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Facing a conservative turn, Supreme Court opens new term

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Fourteenth Amendment

U.S. Supreme Court decision in Slaughterhouse cases began process of diluting the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court said the Fourteenth Amendment protected federal civil rights, not Civil rights heretofore belonging exclusively to the states.

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Apr

14

1873

Gay Rights Victory

In Bostock v. Clayton County, the United States Supreme Court ruled, this

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Judge Deals Setback to Key Trump Policy Limiting Asylum - Black News Channel

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press/ BNC Contributor SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge has knocked down a cornerstone border policy of the Trump administration that denies asylum to people who travel through other countries to reach the U.S.-Mexico border without first seeking protection in those

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AMHVoices: Bad leadership, greed tearing opposition apart

IT comes as no surprise that police have barred the gathering that had been planned to elect a replacement for the late MDC founding president Morgan Tsvangirai. By Kennedy Kaitano I have been advising the Thokozani Khupe-led faction that it should plan to hold the elections in a manner that

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Court: Some Employers Can Refuse to Offer Free Birth Control

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled broadly Wednesday in favor of the religious rights of employers in two cases that could leave more than 70,000 women without free contraception and tens of thousands of people with no way to sue for job discrimination. In both cases the court ruled

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Supreme Court Decision Jeopardizes CFPB’s Future and its Independence - Houston Forward Times

A June 29 U.S. Supreme Court split decision represents a major setback to both the… The post Supreme Court Decision Jeopardizes CFPB’s Future and its Independence appeared first on Houston Forward Times.

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was the seminal post-Reconstruction Supreme Court decision that judicially validated state sponsored segregation in public facilities by its creation and endorsement of the “separate but equal” doctrine as satisfying the Constitutional requirements provided in

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Court: Governor exceeded authority in the appointment of first Jamaican American judge

MIAMI, United States (CMC) - The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that the state's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, exceeded his authority when he appointed the first Jamaican American judge on the Florida Supreme Court.In May, DeSantis appointed Justice Renatha Francis to fill the vacancy of

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‘I won’t cut her hair!’ - Parents of dreadlocked girl incensed at ‘systemic racism’ after court ruling

Sherine Virgo said she will not cut her seven-year-old daughter’s hair despite yesterday’s court ruling that Kensington Primary School did not breach her child’s constitutional rights when it denied her access in 2018 for having dreadlocks. “I will...

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Sudan to pay for ’98 embassy attacks – US court

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Sudan must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in punitive damages to some victims of the 1998 attacks on US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam in

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Loving v. Virginia (1967)

WARREN, C.J., Opinion of the Court

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Malawi: From ACB Statements - How Malawi Judges Rejected K100m to Deliver Electoral Justice

In his statement, Justice Potani speaks of how Mpinganjira "desperately hunted for him for a meeting" which, he said, he dodged

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Supreme Court ordered school integration "with all

Supreme Court ordered school integration with all deliberate speed.

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May

31

1955

NDZ: 'Cigarette ban strictly necessary to protect the public'

NDZ has said in an affidavit submitted to the SCA that just because cigarettes are addictive doesn't mean that they're an essential product.

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Who Will Be The Next Supreme Court Nominee? Another Issue Black Voters Must Stay On Top Of

Here’s a reminder: Since the Supreme Court was formed in 1789, it has significantly altered American lives, particularly Black lives, with its decisions on important topics such as segregation and voting

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Amid the Outpouring for Ginsburg, a Hint of Backlash

… credited as co-authors the African-American legal scholar Pauli Murray and … , who was not only an African-American jurist, and largely forgotten until …

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Thurgood Marshall announces retirement

US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, citing illness, announces his retirement from the nations highest court after 24 years of service.

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Jun

28

1991

Sudan Does an About-Turn in U.S. Relations

Sudan's transitional government and the United States (US) are poised to reach an agreement for Khartoum to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to victims of a 1998 al-Qaeda

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COMMENTARY: George Floyd and the Continuing Legacy of Dred Scott

These next words, though, memorialized for all time in the High Court decision, put flesh on the bones of the pro-slavery argument: “[Blacks] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or

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John S. Rock, lawyer and dentist died on this day. He became the first Black to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1865.

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Dec

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1866

Byron R. White , in full Byron Raymond White (born June 8, 1917, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.—died April 15, 2002, Denver), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court

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Apr

15

2002

First Thing: US has three months to prepare for second Covid-19 wave, say scientists

A group of nine leading scientists who advised President Barack Obama has warned that the US has just three months to rebuild its stockpile of emergency medical equipment if it wants to be prepared for a second wave of coronavirus in the

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Ruling fuels call for state LGBTQ protections – Florida Courier

BY DARA KAM NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE – LGBTQ advocates are hailing Monday’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that gay, lesbian and transgender workers are covered by federal anti discrimination laws, but they say Florida needs to do more. The court’s 6-3 opinion, authored by Justice

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Wheatley, Integrity Commission head to court over report

Former Energy Minister Dr Andrew Wheatley has taken court action challenging a “dishonest” characterisation against him in an Integrity Commission report on allegations of corruption at the state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam. One of Wheatley’s...

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COMMENTARY: Adding Fuel to the Fire of Our Pandemics | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Forty-five fanned the flames of fear and uncertainty about COVID-19 with false comments about the virus. First, he said it was going to go away, and that it was no more severe than the flu. Then he suggested a drug, hydroxychloroquine, that has proven to be ineffective. Then he

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A Deep Look Into Daniel Cameron’s Past Shows Significant GOP Ties

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron may not be known to many outside of the Breonna Taylor case, but a look into Cameron’s past shows significant GOP ties. Cameron, a Black…

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Supreme Court says Trump can weaken Obamacare contraceptive mandate - L.A. Focus Newspaper

The 7-2 ruling reverses a lower court decision that had blocked Trump's move nationwide. The ruling is a win for President Donald Trump, who has vowed to act aggressively to protect what he and other conservatives frame as religious liberty, as well as for the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Roman

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#Election2020 – U.S. Rep. Doug Collins slams Ruth Bader Ginsburg on abortion after her death | The Atlanta Voice

Shortly after the news of the passing of United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made waves, U.S. Representative Doug Collins blasted Ginsburg on her support for abortion rights. “RIP to the more than 30 million innocent babies that have been murdered during the decades that Ruth

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87 - TSDMemphis.com

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the champion for women’s rights, died on Friday evening from “complications of metastatic pancreas cancer,” according to a statement from the Supreme Court of the United States. Known to many as “the Notorious RBG,” Ginsburg, 87, served more than 27 years on America’s highest

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A June 29 U.S. Supreme Court split decision represents a major setback to both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the consumers who have come to rely upon the agency. Since 2010, more than 25 million consumers were helped by the agency’s efforts that returned over $11

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