#supremecourt — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #supremecourt, aggregated by home.social.
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California, other states warn Supreme Court of ‘chaos’ if it lets USPS mail ballot rules stand
California and nearly two dozen other states warned the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday that allowing the U.S. Postal…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ballot #change #chaos #high-court #mailballot #newrule #otherstate #postalservice #PresidentTrump #state #states #SupremeCourt #Trumpadministration #UnitedStates #Us #USA #voter #widespreadvoterfraud
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https://www.europesays.com/people/221825/ Newsom says he’s open to Supreme Court reform, slams Electoral College #DemocraticParty #GavinNewsom #Media #SupremeCourt #TheElectoralCollege
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September Showdown! SCOTUS Orders Blue State AGs To Respond To ParaBros Merger Antitrust Suit Objection From Iowa & Montana
#Legal #News #Politics #DavidEllison #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Paramount #ParamountWBD #RobBonta #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Warnerbrosdiscoveryhttps://deadline.com/2026/09/paramount-merger-lawsuit-supreme-court-ruling-1237072572/
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Republicans suffered a stunning Supreme Court loss. It lasted minutes.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/221336/ California voters can fix a flaw in the state’s recall system #Biden #CourtPick #EssentialPolitics #FirstBlackWoman #GavinNewsom #gender #HighCourt #History #jefferson #MediaCoverage #Nominee #PoliticalCriticism #Race #stereotypes #SupremeCourt #women
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LGBTQ+ families face a harder school year — but they are not powerless
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/lgbtq-back-to-school
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https://www.europesays.com/ch/128173/ SC reverses Imelda Marcos’ graft conviction over Swiss foundations #acquittal #allegations #AntiGraftAndCorruptPracticesAct #ConvictionOverturned #FerdinandEMarcosAdministration #FinancialInterests #graft #ImeldaMarcos #JusticeRodilVZalameda #LandmarkRuling #MetroManilaGovernor #PrisonSentence #PrivateFoundations #PublicOfficeDisqualification #Sandiganbayan #SupremeCourt #Swiss #Switzerland
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California voters can fix a flaw in the state’s recall system https://www.byteseu.com/2350219/ #Biden #CourtPick #EssentialPolitics #FirstBlackWoman #Gender #HighCourt #history #jefferson #MediaCoverage #nominee #PoliticalCriticism #Politics #race #stereotypes #SupremeCourt #women
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Trans soldier tells Pete Hegseth: Say your slurs to my face
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has spent more than a year broadcasting his contempt for transgender troops from behind…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #Død #pentagon #petehegseth #SecretaryofDefense #SupremeCourt #talbott-v-united-states #transgenderrights #transgendertroops #transgender-identity
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Paramount Warns California AG, Others About What Happens If Antitrust Suit Fails
Just weeks before Paramount Skydance starts being on the hook for the vaunted $7-million-a-day ticking fee to Warner…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Business #Antitrust #DavidEllison #donaldtrump #Paramount #paramountskydance #ParamountWBD #RobBonta #SupremeCourt #WarnerBrosDiscovery #WGA
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/08/supreme-court-ruling-missouri-gop-congressional-maps
I think this probably means that #scotus will refuse to hear #trump #doj case for taking over mail in ballot provisioning, which would also mean that they’re virtue signaling, in a marketing move, before midterms. The implicit political posturing, however, with no holds barred support for Trump right up until it no longer appears sustainable, means that the #supremecourt should be remade anyway, even if they play nice after their #maga party.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/08/supreme-court-ruling-missouri-gop-congressional-maps
