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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders return to the court after Collins

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

Under the Fifth Amendment, “private property” cannot be “taken for public use” by the government “without just compensation.” This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether the federal government’s decision to essentially nationalize the country’s largest federal backed mortgage-securities companies in the … Read the rest

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NJ Court Welcomes 7 Judges in Novel Ceremony

Seven experienced lawyers of diverse backgrounds were formally sworn in to serve on the federal bench in New Jersey, during a recent special group investiture ceremony.
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Louisiana inmate returns to the court after 18-year delay in resentencing

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

Anyone charged with a crime has the right to a “speedy … trial” under the Sixth Amendment. If convicted, do they also have the right to a speedy sentence? The court held four years ago in Betterman v. Montana that the Constitution bars excessive sentencing delays, but under the due … Read the rest

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Court will hear affirmative-action challenges separately, allowing Jackson to participate in UNC case

The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will consider two challenges to the role of race in college admissions separately, rather than – as it had originally planned – together. That news, which came in a brief order from the court, was not unexpected: It allows Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court’s newest justice, to participate in one of the cases, involving the consideration of race in the University of North Carolina’s undergraduate admissions process, while recusing herself … Read the rest

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Divided court declines to reinstate Biden’s immigration guidelines, sets case for argument this fall

The Supreme Court will again weigh the executive branch’s authority to set immigration policy as some red states claim that the Biden administration’s enforcement decisions are too lax. The justices on Thursday agreed to take up a challenge by Texas and Louisiana to a new federal policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation. The justices will hear the case in late November without waiting for a federal appeals court to weigh in.

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With Justice Breyer’s retirement, the court loses a pragmatist (and some laughs)

Justice Stephen Breyer retired on June 30 after 28 years on the court. This article is the final entry in a symposium on his jurisprudence.

Anastasia Boden is a senior attorney and Elizabeth Slattery is a senior legal fellow at Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit legal organization that defends Americans’ liberties when threatened by government overreach and abuse. They also host Dissed, a podcast about the Supreme Court.

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Think tank hosts debate on court reform ideas

Though you would be forgiven for forgetting the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court’s 294-page report published last December, it’s becoming harder to miss a wider conversation on the court’s ethics and transparency practices. On Tuesday, the R Street Institute, the free-market focused Washington think tank, held a lunch-time debate on court-reform proposals. Matt Germer, a resident elections fellow at R Street, was joined by Adam White of the American Enterprise Institute, journalist Sarah Isgur of The Dispatch, and … Read the rest

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End-of-term reviews for the 2021-22 Supreme Court term

We’ve compiled a list of events offering expert analysis on the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 term. All are free and available to the public.

University of California, Irvine School of Law’s 12th Annual Supreme Court Term in Review moderated by Michele Goodwin, with panelists Erwin Chemerinsky, Mary Franks, Regina Maphone, Mark Stern, and Mary Ziegler (July 6, 1 p.m. EDT)
American Judicature Society’s Supreme Court 2021-22 Term in Review presented by Tom Goldstein (July 6, 6 p.m. EDT)
Anti-Defamation League’s

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