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CNN
27-06-2025
- Politics
- CNN
See Trump's reaction to big win at Supreme Court
President Trump thanked conservative Supreme Court justices and explained what he plans to do after the Supreme Court backed his effort to curtail lower court orders that have hampered his agenda for months.
CNN
27-06-2025
- Politics
- CNN
See Trump's reaction to big win at Supreme Court
President Trump thanked conservative Supreme Court justices and explained what he plans to do after the Supreme Court backed his effort to curtail lower court orders that have hampered his agenda for months.
CNN
27-06-2025
- Politics
- CNN
See Trump's reaction to big win at Supreme Court
President Trump thanked conservative Supreme Court justices and explained what he plans to do after the Supreme Court backed his effort to curtail lower court orders that have hampered his agenda for months.
Yahoo
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasts 'narrow-minded' judging on SCOTUS: ANALYSIS
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson unloaded on her Supreme Court colleagues Friday in a series of sharp dissents, castigating what she called a "pure textualism" approach to interpreting laws, which she said had become a pretext for securing their desired outcomes, and implying the conservative justices have strayed from their oath by showing favoritism to "moneyed interests." The attack on the court's conservative majority by the junior justice and member of the liberal wing is notably pointed and aggressive but stopped short of getting personal. It laid bare the stark divisions on the court and pent-up frustration in the minority over what Jackson described as inconsistent and unfair application of precedent by those in power. Jackson took particular aim at Justice Neil Gorsuch's majority opinion in a case brought by a retired Florida firefighter with Parkinson's disease who had tried to sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act after her former employer, the City of Sanford, canceled extended health insurance coverage for retirees who left the force before serving 25 years because of a disability. MORE: Supreme Court upholds a state law banning some gender-affirming care for transgenders kids Gorsuch wrote that the landmark law only protects "qualified individuals" and that retirees don't count. The ADA defines the qualified class as those who "can perform the essential functions of the employment position that such individual holds or desires." "This court has long recognized that the textual limitations upon a law's scope must be understood as no less a part of its purpose than its substantive authorizations," Gorsuch concluded in his opinion in Stanley v. City of Sanford. It was joined by all the court's conservatives and liberal Justice Elena Kagan. Jackson fired back, accusing her colleagues of reaching a "stingy outcome" and willfully ignoring the "clear design of the ADA to render a ruling that plainly counteracts what Congress meant to -- and did -- accomplish" with the law. She said they had "run in a series of textualist circles" and that the majority "closes its eyes to context, enactment history and the legislature's goals." "I cannot abide that narrow-minded approach," she wrote. MORE: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says 'whole truth' about Black history must be taught Gorsuch retorted that Jackson was simply complaining textualism didn't get her the outcome she wanted, prompting Jackson to take the rare step of using a lengthy footnote to accuse her colleague of the same. Saying the majority has a "unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role," Jackson said her colleagues' "refusal" to consider Congress' intent behind the ADA "turns the interpretative task into a potent weapon for advancing judicial policy preferences." "By 'finding' answers in ambiguous text," she wrote, "and not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences." Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who joined parts of Jackson's dissent, explicitly did not sign-on to the footnote. Justice Elena Kagan, a member of the liberal wing, joined the conservative majority in all three cases in which Jackson dissented, but she did not explain her views. In 2015, Kagan famously said, "we're all textualists now" of the court, but years later disavowed that approach over alleged abuse by conservative jurists. MORE: Supreme Court allows Trump to begin removing 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela In two other cases decided Friday, Jackson accused her colleagues of distorting the law to benefit major American businesses and in so doing "erode the public trust." She dissented from Justice Amy Coney Barrett's majority opinion siding with major tobacco manufacturer, R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co., that gives retailers the ability to sue the Food and Drug Administration over the denial of new product applications for e-cigarettes. Barrett concluded that a federal law meant to regulate the manufacture and distribution of new tobacco products also allows retailers who would sell the products to seek judicial review of an adverse FDA decision. Jackson blasted the conclusion as "illogical" again taking her colleagues to task for not sufficiently considering Congress' intent or longstanding precedent. "Every available indictor reveals that Congress intended to permit manufacturers -- not retailers -- to challenge the denial," she wrote. MORE: Justice Stephen Breyer's blunt message to Supreme Court conservatives: 'Slow down' Of the court's 7-2 decision by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, giving gasoline producers the right to sue California over limits on emission-producing cars, Jackson said her colleagues were favoring the fuel industry over "less powerful plaintiffs." "This case gives fodder to the unfortunate perception that moneyed interests enjoy an easier road to relief in this Court than ordinary citizens," she wrote. Jackson argued that the case should have been mooted, since the Trump administration withdrew EPA approval for California's emissions standards thereby eliminating any alleged harm to the auto and fuel industry. MORE: Supreme Court limits environmental impact studies, expediting infrastructure projects "Those of us who are privileged to work inside the Court must not lose sight of this institution's unique mission and responsibility: to rule without fear or favor," she wrote, admonishing her colleagues. The court is next scheduled to convene Thursday, June 26, to release another round of opinions in cases argued this term. Decisions are expected in a dispute over online age verification for adult websites, parental opt-out rights for kids in public schools exposed to LGBTQ themes, and, the scope of nationwide injunctions against President Donald Trump's second-term policies.
Daily Mail
19-06-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
JD Vance suspended from Bluesky for bizarre reason after posting transgender views
Vice President was briefly kicked off of Bluesky – the social media site that emerged as the left-leaning alternative to X. Vance posted to the site for the first time on Wednesday to open a discussion about the Supreme Court 's decision to uphold a Tennessee law banning minors from being prescribed hormones or receiving transgender surgeries or treatments. 'Hello Bluesky,' Vance wrote. 'I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.' He shared images of the 6-3 majority opinion where the conservative justices questioned the authority of so-called 'experts' on the matter of transgenderism in children and said it should be left up to the states to decide their laws one way or the other. The vice president's account was suspended after the three-post thread went live. A spokesperson for the platform said Vance was briefly removed because the Bluesky system flagged the account as a potential imposter. Vance posted for the first time to the left-leaning alternative to X to open a discussion about the Supreme Court's decision to uphold rulings letting stand a Tennessee law that bans minors from receiving transgender treatments and surgeries They said the account was reinstated within 20 minutes of the automated system removing it and a verified badge was added to help authenticate the profile. 'Vice President Vance's account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts which have targeted public figures like him in the past,' Bluesky said in its statement. 'The account was quickly restored and verified so people can easily confirm its authenticity,' the company added. 'We welcome the Vice President to join the conversation on Bluesky.' Vance posted images of his Bluesky thread on X writing: 'Just set up my page on @bluesky, hope to see you guys there!' He wrote in the three-part post about his consensus with the conservative majority's opinion handed down on Wednesday. The decision is likely to extend to bans or restrictions in 25 other states where similar laws were put into place or proposed to stop minors from receiving irreversible gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments. 'The Court's role is not 'to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic' of [the Tennessee law], but only to ensure that the law does not violate equal protection guarantees. It does not,' Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. He added: 'Questions regarding the law's policy are thus appropriately left to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process.' Vance's first activity on Bluesky was a three-part post about the Supreme Court ruling Vance posted on Bluesky: 'I found Justice Thomas's concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating.' 'He argues that many of our so-called 'experts' have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth,' the vice president wrote. 'I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?' Vance said he wanted to have open conversation on the social media site that emerged as the liberal alternative to X as it became increasingly right wing – especially after billionaire Elon Musk's purchase of the platform.
