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City Council

Rapid City Council eyes water utility rate hike | #citycouncil

The Rapid City Common Council delayed voting on two resolutions that could possibly raise water utility prices to give residents more time to review its content. The proposals, which would amend rates for water and water reclamation utilities, was a big discussion piece at the most recent city council meeting. Eddie Lopez is the project […]

Alabama

Why Kavanaugh and Roberts are up against the lower courts on voting rights. | #elections | #alabama

Last June, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh saved the Voting Rights Act in a surprise 5–4 decision. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Allen v. Milligan invalidated Alabama’s egregious racial gerrymander, affirming nonwhite Americans’ equal voting power, and overall, upheld the federal ban on racial discrimination in the electoral process. It should have […]

Alabama

Alabama Is Defying the Supreme Court on Voting Rights | #elections | #alabama

Supreme Court rulings are meant to be the law of the land, but Alabama is taking its recent opinion on the Voting Rights Act as a mere recommendation. In an echo of mid-century southern defiance of school desegregation, the Yellowhammer State’s Republican-controlled legislature defied the conservative-dominated Court’s directive to redraw its congressional map with an […]

Alabama

How John Roberts exhibited his power in the Supreme Court’s biggest decisions | #elections | #alabama

The Supreme Court is still the John Roberts court, a fact underscored by the chief justice’s influence on the biggest cases of the most recent term. Roberts at times allowed the court’s 6-3 conservative majority to flex its muscle in gutting affirmative action, blocking student debt relief and allowing a website designer to refuse to […]

Alabama

Ruling in Alabama case could boost suits increasing Black voters’ power in other states | National | #elections | #alabama

But that dramatically understates the impact of the case, titled Allen v. Milligan, election law experts say. Though it simply reaffirms existing law, the ruling — authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, who was joined by Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, and, in part, by Justice Brett Kavanaugh — is likely […]

Alabama

The Destruction of the Voting Rights Act | #elections | #alabama

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 […]

Alaska

Religion, injunctions, affirmative consent: Court conference tackles heavy political subjects | Courts | #alaska | #politics

Federal judges and lawyers heard about the cascade of recent developments in legal interpretation during a three-day conference in Colorado Springs, with a heavy focus on the U.S. Supreme Court’s sharp turn toward more conservative outcomes on major cultural issues. Attendees at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit’s Bench & Bar Conference […]