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What's More Frightening Than Kari Lake? A Deepfake Kari Lake: When it comes to elections, it is becoming increasingly clear that the biggest new threat in 2024 ...
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What's More Frightening Than Kari Lake? A Deepfake Kari Lake
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Biden calls on Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act: In his State of the Union address Thursday evening, President Biden lambasted the rise in ...
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Biden calls on Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act
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Racial Turnout Gap Has Widened With a Weakened Voting Rights Act, Study Finds: The Black share of the electorate had been on the rise for decades ...
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Racial Turnout Gap Has Widened With a Weakened Voting Rights Act ...
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Alabama Supreme Court judge who concurred with controversial IVF ruling wins chief justice primary
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Our criminal injustice system harms us all | Opinion: "The degree of over-incarceration in America — and the corresponding societal harm — is a staggering ...
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Our criminal injustice system harms us all | Opinion
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Texas judicial races dominated by personal attacks, salacious claims: Attorney General Ken Paxton is getting involved in several Texas judicial races ...
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Texas judicial races dominated by personal attacks, salacious claims
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Since the 2020 election, state and local officials have faced a surge of threats. A new report published by the Brennan Center for Justice lays out how this ... Show more
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Trump: The Political Threats Will Stop … When You Agree With My Lies: Donald Trump warns there will be chaos if his criminal cases hurt his 2024 campaign ...
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Trump: The Political Threats Will Stop … When You Agree With My Lies
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Why Utah’s Supreme Court Chief Justice thinks judges should not be elected to the bench
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California, New York in danger of seeing House delegations shrink further: California and New York could see their House delegations shrink on the basis of ...
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California, New York in danger of seeing House delegations shrink further
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Abortion-rights debate to affect supreme court races in Pa., elsewhere: Crucial battles over abortion, gerrymandering, voting rights and other issues will take ...
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Abortion-rights debate to affect supreme court races in Pa., elsewhere
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Not just the Supreme Court: Ethics troubles plague state high courts, too: This story also appeared in USA TODAY Subscribe on Google | Apple ...
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Not just the Supreme Court: Ethics troubles plague state high courts, too
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Senate Passes $886 Billion Military Bill That Includes Mass Spying Extension: The measure now heads to the House, where the Congressional Progressive Caucus ...
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Opinion | We Waited 200 Years for This Supreme Court Ethics Code?: The Supreme Court’s new ethics code lacks any teeth and is full of language too fuzzy to hold ...
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Opinion | We Waited 200 Years for This Supreme Court Ethics Code?
Quick Glance: Supreme Court Implements Ethical Guidelines Without Enforcement
  • Implementation of first ethical guidelines without enforcement by the Supreme Court.

  • No significant new requirements; Compliance left entirely to each justice.

  • Justices emphasize long-standing adherence to ethics standards and dismiss ethics criticism as misunderstanding.

  • Recent support for ethical guidelines from three justices: Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Kagan.
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Appeals court decision could limit enforcement of Voting Rights Act: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that private ...
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Appeals court decision could limit enforcement of Voting Rights Act
Quick Glance: Court Decision Challenges Voting Rights Enforcement
  • The legal dispute focuses on who is allowed to enforce key provisions of the landmark civil rights law.

  • The judge ruled that only the head of the Justice Department can bring Section 2 lawsuits.

  • The dispute could be brought before the full 8th Circuit Court and ultimately to the Supreme Court.