I think this probably means that #scotus will refuse to hear #trump #doj case for taking over mail in ballot provisioning, which would also mean that they’re virtue signaling, in a marketing move, before midterms. The implicit political posturing, however, with no holds barred support for Trump right up until it no longer appears sustainable, means that the #supremecourt should be remade anyway, even if they play nice after their #maga party.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/08/supreme-court-ruling-missouri-gop-congressional-maps
I think this probably means that #scotus will refuse to hear #trump #doj case for taking over mail in ballot provisioning, which would also mean that they’re virtue signaling, in a marketing move, before midterms. The implicit political posturing, however, with no holds barred support for Trump right up until it no longer appears sustainable, means that the #supremecourt should be remade anyway, even if they play nice after their #maga party.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/08/supreme-court-ruling-missouri-gop-congressional-maps
I think this probably means that #scotus will refuse to hear #trump #doj case for taking over mail in ballot provisioning, which would also mean that they’re virtue signaling, in a marketing move, before midterms. The implicit political posturing, however, with no holds barred support for Trump right up until it no longer appears sustainable, means that the #supremecourt should be remade anyway, even if they play nice after their #maga party.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/08/supreme-court-ruling-missouri-gop-congressional-maps
I think this probably means that #scotus will refuse to hear #trump #doj case for taking over mail in ballot provisioning, which would also mean that they’re virtue signaling, in a marketing move, before midterms. The implicit political posturing, however, with no holds barred support for Trump right up until it no longer appears sustainable, means that the #supremecourt should be remade anyway, even if they play nice after their #maga party.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/220389/ Trans soldier tells Pete Hegseth: Say your slurs to my face #PeteHegseth #SupremeCourt #TalbottVUnitedStates #TransgenderRights #TransgenderTroops #TransgenderIdentity
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Paramount Demands CA AG Bonta & WGA Strip Off Blinkers & Join Real World In $111B WBD Merger Battle: “Must Accept The Financial Consequences If Their Challenge Ultimately Fails”
#Legal #News #Antitrust #DavidEllison #DonaldTrump #Paramount #ParamountSkydance #ParamountWBD #RobBonta #SupremeCourt #Warnerbrosdiscovery #WGAhttps://deadline.com/2026/09/paramount-warns-california-merger-lawsuit-1237071462/
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Paramount Demands CA AG Bonta & WGA Strip Off Blinkers & Join Real World In $111B WBD Merger Battle: “Must Accept The Financial Consequences If Their Challenge Ultimately Fails”
#Legal #News #Antitrust #DavidEllison #DonaldTrump #Paramount #ParamountSkydance #ParamountWBD #RobBonta #SupremeCourt #Warnerbrosdiscovery #WGAhttps://deadline.com/2026/09/paramount-warns-california-merger-lawsuit-1237071462/
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Paramount Demands CA AG Bonta & WGA Strip Off Blinkers & Join Real World In $111B WBD Merger Battle: “Must Accept The Financial Consequences If Their Challenge Ultimately Fails”
#Legal #News #Antitrust #DavidEllison #DonaldTrump #Paramount #ParamountSkydance #ParamountWBD #RobBonta #SupremeCourt #Warnerbrosdiscovery #WGAhttps://deadline.com/2026/09/paramount-warns-california-merger-lawsuit-1237071462/
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Supreme Court Blocks Missouri GOP Map for November Elections
Supreme Court Blocks Missouri GOP Map bid, with Justice Kavanaugh denying an emergency request to use the state's 7-1 congressional lines in November.https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/elections/supreme-court-blocks-missouri-gop-map/
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Supreme Court Blocks Missouri GOP Map for November Elections
Supreme Court Blocks Missouri GOP Map bid, with Justice Kavanaugh denying an emergency request to use the state's 7-1 congressional lines in November.https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/elections/supreme-court-blocks-missouri-gop-map/
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Supreme Court Blocks Missouri GOP Map for November Elections
Supreme Court Blocks Missouri GOP Map bid, with Justice Kavanaugh denying an emergency request to use the state's 7-1 congressional lines in November.https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/elections/supreme-court-blocks-missouri-gop-map/
