The Supreme Court took hard right turns in major First Amendment cases, but also sided with civil-rights plaintiffs and criminal defendants in lower-profile cases, and overrode lower courts to let Trump administration policies proceed.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a reargument in the redistricting case Louisiana v. Callais, leaving the future of Black political representation in the state hanging in the balance.
Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissent in the Supreme Court case Gutierrez v. Saenz argued that the Constitution does not require states to offer any postconviction relief, effectively closing the courthouse doors once a conviction is handed down.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. CASA, Inc. has significantly weakened judicial checks on presidential power, allowing President Trump’s contested executive order limiting birthright citizenship to begin taking effect in many parts of the country.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ruben Gutierrez, a man sentenced to death in Texas, can move forward with a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s DNA testing procedures.
Civil rights attorneys in California warn that five years after George Floyd’s murder, systemic police abuses persist and the public pressure for reform has since receded due to legal setbacks, institutional resistance, and a chilling of First Amendment rights.
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