Judiciary.org - Part 23

Trump asks court to allow firing of watchdog agency official

The Trump administration on Sunday asked the Supreme Court to block an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that would require the president to temporarily reinstate the head of an independent agency tasked with protecting federal employees, and in particular whistleblowers, from retaliation. The order by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris told the justices, was an “unprecedented assault on the separation of powers that warrants immediate relief.”

Sunday’s filing was the … Read the rest

Supreme Court

The morning read for Friday, Feb. 14

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:

Texas Judge Fines New York Doctor and Orders Her to Stop Sending Abortion Pills to Texas (Pam Belluck & Mary Beth Gahan, The New York Times)
What Marbury v. Madison means for the Supreme Court — and America (Mark Sherman, The Associated Press)
Will the Supreme Court Preserve the Rule of Law? Chief Justice Roberts May Have

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Circuit Courts

New Tool Helps Public Find Local Court Civics Resources and Programs

Federal courts regularly engage in public outreach and civics education efforts. A new interactive civics map is helping the public more easily find court educational resources and civics program information nationwide.
Judiciary News – United States Courts… Read the rest

Civil Law

Firing of thousands of health agency employees will undermine food safety

— OPINION —

The cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services today make a mockery of the “Make America Healthy Again” slogan by arbitrarily decimating new staff in key public health agencies who might actually implement the slogan.

The firings impact staff across HHS and affect thousands of people on “probationary” status.

The mass firings will undermine the work of two of the agencies that solve and prevent foodborne outbreaks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the … Read the rest

Supreme Court

Supreme Court to consider death row plea for DNA testing

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him. Ruben Gutierrez was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville, Tex. Gutierrez has maintained his innocence and says DNA from several pieces of evidence — such as a hair and nail scrapings from Harrison’s finger and … Read the rest

Civil Law

Committee hears about issues with meat inspections at UK border

Politicians have called for funding to be maintained for meat inspections after hearing evidence on the scale of products being seized at the border.

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee examined biosecurity measures for animal and plant imports to the UK. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is responsible for product of animal origin imports.

The committee has written to Sue Hayman, Defra Minister for biosecurity and borders, to request a timeline of the agency’s response to … Read the rest

Supreme Court

The morning read for Tuesday, Feb. 11

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

Trump, Vance and Musk take aim at the courts as judges halt some of 2nd term agenda (Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News)
State v. state battles over abortion laws are coming to a head – and likely will end up at the Supreme Court (Tierney Sneed, CNN)
SCOTUS case involving St. Isidore, state charter school board will be

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Supreme Court

Missouri man appeals death sentence after attorneys failed to press jury foreman’s bias

The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

People held in state prison can turn to federal court to challenge the validity of their conviction or sentence. But they face a high bar in doing so: They have to convince a federal trial judge that their state conviction or sentence was “unreasonable,” and if they fail in that … Read the rest

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