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Supreme Court Blocks Missouri GOP Map for November Elections
Supreme Court Blocks Missouri GOP Map bid, with Justice Kavanaugh denying an emergency request to use the state's 7-1 congressional lines in November.https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/elections/supreme-court-blocks-missouri-gop-map/
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Transgender Army master sergeant dares Pete Hegseth: Say your anti-trans slurs to my face
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Transgender Army master sergeant dares Pete Hegseth: Say your anti-trans slurs to my face
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Pentagon digs through troops’ confidential medical records to hunt for transgender service members
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Pentagon digs through troops’ confidential medical records to hunt for transgender service members
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/416419/ South Africa heads for court to stop Mandela’s daughter from auctioning late president’s belongings #AntiApartheidLeader #DepartmentOfSportsArtsAndCulture #HeritageResourcesAgency(SAHRA) #LatePresidentNelsonMandela #MakaziweMandela #Mandela’sRobbenIslandPrisonCell #news #NigerianNews #QunuVillage #SouthAfrica #SouthAfrica’sNationalHeritage #SupremeCourt #TheRobbenIslandMuseum
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Just published in the Journal of European Public Policy:
"Judicial conflicts on international law: how disagreements on EU and ECHR law align with broader divisions on the Supreme Court of Norway"
– which I have co-authored with the eminent Olof Larsson and Jon Kåre Skiple.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2026.2725075
#echr #EU #norway #InternationalLaw #JudicialPolitics #OpenAccess #supremeCourt #EUlaw #HumanRights #EuropeanLaw
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Just published in the Journal of European Public Policy:
"Judicial conflicts on international law: how disagreements on EU and ECHR law align with broader divisions on the Supreme Court of Norway"
– which I have co-authored with the eminent Olof Larsson and Jon Kåre Skiple.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2026.2725075
#echr #EU #norway #InternationalLaw #JudicialPolitics #OpenAccess #supremeCourt #EUlaw #HumanRights #EuropeanLaw
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Just published in the Journal of European Public Policy:
"Judicial conflicts on international law: how disagreements on EU and ECHR law align with broader divisions on the Supreme Court of Norway"
– which I have co-authored with the eminent Olof Larsson and Jon Kåre Skiple.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2026.2725075
#echr #EU #norway #InternationalLaw #JudicialPolitics #OpenAccess #supremeCourt #EUlaw #HumanRights #EuropeanLaw
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Just published in the Journal of European Public Policy:
"Judicial conflicts on international law: how disagreements on EU and ECHR law align with broader divisions on the Supreme Court of Norway"
– which I have co-authored with the eminent Olof Larsson and Jon Kåre Skiple.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2026.2725075
#echr #EU #norway #InternationalLaw #JudicialPolitics #OpenAccess #supremeCourt #EUlaw #HumanRights #EuropeanLaw
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🇺🇸⚖️ Trump-Supreme Court updateA narrow Supreme Court development involving Donald Trump is raising fresh questions about the administration's legal and political future.
Read the latest BNEWSO report:
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House lawmaker sues to reverse Missouri Supreme Court decision to block GOP-friendly congressional map
Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.) is leading a lawsuit aimed at reversing the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision last week…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Gerrymandering #Headlines #Lawsuits #MidtermElections(2026) #Missouri #Politics #SupremeCourt #TopStories #USNews #us-house-of-representatives
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Why Does the US Still Use the Death Penalty?
The U.S. is on pace to execute 50 or more people this year. The latest is slated for…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #Crime #deathpenalty #federalexecutions #InternationalLaw #justice #Law #SupremeCourt #UnitedStatesofAmerica
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Why Does the US Still Use the Death Penalty?
The U.S. is on pace to execute 50 or more people this year. The latest is slated for…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #Crime #deathpenalty #federalexecutions #InternationalLaw #justice #Law #SupremeCourt #UnitedStatesofAmerica
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Supreme Court Declines Donald Trump’s Request For Rehearing Of E. Jean Carroll Defamation Case
#News #Politics #Defamation #DonaldTrump #EJeanCarroll #ElectionLine #SupremeCourthttps://deadline.com/2026/08/trump-e-jean-carroll-supreme-court-1237042886/
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#SCOTUS again rebuffs #Trump in $5 million #EJeanCarroll case
Rebuffing Trump for a second time, the #US #SupremeCourt declined on Monday to hear his appeal of a $5 million verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing [raping] & defaming the former magazine columnist.
#law #rape #RapistInChief
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-supreme-court-again-rebuffs-trump-5-million-e-jean-carroll-case-2026-08-17/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
Trump Signs Executive Orders Ending Birth Tourism And Protecting The Value Of American Citizenship
Following the unfortunate decision made the by Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) regarding birthright citizenship, US President Donald J. Trump signed two new Executive Orders to formally end birth tourism while also protecting the meaning and value of American citizenship.
To put things in perspective, posted below is the News24 (formerly Sky News Australia) video covering the Oval Office. Watch it and pay close attention to the details.
https://youtu.be/YC3PrTABmic?si=qLGS_xhbDUE99gcD&t=239
In America, birth tourism is already a huge problem that has yet to be full resolved. If it is left unchecked, it will negatively impact and even deform democracy in the US. That said, President Trump signed the Executive Order ending birth tourism. To understand it fully, posted below is the entire content of the said Executive Order sourced from the White House website. Some parts in boldface…
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. United States citizenship is among the greatest inheritances the Nation can bestow. It embodies a sacred bond between the American people and the Nation in which they live, and carries profound rights, privileges, and responsibilities reflective of the enduring allegiance of citizens to the United States and our Constitution. Citizenship is not a commodity to be acquired through calculated exploitation and evasion of the immigration laws, such as by entering the United States on a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth within the Nation’s borders.
Birth tourism operators use deceptive advertisements and inducements to entice foreign nationals to travel to the United States for the purpose of giving birth on American soil. They promise citizenship; access to public benefits; and short-term stays in specialized facilities, hotels, or rentals, but often fail to deliver on these promises. These operators coach their clients to misrepresent the purpose and duration of their travel to consular and border officials to obtain visas authorizing entry into the United States. Failure to appropriately combat these schemes has resulted in thriving industries around the world that profit by enabling the evasion of American immigration laws to obtain citizenship and other immigration benefits for foreign visitors, and the exploitation of the women who travel here for purposes of giving birth.
The immigration laws of the United States establish discrete categories of temporary nonimmigrant visas to allow foreign visitors into the United States for study, exchange, temporary employment, tourism, and other transitory activities that are now exploited by birth tourism operators. Participants in birth tourism schemes abuse these categories to establish a permanent foothold in the United States by securing the advantage of citizenship for their children and then potentially for themselves.
Birth tourism, defined in section 3 of this order, undermines the integrity of the Nation’s immigration system by enabling foreign nationals to exploit their temporary admission to obtain permanent immigration-related benefits. Birth tourism also diverts limited consular inspection and enforcement resources away from legitimate visa applicants, erodes public confidence in the faithful enforcement of the immigration laws, and impairs the executive branch’s ability to protect the national security.
The United States has a compelling interest in ensuring that each visa category is used only for the purpose for which it was established. Foreign nationals seeking temporary admission into the United States must adhere to the purposes for which the Congress has authorized their temporary admission, and cannot be permitted to circumvent the immigration laws in an attempt to vest themselves and their children with lasting benefits that are irreconcilable with their nonimmigrant status.
It is therefore the policy of the United States to promote the integrity of its immigration system, to ensure that nonimmigrant visa classifications are used only for their lawful and intended purposes, and to prevent the exploitation of those classifications by persons engaging in birth tourism.
Sec. 2. Authorities. Pursuant to section 301 of title 3, United States Code, the authority granted to the President under section 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1185(a), is hereby delegated to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to the extent necessary to implement this order, including the authority to issue or adopt rules, policies, operational guidance, or other guidance to carry out this order.
Sec. 3. Definition. For purposes of this order, “birth tourism” is defined as:
(a) the entry of any foreign national into the United States via a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth on American soil; or
(b) any effort by any foreign national to facilitate the entry of any foreign national into the United States via a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth on American soil.
Sec. 4. Scope and Implementation. (a) The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take such actions and update any rules, policies, operational guidance, or other guidance as necessary to effectuate the policy set forth in this order. Such actions may include, within the Secretaries’ respective discretion and authority, appropriate action to prevent the entry into the United States of, or the granting of any visa or other travel authorization to, any alien entering or attempting to enter the United States for the purpose of engaging in birth tourism; revoking the visa or travel authorization and permanently barring entry of any alien who enters or attempts to enter the United States for the purpose of engaging in birth tourism; denial of entry to, or removal of, any alien who previously engaged or plans to engage in birth tourism; or other appropriate action against entities, organizations, or individuals, within or outside of the United States, responsible for facilitating or enabling birth tourism in any manner.
(b) All other relevant executive departments and agencies shall provide such records and information as are necessary for the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to implement the terms of this order and the rules, policies, operational guidance, or other guidance issued pursuant to it, subject to applicable law.
Sec. 5. Exemptions. Notwithstanding the restrictions imposed by this order, the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security may exempt a foreign national from actions taken pursuant to this order on humanitarian grounds or when the foreign national’s entry is in the national interest, as determined by the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
(d) If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision to any person or circumstances, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of any of its other provisions to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
(e) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of Homeland Security.
DONALD J. TRUMP
Let me end this piece by asking you readers: What is your reaction to this development? Do you think the two new Executive Orders signed by Trump will effectively end birth tourism while protecting the value of American citizenship? What kind of responses do you think the Democrats will come up with to oppose the Executive Orders. Do you think Islamist states like Iran, Pakistan, Qatar and Bangladesh are deliberately sending their citizens to America with birth tourism in mind? Did you spot any Chinese nationals engaging in birth tourism in America lately?
You may answer in the comments below. If you prefer to answer privately, you may do so by sending me a direct message online.
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Legal Expert Warns of Key Moment as Trump Faces Supreme Court Appeal Over Voting Rules
📰 Original title: Sobering prediction as expert flags 'key moment' Trump is 'deathly afraid of'
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Donald Trump's wild week as tariffs return and America is terrorised by poop lettuce
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/211413/ How Congress Can End Trump’s Iran War and Prevent the Next One #Appropriations #Chadha #Congress #CongressionalAuthorization #House #Iran #IranNuclearNegotiations #NationalDefenseAuthorizationActNDAA #Senate #SupremeCourt(SCOTUS) #Transparency #TrumpAdministrationSecondTerm #WarPowers #WarPowersResolution #WhiteHouse #Youngstown
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https://www.europesays.com/people/155766/ How Congress Can End Trump’s Iran War and Prevent the Next One #Appropriations #Chadha #Congress #CongressionalAuthorization #house #Iran #IranNuclearNegotiations #NationalDefenseAuthorizationActNDAA #POTUS #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #Senate #SupremeCourt(SCOTUS) #Transparency #TrumpAdministrationSecondTerm #WarPowers #WarPowersResolution #WhiteHouse #Youngstown
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Weekly output: not-so-independent agencies, location privacy, Virginia’s data-center tax, Blue Origin’s return-to-flight plans, civil supersonic flight, astronomy in VR, Backblaze
The list below would be a lot of published work for a five-workday week, and yet I didn’t write any of those things or deal with edits to them on Friday. The Supreme Court bears much of the responsibility for this pace, the aerospace-industry news cycle did its own part, and then I had two pieces that I’d started weeks before finally get published on the one day that I gave this keyboard a decent rest.
But wait, there was more: I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers Tuesday about the business calculations I’m working through as I decide if going to Berlin for the IFA tech trade show can pencil out for me.
6/29/2026: Supreme Court Gives Trump the Green Light to Fire Heads of FTC, Other Agencies, PCMag
Since I’ve been following President Trump’s attempts to expel the Democratic minority on the Federal Trade Commission, commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, since first writing about this story last March, I felt obliged to cover the Court’s conclusion of this case.
6/30/2026: Supreme Court: Fourth Amendment Protects Your Phone’s Location History, PCMag
I felt just as obliged to cover the Court ruling that Google’s Location History tool incurs Fourth Amendment protections–and to note that the majority opinion describes this as if Google hadn’t since turned Location History into an on-device, end-to-end-encrypted feature that Google can no longer access if presented with a “geofence warrant.”
6/30/2026: The State With the Most Data Centers Will Now Tax Their Energy Use, PCMag
I had been meaning to write about how Virginia has begun to change its approach to the data centers that now sprawl across Loudoun and Prince William counties. But until the General Assembly reached a belated budget compromise in the closing days of June, I didn’t know what sort of change we’d get.
7/1/2026: Blue Origin: Here’s How We’ll Return New Glenn to Flight Faster Than Expected, PCMag
Blue Origin posted an update Tuesday about its plans to resume launches of its New Glenn rocket. But in addition to having my hands full Tuesday, I needed part of Wednesday to take notes from videos of recent discussions–a panel with Blue founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Dave Limp, another panel led by Ars Technica space reporter Eric Berger, and a NASA press conference featuring administrator Jared Isaacman–that yielded some insight into the company’s situation.
7/2/2026: FAA Moves to Allow Civil Supersonic Flights Over Land, If They’re Quiet Enough, PCMag
This was my longest story published this week, because it had to cover not only the Federal Aviation Administration’s opening of a rulemaking process to legalize commercial supersonic flights over land but also the current state of affairs at Boom Supersonic and NASA’s debut of flight tests of its “low-boom” X-59 aircraft. That was a lot of detail to pack in, and I missed one error in my copy until a few hours after the story posted–I had described Boom’s XB-1 testbed aircraft as a single-engine plane when I meant single-seat.
7/3/2026: Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR, Ars Technica
Earlier in June, I spent a fascinating 40 minutes with a computer strapped to my face in a windowless room in downtown D.C., enjoying a VR tour of some of the universe’s more interesting places. I thought that would be a good fit for a site that routinely covers both technology and astronomy, and that’s how I’ve now had two pieces run at Ars this year after going three years since my previous contribution to one of my daily tech-news reads.
7/3/2026: Backblaze: Backup May Be a ‘Declining’ Business, But We’re Not Backing Away
This post was originally going to start with my talking to an exec with this computer-backup and cloud-storage firm at the TechEx North America conference in the middle of May, but my having the appointment on my calendar did not prevent me from completely spacing about it. We then punted to having the conversation over video but next had to reschedule the call multiple times. And now that the piece is finally published, we need to correct a few small items in it.
#AlvaroBedoya #BlueOrigin #BoomSupersonic #boomlessCruise #ChatrieVUnitedStates #dataCenterTax #dataCenters #FTC #MachCutoff #nasa #NewGlenn #RebeccaKellySlaughter #SCOTUS #Smithsonian #Starstruck #supersonicTravel #SupremeCourt #TrumpVSlaughter #VirginiaPolitics #virtualReality #VR #X59 -
Cruise to dock in Charleston, SC; Italian restaurant to open
The final cruise ship at Charleston’s Union Pier is arriving earlier than expected. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld state b…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiancafefood #cafefood #creditonestadium #cruiseship #danielisland #Italia #Italian #ItalianRestaurant #italiano #italy #supremecourt #transathletes #unionpier #westashley #worldcup
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Cruise to dock in Charleston, SC; Italian restaurant to open https://www.diningandcooking.com/2708009/cruise-to-dock-in-charleston-sc-italian-restaurant-to-open/ #CafeFood #CreditOneStadium #CruiseShip #DanielIsland #Italia #Italian #ItalianCafeFood #ItalianRestaurant #italiano #italy #SupremeCourt #TransAthletes #UnionPier #WestAshley #WorldCup
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws banning transgender girls from playing on school sports teams with girls and women. Here's what that means for Washington state.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/how-the-scotus-trans-athlete-ruling-affects-wa
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#SupremeCourt Rejects Lawsuit Alleging #Roundup #Weedkiller Caused #Cancer
The court’s decision is likely to determine the future of thousands of lawsuits against #Bayer, which manufactures the weedkiller, over similar claims.
