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Debra Johnson @debj11.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"A unanimous federal appeals court ruled Monday that a jury should decide whether Seattle's DEI initiatives created a racially hostile work environment for a White employee, while emphasizing that federal anti-discrimination law protects workers regardless of race." www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

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Obama-appointed judge clears way for White employee to challenge Seattle's DEI policies

Joshua Diemert's racial hostile work environment lawsuit against Seattle's DEI programs heads to trial after a unanimous appeals court ruling.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

oh shit! since Tennessee's governor denied clemency two days ago, and the Supreme Court denied a stay of execution yesterday, I definitely assumed Tennessee would execute Christa Pike today but the execution has apparently been paused TBD if 'paused' becomes 'called off'

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tuesday presented a split-screen picture of a Trump admin seeking ever more extreme uses of executive power w/ barely any pushback from SCOTUS contrasted w/ a Trump admin losing power and facing accountability from increasingly aggressive appeals courts supporting the district courts. Law Dork:

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SCOTUS allows quick third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness

A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was before I was at Reuters but amid the fallout out of the Obamacare ruling when some media initially got it wrong and SCOTUSblog got a lot of credit, what got lost was that all the wires had published the correct news immediately.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(Although when at Reuters I certainly benefited from sitting next to Lyle for several years when the headlines were flying)

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Quick fact-check: SCOTUSblog actually never was quickest on big Supreme Court news as the news wires (AP, Bloomberg, Reuters) would always be first with headlines and full stories soon thereafter.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have been wondering about this for a slightly different reason which is that a lot has changed on the ground since 2024 including the SCOTUS ruling on trans sports and rule changes by sports orgs. These developments somewhat defang Republican talking points on that issue.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

anyway basically everyone except Ken Paxton hates how the Supreme Court has allowed big money to distort democracy--and states are trying to do something about it! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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How States Are Pushing Back Against the Supreme Court’s Citizens United Decision

As it turns out, normal people do not like political corruption as much as the conservative legal movement does.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ICYMI: The band is back together to preview the upcoming SCOTUS term! I also talked with Mahmoud Khalil about his new book, out today: NO LAND TO STAND ON - Notes From Detention Get it from our friends at bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/no-l...

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No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention

A revelatory and powerful testament of protest, courage, and imprisonment in America’s deportation regime“Are you Mahmoud Khalil?” The question marked the start of a politically charged odyssey that t...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#ELB: Jay Willis Pens Must-Read Piece on the Sad Demise of SCOTUSBlog (Gift link) electionlawblog.org/2026/jay-willis…

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

"SCOTUSblog’s small army of new contributors includes Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabresi, for example, and Brian Fitzpatrick, a former Scalia clerk whose column promises to “recreate lunch with Justice Scalia one blog post at a time.”" just lost my appetite all of a sudden

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New episode of Sidebar out this morning previewing several big cases heading into the opening of a new SCOTUS term next week: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Big Oil, AR-15s, and The Right to Vote Hit SCOTUS

Podcast Episode · Sidebar by Courthouse News · September 29 · 39m

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's really striking. And of course it's directed at Justice Jackson...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#ELB: “A California sheriff seized ballots. The court ruling shutting the probe will resonate nationwide” electionlawblog.org/2026/a-californ…

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's a day that ends in 'y' so there's a new Trump emergency application filed at the Supreme Court, this time seeking to enforce the administration's policy that restricts gender-affirming care for transgender inmates.

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Debra Johnson @debj11.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The inherent conflict in forming a country based on principles of liberty and freedom, while remaining fully steeped in the buying, selling, and labor exploitation of millions of Black people, was not lost on this country’s constitutional drafters." sherrilyn.substack.com/p/our-consti...

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Our Constitution Is Not Colorblind

It may be that the most consequential sentence of the Supreme Court’s latest decision in Allen v.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

there are a lot of interesting Supreme Court races that deserve more attention! boltsmag.org/your-state-b...

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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This week with @jameeljaffer.bsky.social of the Knight First Amendment Institute on Schrodinger's Press Ban. Whether it's on or off isn't the point: The point is that press freedom erodes in a single direction.

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Everybody Out of the Pool | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

Trump banned three news outlets from the White House, then something unprecedented happened.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

attacking your country on foreign territory

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump and Republicans are terrified of policies that curb their own wealth and power, and the wealth and power of the oligarchs that bankroll them. That's why they're amping up the fearmongering about "socialism."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026

THIS SHOULD BE NATIONAL NEWS This has been public for more than a week, and I can’t find a single national TV report. Just local. Why? REPORT: A female Cornell student alleges she was pressured into taking ketamine, then sexually assaulted for hours by multiple Chi Phi fraternity members in 2024.

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A Moveable Feed @amoveablefeed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

El Niño is predictable on seasonal timescales. The background warming is well documented. So why does the response cycle keep going: alarm, partial action, amnesia, repeat? Read the issue

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But, as I wrote in my newsletter, these 8th circuit judges should actually be impeached. We simply can’t have “a judicial system” if Republican judges are going to literally defy the *Republican* Supreme Court just to try to give the GOP one more House seat.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was about half a day off in my prediction of when SCOTUS would smack down the 8th circuit Missouri thing. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BREAKING: SCOTUS keeps the Missouri 2022 congressional map in effect for this election in an order that criticizes the Eighth Circuit's actions in the case. The five page, per curiam — unsigned order — came with no noted dissents. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

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Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack

The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great write-up of a rare unanimous benchslap from SCOTUS

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Truthout @truthout.org · 25/09/2026

Over 100 protesters were arrested near the UN ahead of Netanyahu’s speech to the General Assembly. Susan Sarandon, Elliot Page, Hannah Einbinder, Cynthia Nixon and other prominent figures attended the protest.

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Over 100 Protesters Arrested at Peaceful Sit-In Ahead of Netanyahu’s UN Speech

At least 104 people were arrested, including nine elected officials as well as congressional and other candidates.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kate has good details here about the corrupt Court's latest outrageous decision. But also what it does and what it doesn't. states can only use this in a pretty limited way for the next 90 days. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

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Supreme Court Lets Trump Use Beefed-Up Citizenship Verification System That Could Hurt Eligible Voters

The Supreme Court on Friday let the Trump administration use its newly-expanded...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government: