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Even though attending the Supreme Court's 9-0 decision, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Donald Trump appointee, said it was "not time to amplify differences" and urged turning the "temperature down." She argued the majority went too far, and that she would have released a narrower opinion, and that the court should not have ruled on the 'complex' question whether new laws by Congress are the 'exclusive vehicle' to deal with enforcement concerns. In the 14th Amendment, her words related to the 'insurrection' clause. The ruling's scope was also challenged by the court's three liberal justices.

Following a string of troubling reports about her coworkers who have received lavish gifts, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said Monday that she intends the high court to establish a formal code of conduct. Her comments at a University of Minnesota Law School event follows reports Thomas and other justices accepted lavish trips

Republicans are celebrating a return to'merit-based' education admissions, while Democrats claim that the Supreme Court's decision to reverse affirmative action will put the clock back on racial justice. The verdict on his Truth Social page, former President Trump, who voted three conservative justices, railed.'This is a great day for America,' he wrote. People with extraordinary capabilities and everything else that are crucial to our country's success, including future greatness, are now being rewarded.' This was the hearing everyone was waiting and awaited for, and the result was jaw-breaking. It will also keep us competitive with the rest of the world.

The Supreme Court has suspended the use of ethnicity as a factor in college admissions. The justices ruled in a 6-3 decision on Thursday that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina's race-based affirmative action admissions are unconstitutional. Both programs lack sufficiently targeted and measurable goals to support the use of race, unavoidably use race in a negative manner, require racial stereotyping, and lack common end points,' according to Chief Justice Roberts' majority opinion.

A Tennessee mother was forced to fly to New York for an abortion after an ultrasound revealed that her unborn daughter had a rare brain abnormality that meant she would not survive outside the womb has slammed lawmakers for "causing mass panic among Americans." The Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade last year, effectively ending the constitutional right to an abortion, and in the process, thousands of women have been left homeless. In a handful of other states, the historic decision, which had an unprecedented six-vote majority, has banned 14 states almost entirely from performing the procedure, and gestational limits have been enforced in a handful of others.

The Supreme Court preserved the law that gives priority to Native American families in foster care and adoption cases of Native children on Thursday, rejecting a broad reaction from Republican-led states and white families who believed it was based on ethnicity. The 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, which was introduced to address complaints that Native children were missing from their families and, more often, put in non-Native homes, has been left in place. Tribal chiefs have endorsed the legislation as a way to safeguard their families', traditions, and cultures.

Judges found that the Environmental Protection Agency had wrongfully delivered a diktat to an Idaho couple, requiring them to halt the construction of their dream lakeside home. The EPA pen-pushers told Michael and Chantell Sackett that their house, which is just 300 feet from Priest Lake, could not be constructed on what they called protected wetlands. If they ignored their orders, they threatened to fines of more than $40,000 a day for any violations of US federal environmental law.

Consumers Research claims that the firm retaliated after receiving backlash from Bud Light's signing of trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney to endorse the brand. On Friday, the Washington, D.C.-based group, headed by Executive Director Will Hild, unveiled the new plan. It will be possible for consumers to be sent text updates from companies that Consumers Research claims have gone too far to the left in their advertisements. Anyone can sign up for the alerts by entering a phone number on the website, with Jack Daniels, Bud Light, Blackrock, and Silicon Valley Bank all being vulnerable. According to the website, "Many businesses are putting social activists and their dangerous agendas in front of clients." They'll only succeed if we go the other way.' Following their Dylan Mulvaney campaign, they targeted Bud Light, which culminated in her appearance on cans with her face on, something the firm said was not for PR alone.

On Tuesday, Asra Nomani told Congress how she had been targeted by awakened activists after raising questions about books that promote critical race theory. Nomani, a girl who was born in India and immigrated to the United States as a child, has been described as the 'face of white supremacy.' Teachers should be focusing on math and reading rather than marketing the 'divisive' ideology,' she told the House Oversight Committee. Her testimony came during congressional hearings on white supremacy, which some believe has resulted in a rise in violence against LGBT Americans.

Jessie Pocock testified before Congress on Wednesday that she thinks children as young as 12 years old could begin to transition their sex as a result of her efforts, Inside Out Youth Advocacy Services, in Colorado Springs, helped 13 year olds relocate without consent of their parents. She continued to deny that children who change their sex at a young age resent the decision and attempt to rectify what they had done, prompting one detransitioner to tweet that she would be able to go to DC to show that cases like hers are real. Pocock's testimony comes amid ongoing hearings over the rise in violence against LGBT Americans following a shooting at a gay club last month

Mace, a conservative who has argued for LGBT rights in the past, including voting for the recently enacted Respect for Marriage Act, confronted Alejandra Caraballo at a session on extremist threats. Caraballo, a trans woman and clinical instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic, was speaking at a House Oversight and Reform hearing titled 'Confronting White Supremacy: The Evolution of Anti-Democratic Parties and the Ongoing Threat to Democracy.' Five of the witnesses asked to testify if they considered rhetoric that could be characterized as a "threat to democracy," Rep. Mace asked. Caraballo acknowledged, triggering Mace's taking out a tweet she had made after the Dobbs' decision to reverse Roe vs Wade.