By Abbie VanSickle
June 25, 2026, 10:50 a.m. ET"The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with the manufacturer of the weedkiller Roundup, overturning a jury award for a Missouri man who claimed the widely used herbicide caused cancer in a decision that could have sweeping impacts on thousands of other Americans who similarly claim the product sickened them.
In the 7-to-2 decision, written by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, the majority found that a federal law that regulates pesticides barred the Missouri man’s lawsuit.
Justice Kavanaugh wrote that the Missouri case would “require a cancer warning on Roundup’s label,” which would directly conflict with the label required by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Because of this conflict, he wrote, federal law “expressly pre-empts” the Missouri man’s claim.
The dispute focused on a single case, a $1.25 million award for John Durnell, a gardener in St. Louis who had used Roundup for decades and claimed that years of exposure to the product led him to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a blood cancer. Mr. Durnell claimed that the company had failed to warn consumers of the dangers of the product.
The ramifications of the decision could be enormous, potentially jeopardizing thousands of lawsuits pending in state and federal courts against Bayer, the German company that acquired Roundup’s original maker, #Monsanto, in 2018.
The legal question before the justices focused on a narrow slice of the broader litigation: whether Bayer can be sued in state-level courts given that a federal agency decided not to issue a warning label for the weedkiller.
The Environmental Protection Agency, which is in charge of labeling pesticides throughout the country, has determined Roundup is safe. Bayer claims that the finding, which allows Roundup to be sold without a warning label, should override claims by Mr. Durnell and others that under state laws, they were injured by the product.
The Trump administration joined the case on Bayer’s side, reversing the position taken by the Biden administration. The Trump administration’s support for the Roundup manufacturer has been controversial among the Make America Healthy Again movement, whose activists had largely supported the president’s political rise.
Government lawyers asserted that once the E.P.A. determined Roundup was safe, Bayer was in fact required to abide by the agency’s decision in its product labeling.
If the company had tried to unilaterally change the product’s label, they argued, it would have violated the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.
Roundup, which was created by Monsanto in the 1970s, is one of the most popular weedkillers in the world. But concerns over one of its active ingredients — a chemical called #glyphosate that is absorbed by plants, traveling into their roots and blocking an enzyme used for their growth — have prompted one of the biggest waves of class-action lawsuits in U.S. history.
Evidence in lab animals, along with more limited evidence in humans, has shown a link between glyphosate and cancer, and a 2015 report by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified it as “probably #carcinogenic to humans.”
The E.P.A. has studied the chemical and determined a cancer warning was not necessary. In February 2020, the agency announced findings that “there are no risks of concern to human health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label” and that the chemical was “unlikely” to cause cancer in humans.
After a court challenge, the #EPA withdrew those findings and the chemical’s safety currently remains under formal review.
In his lawsuit, Mr. Durnell said the company should be liable for failing to warn users about the risks of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma from exposure to glyphosate.
In 2023, a jury in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, a state court, sided with Mr. Durnell. The company appealed the case, which eventually landed at the Supreme Court."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/politics/supreme-court-weedkiller-roundup-bayer.html
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