  • The Arkansas State Conference NAACP and the Arkansas Public Policy Panel filed a Section 2 lawsuit, arguing that it dilutes the voting power of Black people.
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New worries over an old law have prompted calls for legislative change ahead of Trump's potential return to office trib.al/3GPNKUo
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Exposé of 'Scandalous' US Spying Sparks Calls for Congress to Act: "These new details add up to a horrifying picture that proves the need for Congress to.. ...
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Exposé of 'Scandalous' US Spying Sparks Calls for Congress to Act
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Second Amendment rights for abusers? Justices seem skeptical.: On Tuesday, a majority of Supreme Court justices appeared dubious that the U.S ...
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Second Amendment rights for abusers? Justices seem skeptical.
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Supporters of Government Surveillance Reform Act Aim to End 'Litany of Abuse': "For too long, federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies have had ...
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We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority
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Commentary: For many, court fees and fines put justice out of reach: Families often must decide whether or not to use money needed for food or rent or utilities ...
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Commentary: For many, court fees and fines put justice out of reach
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Why Thousands Of Prisoners Could Be Spared Because Of A Supreme Court Case Over The Word ‘And’
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America’s state supreme courts are looking less and less like America: The racial and ethnic makeup of state high court justices doesn't match the nation’s ...
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America’s state supreme courts are looking less and less like America
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Election workers are being bombarded with death threats, the U.S. government says
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Quick Glance: US Government Calls for Increased Protection as Election Workers Face Death Threats
  • Experts express concern over the potential for even worse threats in the 2024 election and urge the Justice Department to enhance the security of election workers.

  • Additional individuals are expected to plead guilty on Thursday for threatening election workers in Arizona and Georgia.

  • Threats against election workers come in waves, often triggered by social media posts from prominent figures or blog posts on far-right websites.

  • Liz Howard from the Brennan Center for Justice calls on the Justice Department to hire a senior adviser with established relationships with election officials to improve collaboration.
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Trump’s kid-glove treatment highlights an unequal justice system : Poor and minority defendants get far different treatment.
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Trump’s kid-glove treatment highlights an unequal justice system
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'What Authoritarianism Looks Like': Wisconsin GOP Threatens to Impeach Liberal Justice
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Editorial: Feds ignore Bill of Rights when its convenient: According to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, “federal law enforcement and intelligence ...
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Editorial: Feds ignore Bill of Rights when its convenient
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The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits: A new Brennan Center report outlines a solution to restore balance and accountability to our nation’s highest court: ...
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The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits
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US Spies Are Buying Americans' Private Data. Congress Has a Chance to Stop It: The National Defense Authorization Act now includes language that would forbid ...
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US Spies Are Buying Americans' Private Data. Congress Has a Chance to Stop ...
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In major win for voting rights, Supreme Court sides with Black Alabamians: In one of the biggest rulings of this term so far, the Supreme Court upheld a key ...
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In major win for voting rights, Supreme Court sides with Black Alabamians
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Trump Faces Difficult Odds In Classified Documents Case: Trump's greatest peril could lie in the conspiracy to obstruct justice charges, which carry a maximum ...
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Trump Faces Difficult Odds In Classified Documents Case
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The Supreme Court Confirms We Need to Protect Civil Rights | Opinion: he Supreme Court's decision, surprising as it is, shows that even the most conservative ...
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The Supreme Court Confirms We Need to Protect Civil Rights | Opinion
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At least 11 states have enacted restrictive voting laws this year, new report finds
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Why the Supreme Court's Alabama election map decision was surprising to many: Michael Waldman, president NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice, spoke to ABC News.
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The US Supreme Court Is Coming for Voting Rights—Again: A pending ruling on in Allen v. Milligan could be one of the most damaging yet by the supermajority of ...
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The US Supreme Court Is Coming for Voting Rights—Again
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How the SCOTUS 'Supermajority' is shaping policy on everything from abortion to guns
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Florida seeks to scuttle voter registration lawsuit: In a dispute rooted in a 2018 constitutional amendment designed to restore voting rights for convicted ...
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Florida seeks to scuttle voter registration lawsuit
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Clarence Thomas and his unreported gift vacations: The Supreme Court justice has found himself at the center of a sticky ethical dilemma
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Clarence Thomas and his unreported gift vacations
Quick Glance: A divided court leaves the constitutional question at Guantánamo Bay unresolved
  • The US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit concluded in a decision released Wednesday that the US may not be allowed to retain a guy imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay once he is no longer deemed a threat.

  • Guantánamo housed 684 inmates at its peak in 2003).

  • Any future appeals court decision on that subject could have ramifications for 16 additional inmates who remain at Guantánamo despite being approved for transfer.