Bethany Mandel (left), editor of the Heroes of Liberty book series (top right), told Fox News that the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) had declined to recommend three non-fiction books to the school recently. Mandel said she created the book series to provide parents and educators with an alternative to progressive literature, which she believes is being 'forced into primary school children' in the district. Some people took to social media to insist that 'this nonsense' be stopped "for the sake of our children and this world.' Mandel said that what's happening in classrooms is a known problem, but that the publishing world is being pushed by a 'tidal wave of wakes.'

Justice Amy Coney Barrett of the Supreme Court was welcomed with roaring applause on Thursday at the conservative Federalist Society's first annual convention after the court reversed the supremacy of abortion throughout the country. 'Thank you, but it's really nice to hear a lot of noise made outside of my house,' Barrett joked, referring to the regular protests over Roe vs Wade's decision in June.' Barrett was one of the court's conservative supermajority that backed the controversial decision, which sparked a lot of resistance from abortion activists, including loud demonstrations outside of justices' homes.

And as a lower court considers whether to lift a freeze placed on the program in another situation, two Indiana borrowers challenged him. Barrett turned down an emergency request by the Indiana borrowers, represented by a centrist legal group, to prohibit the Department of Education from implementing the Democratic president's proposal to forgive debt held by qualified individuals who borrowed loans to pay for college. Barrett denied a similar request by a Wisconsin taxpayers group represented by another conservative law group on October 20. The justice was involved in the litigation because she was the justice chosen to deal with emergency requests from a group of states that includes Indiana and Wisconsin. Biden's scheme, which was announced in August, was designed to forgive up to $10,000 in student loan repayments for borrowers earning less than $250,000 per year, or $250,000 for married couples.

More than 470 members of the writing, publishing, and general literary community have signed a petition in protest against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's forthcoming book on Thursday. The petition was signed by many members of the 'literary community,' including editors, writers, and publishers for Random Penguin House, whose imprint Sentinel signed Barrett to a $2 million book contract in 2021. Barrett's position in the Supreme Court's decision to reverse Roe v. Wade in breach of the parent company Bertelsmann's Code of Conduct, according to petitioners.

A federal appeals court in Missouri has temporarily suspended student loan repayments from the Biden administration, arguing that they do not have time to consider a Republican challenge. The case before the St Louis, Missouri, 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, is one of a number of lawsuits brought by conservative state attorneys general and legal organizations trying to postpone the debt forgiveness initiative. The initiative, which was announced in August, was intended for people who had taken out loans to finance college: the decision, released on Friday, delayed the release of up to $20,000 in debt relief for more than 40 million eligible borrowers. Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, and South Carolina were among the states that were contested.

Six Republican-led states had their problems with Biden's student debt repayment scheme dismissed, marking the second major failure of the scheme. Judge Henry Autrey of St. Louis said that the states had raised 'important' questions in their challenges, but that they did not have the legal basis to pursue. Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied without explanation a challenge to the Brown County Taxpayers Association's scheme.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett has turned down an emergency appeal from a taxpayer group to prevent President Biden's student loan repayment program from starting on Sunday.

Leonard Leo, a member of the Federalist Society, made an unusually large $1.6 billion donation from electronics manufacturer Barre Seid to the media company a year ago. According to the New York Times, the donation, made to the Marble Freedom Trust by former Tripp Lite CEO and little-known Republican megadonor, is one of the most significant, if not the biggest-single contributions to a politically focused nonprofit.' Leo, the group's leader, is a conservative political activist who co-chairs the Federalist Society. He aided Justice Clarence Thomas through his confirmation hearings and led campaigns to obtain Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett through theirs. Thomas, who spoke at a Federalist Society lecture in 2018, joked that Leo is the 'number three most influential person in the world.'

Olivia Rodrigo promised that her first appearance at the Glastonbury Festival would be unforgettable when she brought pop star Lily Allen onstage for a duet of Allen's "F*ck You." Rodrigo dedicated the song, which features lyrics such as "look inside your tiny brain" and "Because we're so sick/tired of all the hate you harbor" — to Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh, who all voted to reverse Roe vs. Wade on June 24th. "This will be my first Glastonbury and I'm sharing this stage with Lily, it's the biggest dream come true ever," Rodrigo said. "I'm also deeply sad about what happened in America yesterday."

In the aftermath of the leaked Supreme Court draft's decision, Phoebe Bridgers is speaking out about her own abortion experience. You have most likely heard about Justice Samuel Alito's leaked opinion paper arguing that the court would reverse Roe vs. Wade, the historic case that safeguarded abortion rights. The Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of the document in a tweet, but added that "it does not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issue." Despite the fact that the outcome will not change if they make the final decision in late June or July, Alito, Clarence Thomas, Matthew Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett all supported the argument.

A leaked Supreme Court opinion that threatens to eliminate abortion protections at the federal level has shocked and angered Americans from all around the country. Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion, which stated "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start," and "We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," Justice Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, who wrote the story, were among the many contenders for Roe and Casey's impeachment, meaning a majority of the current Supreme Court endorse the ruling.