents #students
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#PublicDefenders are chronically overworked in the US, as the government has never adequately funded them as required by law. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1963 the #SCOTUS ruled that states have a constitutional obligation to provide counsel to those who cannot afford hiring a lawyer.


“If #SCOTUS and its defenders want to persuade those who aren’t already onboard that the justices’ behavior in these cases is all fine and dandy, a good place to start would be responding to the critics directly and persuasively—rather than caricaturing their arguments and knocking down strawmen.”

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The Federal Reserve Board is composed of 7 members removable by #POTUS only for cause. #SCOTUS upheld the constitutionality of such independent agencies in Humphrey’s Executor v. US. But that case was undermined by the #SupremeCourt decision in Trump v. Wilcox to allow the removal of a member of the NLRB. Now, Trump has fired a member of the Federal Reserve Board. Will the Court uphold the Board’s independence in Trump v. Cook? #law #history #economics

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with the recent supreme court ruling on works created by llms being unable to be copyrighted...

#Copyright is for humans.

I ain't a lawyer. But that's an obvious problem for #vibecoding and #agenticai works.

An odd way to come at it for some, but there it is. From #SCOTUS.

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#SCOTUS #Transgender

From NPR.org: Advocates Fear Supreme Court Is ‘Going After the Transgender Community Deliberately’

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Via #DemocracyDocket - Mar 2, 2026

#BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨

In a setback for #VotingRights, the U.S. #SupremeCourt has halted #NewYork’s order to redraw its 11th Congressional District — a district a state court found diluted minority voting power.

The current map will remain as appeals continue.

#MinorityRights #SCOTUS

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so 3 courts + US Copyright Office say you cannot copyright nor patent anything made primarily with LLMs because automata aren't human.

#SCOTUS won't review these rules because copyright is meant to protect human creations, not software or automata.

this may mean #AWSlop #Microslop are “de-copyrighting” & “de-patenting” their own proprietary software as they let automata “code” 🧐

❝ AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
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