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As New Term Starts, Supreme Court Poised to Resume Rightward Push
Chief Justice Roberts, whose middle-ground method within the abortion resolution attracted not a single colleague’s vote, stated the court docket’s position within the constitutional construction should be revered.
“If the court docket doesn’t retain its legit operate of deciphering the Structure, I’m unsure who would take up that mantle,” he stated. “You don’t need the political branches telling you what the regulation is, and also you don’t need public opinion to be the information of what the suitable resolution is.”
David A. Strauss, a regulation professor on the College of Chicago, stated the chief justice’s failed effort to dealer a compromise within the abortion case offered him with a chance.
“The response to Dobbs would give the chief justice an opportunity to inform his conservative colleagues ‘I instructed you so’ — once you go too far, too quick, individuals will see the court docket as nothing greater than the judicial wing of the conservative political motion,” Professor Strauss stated. “However I doubt his colleagues would pay attention.”
Justice Elena Kagan, a part of the court docket’s three-member liberal wing, spoke continuously over the summer season, if usually phrases, about methods courts can undermine their very own authority.
That would occur, she stated in New York in September, when it appears as if judges are “an extension of the political course of or once they’re imposing their very own private preferences,” including that the general public has a proper to anticipate “that modifications in personnel don’t ship all the authorized system up for grabs.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one other liberal, has echoed the purpose.
The court docket has near-total energy to determine which circumstances it’ll hear, and it usually makes use of that discretion to resolve disputes amongst decrease courts. The court docket agreed to listen to lots of the main circumstances within the coming time period regardless of an absence of such conflicts, a sign that the brand new majority is pursuing an agenda and setting the tempo of change.
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Video: Hundreds of Harvard Students Walk Out at Commencement
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Hundreds of Harvard Students Walk Out at Commencement
The students were protesting Harvard University’s decision to bar 13 seniors from the ceremony in the wake of campus demonstrations over the war in Gaza.
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Crowd: “Let them walk. Let them walk, let them walk.”
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Video: Protesters Scuffle With Police During Pomona College Commencement
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Protesters Scuffle With Police During Pomona College Commencement
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators tried to block access to Pomona College’s graduation ceremony on Sunday.
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[chanting in call and response] Not another nickel, not another dime. No more money for Israel’s crime. Resistance is justified when people are occupied.
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Video: Police Use Pepper Spray on Protesters on G.W.U.’s Campus
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Police Use Pepper Spray on Protesters on G.W.U.’s Campus
Police officers arrested 33 pro-Palestinian protesters and cleared a tent encampment on the campus of George Washingon University.
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“The Metropolitan Police Department. If you are currently on George Washington University property, you are in violation of D.C. Code 22-3302, unlawful entry on property.” “Back up, dude, back up. You’re going to get locked up tonight — back up.” “Free, free Palestine.” “What the [expletive] are you doing?” [expletives] “I can’t stop — [expletives].”
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