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BP v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
Can the oil company defendants get the climate change case against them removed to federal court?
Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski
Can Uzuegbunam get nominal relief from his college for restrictive speech policies that the college now removed?
Trump v. New York
Can the Trump administration re-tabulate the census count before determining House apportionment?
Carney v. Adams
Delaware limits positions on several high courts to the two major political parties. Do the limits violate an Independent’s First Amendment rights to free association?
Tanzin v. Tanvir
Can Tanvir and co. get money damages from the federal officers who tried to convince them to be spies?
Facebook v. Duguid
Does the law prohibiting auto-calls cover a device without a random or sequential number generator?
Essential SCOTUS Live Feed
An incomplete Supreme Court witnessed Biden’s oath. There’s history there. https://wapo.st/3iwsIq1
Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, became the first Black person, first woman and first Asian American to serve as vice president after she was sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor https://reut.rs/3sS5uj8
Her swearing-in was laced with history.
The oath of office was administered by Justice Sotomayor, the first Latina member of the high court. Harris swore on two bibles, one once owned by Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court justice. https://nbcnews.to/35X5t3i
As is custom, Supreme Court justices participated in the inaugural ceremony today.
The first Latina woman to become a Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor, made a little history swearing in Kamala Harris as the first Black and South Asian woman as Vice President.
In 2009, then-VP Joe Biden pushed for Obama to put Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court, and chose her to swear him in for his second term as VP. Today, she did the same honor for @VP Kamala Harris.
It's an honor to be your Vice President.
FLASHBACK: A disabled Yemeni child with U.S. relatives was excluded under Trump's travel ban--until #SCOTUS learned about her. With @POTUS 46 canceling the ban, recall how it worked in this @WSJ exclusive. https://www.wsj.com/articles/disabled-yemeni-child-cited-in-supreme-court-review-of-travel-ban-gains-entry-to-u-s-1527349776?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter
Kamala Harris became the first Black person, first woman and first Asian American to serve as vice president after she was sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor https://reut.rs/3sS5uj8
Official video commemorating Trump administration says only two of his Supreme Court appointees were "constitutional." https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse45/?notif_id=1611179681574465¬if_t=page_name_change&ref=notif
A man convicted of robbing a bank didn’t receive a fair trial, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled, because a prosecutor at trial likened him to a would-be ax murder when he showed a jury an image of Jack Nicholson's violent psychopath from “The Shining.” https://nyti.ms/3p60Mfd
The three oldest U.S. Supreme Court justices, Stephen Breyer, 82; Clarence Thomas, 72; and Samuel Alito, 70, opted not to attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration due to the coronavirus pandemic
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/supreme-court-justices-inauguration-460740
WATCH: Kamala Harris takes the oath of office to become vice president, sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/joe-biden-inauguration-2021-01-20/
WATCH: U.S. Supreme Court justices arrive at the Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
https://on.msnbc.com/2KuWor0
For the first time since at least 2001, not all members of the Supreme Court are attending the inauguration. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/20/biden-inauguration-day-live-updates/#link-753ASNDD4JBETKHABQY7FN6QO4
Six of the nine US Supreme Court justices are at today’s Biden-Harris inaugural ceremony.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer, and Samuel Alito elected not to attend due to pandemic concerns.
Bomb threat at #SCOTUS: “The Court received a bomb threat, the building and grounds were checked out, and the building is not being evacuated” — Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg
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