tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57391255026801070972024-03-08T16:15:38.674-05:00Jost on JusticeLaw & Justice Blog<b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.comBlogger678125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-60352968858710509082022-11-06T12:45:00.000-05:002022-11-06T12:45:03.735-05:00On Affirmative Action, Precedents Be Damned For the
past twenty years, U.S. colleges and universities have relied on a Supreme
Court decision that allows admissions committees to consider an applicant’s
race in seeking to further the universities’ compelling interest in racial diversity
on their campuses. The Supreme Court <b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-84122028851727762912022-09-10T19:17:00.000-04:002022-09-10T19:17:41.572-04:00Justices Poised Again to Upset Precedent With the
Supreme Court’s new term set to open in three weeks, the Republican-packed
bench may be on the verge of overruling another important precedent just as the
justices did last year in overruling the landmark abortion rights decision, Roe
v. Wade.
The Court gets its first clear <b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-569524283531062602022-08-12T17:35:00.000-04:002022-08-12T17:35:18.692-04:00Will Republican Court Shred Voting Rights Act Again?<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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<b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-71315335352037202272022-07-03T16:24:00.002-04:002022-07-04T08:54:49.202-04:00At #SCOTUS, Headlong Rush to Change the Law Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer was
unaccustomedly emotional sixteen years ago as Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
led a newly polarized Court in limiting the ability of local school districts
to engineer a measure of racial balance in public schools. Roberts wrote and
led five Republican-appointed justices in holding in <b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-76928028074694389692022-06-25T14:00:00.000-04:002022-06-25T14:00:48.404-04:00At SCOTUS, Onward Christian Soldiers! The
Supreme Court delivered a major victory to religious schools last week [June
21] by forcing the state of Maine to provide tuition assistance to families who
want to send their children to private schools that practice religious
indoctrination through an explicitly religious curriculum.
&<b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-66527166516804174092022-06-20T12:12:00.004-04:002022-06-20T12:12:57.503-04:00In Immigration Cases, Justice Denied, Delayed The Republican-majority Supreme
Court displayed its anti-immigrant bias last week in two separate decisions on
the same day that operate to block noncitizens detained in ICE custody from
seeking bond hearings for possible release while they seek relief from removal
orders and to block noncitizens from seeking classwide relief to enforce<b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-54489136773509501932022-06-12T13:32:00.002-04:002022-06-12T13:32:28.038-04:00SCOTUS: Damn the Precedents, Full Speed Ahead<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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<b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-67620158824183965362022-06-05T17:04:00.001-04:002022-06-05T17:04:50.761-04:00Gun Safety Reforms Could Save Lives President Biden spoke for most Americans last week
[June 2] when he pleaded with Congress to pass a short list of specific gun
safety proposals to try to prevent mass shootings and to limit the number of deaths
from any such episodes. Predictably, however, Biden’s plea fell on deaf ears as
Republicans in Congress and gun rights advocacy groups warned that he was tampering
with the <b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-75135162036655418502022-05-30T09:09:00.002-04:002022-05-30T09:09:47.480-04:00Thomas's Affront to Sixth Amendment <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Court justices gathered in the Great Hall on Monday (May 2) to join in a
memorial service for the late justice John Paul Stevens, who graced the Supreme
Court bench for thirty-five years with unfailing courtesy and judicious
moderation until his retirement in 2010.
&<b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-23837250404104323312022-05-01T11:25:00.000-04:002022-05-01T11:25:07.663-04:00Time for Equal Rights for Puerto Rico? Jose
Vaello-Madero, who was born and grew up in Puerto Rico, lived in New York City
from 1985 to 2013 and during that time benefited from one of the federal government’s
“safety net” programs: the Social Security Administration’s Supplemental
Security Income (SSI) benefits, available to low-income individuals with disabilities.
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major disappointment in its effort to insinuate <b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-40084948676439258822022-04-09T14:05:00.000-04:002022-04-09T14:05:18.267-04:00Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings Serve a Purpose <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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participation in and support for the attempted coup to overturn the results of
the 2020 presidential election have created an ethics issue for the Supreme
Court unique in the Court’s 225-year history. Ginni Thomas has been a prominent
conservative activist for years even while her husband has hewed to
conservative positions as a justice on the <b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-22490383986052260642022-03-27T12:26:00.000-04:002022-03-27T12:26:03.868-04:00GOP's "Demagoguery" on Jackson's Record When
the Senate Judiciary Committee opened the historic hearing on the first-ever
black woman nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court [March 21], Republican
senators, one after another, all promised respectful consideration of her
qualifications. In turn, they appeared to promise to avoid any underhanded
partisan attacks of the sort <b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-80825708275814707722022-03-20T08:12:00.000-04:002022-03-20T08:12:54.532-04:00The Times' Clumsy Blow for Free Speech <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Supreme Court justice, and his full-time political activist wife Virginia
Thomas are Washington’s power couple du jour. The New York Times lifted them to
full-fledged celebrity status by using a flattering photograph of the couple as
the cover of the Sunday magazine last month [<b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-30667518711746745762022-03-05T16:01:00.001-05:002022-03-05T16:01:41.688-05:00Republicans Want Courts Out of Election Cases When the
Supreme Court closed federal courthouse doors to partisan gerrymandering cases three
years ago, Chief Justice Roberts stressed in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019)
that states still had the authority to devise remedies for politically
motivated districting plans. Now, however, Republicans in two states, North
Carolina and Pennsylvania, are <b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-46319732505733133642022-02-24T13:04:00.001-05:002022-02-24T13:04:26.213-05:00The People versus Donald J. Trump The law
moved slightly closer last week to holding the former president, Donald J.
Trump, accountable for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol
by a mob of Trump supporters. Trump had urged his supporters to assemble in
Washington and then to march on the Capitol as Congress was about to certify
Joe Biden’s election as president<b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-48020557854544670332022-02-19T16:51:00.000-05:002022-02-19T16:51:33.256-05:00Trump Judge's Ruling Could Decimate Voting Rights Act Another of
President Trump’s federal judges took another bite out of the federal Voting
Rights Act last week [Feb. 17] with a devastating ruling in a minority vote
dilution challenge to legislative redistricting in Arkansas. The ruling, if eventually
affirmed by the Supreme Court, would cripple enforcement of the law by holding
that private <b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-6858671528409855362022-02-11T13:38:00.000-05:002022-02-11T13:38:29.462-05:00'Conservative' Justices Rewriting Voting Rights Act The Supreme
Court’s conservative majority took another bite out of the federal Voting
Rights Act last week [Feb. 7] when it cleared the way for the state of Alabama
to put into effect a congressional redistricting plan that a lower federal
court found to consist of racial gerrymanders that improperly diluted the
influence of minority voters.
<b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739125502680107097.post-2476186321154150212022-01-30T20:48:00.000-05:002022-01-30T20:48:20.647-05:00Breyer to Retire as Court Is Set for Dramatic Changes The Supreme Court ended its 2006 term with a bitterly
divided, 5-4 decision that limited school districts’ ability to design pupil
assignment systems in a way to break down de facto racial segregation and engineer
some measure of racial diversity in individual schools. Justice Stephen Breyer
led the four liberal justices in dissenting<b>Kenneth Jost</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08130278447396616546noreply@blogger.com0