Arkansas
New judge assigned to federal lawsuit challenging Arkansas LEARNS Act • Arkansas Advocate
U.S. District Judge Lee P. Rudofsky will replace a judge who recused herself from a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a section of the LEARNS Act that prohibits “indoctrination” in Arkansas schools. Chief U.S. District Judge Kristine G. Baker recused herself Tuesday, a day after the case was filed in the U.S. District Court […]
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Alabama
The Destruction of the Voting Rights Act | #elections | #alabama
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Google-News-Wire
- September 20, 2022
- abridgment of the right of any citizen
- Alabama’s challenge
- Alabama’s request
- American democracy
- Black majority
- chief justice
- Chief Justice John Roberts
- Chief Justice Warren Burger
- congressional district
- conservative supermajority
- Court’s conservative majority
- crowning achievement of the civil-rights era
- district court
- district court’s order
- environmental regulation
- federal district court
- Fifteenth Amendment
- final unraveling
- first line of his petition
- Fourteenth Amendment
- hands of a Supreme Court
- john roberts
- Justice Anthony Kennedy
- Justice Clarence Thomas
- Justice Potter Stewart
- justices’ audacious move
- language minority group
- large Black populations
- law firm
- lower court
- lower federal courts
- measure of racial equality
- new majority-Black
- ordinary case of statutory interpretation
- percent Black
- Racial discrimination
- Reagan Justice Department.The
- Roberts’s earliest Supreme Court opinions
- second day of the new term
- Section
- state
- state of alabama
- supreme court
- Trump years
- unfinished business
- vote dilution
- voting rights act
- white candidate
- young John Roberts
- young lawyer
The Supreme Court delivered appalling decisions in June—on abortion, guns, and environmental regulation—but the conservative supermajority is poised to strike an even greater blow against American democracy. The justices now have the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in their sights. On October 4, the second day of the new term, they will hear Alabama’s challenge […]
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