  • In 2008, the United States Supreme Court declared 5-4, overturning another Randolph ruling, that Guantánamo detainees have the right to challenge their detention in federal court.
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“How to Blow Up a Pipeline” Movie Poses Terror Threat, Kansas City Intel Agency Claims
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“John Roberts Holds the Gavel but Clarence Thomas Holds the Power”: The Roberts Court is regressing in all the worst ways
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“John Roberts Holds the Gavel but Clarence Thomas Holds the Power”
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Tasked With Stopping Terror, Colorado’s Intel Agency Monitors Students Protesting Gun Violence
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Dan Kelly travels the state before Supreme Court election while Janet Protasiewicz is grounded by illness
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Quick Glance: The Supreme Court will not enforce a West Virginia law prohibiting transgender athletes from participating on girls' sports teams.
  • According to the ACLU, 19 states have passed laws similar to West Virginia's in the last three years.

  • However, no appeals court has yet to rule on the issue.

  • Becky and her mother were represented by the ACLU, Lambda Legal, and private lawyers who appealed the ruling and won a preliminary order from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that prevents the law from being enforced while the appellate court considers her case.

  • The appeals court's temporary order prompted West Virginia's attorney general to petition the Supreme Court for emergency relief.
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In Wisconsin, Liberals Barrage Conservative Supreme Court Candidate With Attack Ads
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In Wisconsin, Liberals Barrage Conservative Supreme Court Candidate With ...
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Business group pulls pro-Kelly Supreme Court ads featuring a rape victim's case: The victim at the center of the rape case depicted in the ads said the ...
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COINTELPRO 2.0: How the FBI Infiltrated BLM Protests After Police Murder of George Floyd
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Former FBI agent Michael German joins Washington Post Live to discuss rising concerns about white supremacists targeting electric infrastructure and what he ... Show more

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The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver’s Racial Justice Movement: Mickey Windecker encouraged violence, accused activist leaders of being police ...
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The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver’s Racial Justice ...
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How financial barriers stifle formerly incarcerated people: PHILADELPHIA — In the second year of J. Jondhi Harrell’s 20-year sentence, he began to contemplate ...
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How financial barriers stifle formerly incarcerated people
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MLK Jr.’s dream not yet achieved, but still attainable, advocates say: Sixty years after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech ...
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MLK Jr.’s dream not yet achieved, but still attainable, advocates say
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2023’s Biggest, Most Unusual Race Centers on Abortion and Democracy: The election for a swing seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has huge policy stakes for the ...
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2023’s Biggest, Most Unusual Race Centers on Abortion and Democracy
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Trump probes draw more notice. But Garland has boosted focus on civil rights.: President Biden's attorney general has significantly expanded the Justice ...
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Trump probes draw more notice. But Garland has boosted focus on civil ...
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New Illinois Supreme Court justices got major boost from hidden spending by Democratic group
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Oklahoma has tried to lower its incarceration rate. But many obstacles face the newly released
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Kathy Adams: Utah not the only state where lawmakers are out to weaken the judiciary
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Kathy Adams: Utah not the only state where lawmakers are out to weaken the ...
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"It starts with fixing the Electoral Count Act. Trump's loony reading of the creaky and outdated 19th-century law provided the foundation for his ...
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There is a path to save the Supreme Court from itself: There’s never been a better time to advance court reforms to the public.
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There is a path to save the Supreme Court from itself
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Abortion Rights Were Decimated Across The US In 2022, But These People Showed The Fight For Access Isn’t Over
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Supreme Court to consider fundamental change in elections authority: With the country deeply divided over whether to trust elections, North Carolina says the U.S ...
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Supreme Court to consider fundamental change in elections authority
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Ex-Conservative Reverend Testifies That Samuel Alito Leaked Outcome Of 2014 Decision
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Civil rights groups question Biden’s counterterrorism strategy: Civil rights advocates say the government is trying to combat domestic extremism and white ...
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Civil rights groups question Biden’s counterterrorism strategy
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Opinion | Midterm Voters Decisively Rejected Election Deniers: Is a durable majority for safe and secure elections emerging?
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Opinion | Midterm Voters Decisively Rejected Election Deniers
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A GOP-dominated NC Supreme Court reflects a national push to politicize state courts | Opinion
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How GOP state supreme court wins could change state policies and who runs Congress
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How GOP state supreme court wins could change state policies and who runs ...