Supreme Court tees up blockbuster final day of term | CNN Politics
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The Supreme Court will hand down its final decisions of the term on Friday, including an expected high-profile ruling on whether President Donald Trump may enforce his divisive executive order curtailing birthright citizenship.

Update: The Supremes voted to limit nationwide injunctions.

Among the cases still pending: the court will decide whether a school district in suburban Washington, DC, burdened the religious rights of parents by declining to allow them to opt their elementary-school children out of reading LGBTQ books in the classroom.

The court will also decide the fate of a government task force that recommends which preventive health care services must be covered at no cost under Obamacare. And it will decide a challenge over Louisiana’s congressional districts that questions how far states may go in considering race when they draw maps to fix a violation of the Voting Rights Act.

But by far the most significant decision is likely to be the one dealing with Trump’s birthright citizenship order.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    Seems so, but we never had an actual democracy to begin with, or Donald wouldn’t have been elected.

    That said, federal injunctions have been the only truly functioning portion of checks and balances, so I have no doubt we’re going to be full-steam ahead on Donald’s Project 1939. It bears repeating: If ICE comes knocking, you didn’t see anyone or anything, and in general, don’t talk to cops.

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
      3·
      4 days ago

      i would add our electoral process has been poisoned by the parties in control. i saw it start to fail when the league of women voters bailed, and the entire process was from then on entirely controlled only by those who would benefit from it.

      politicians should have no choice with regards to debate events or the configuration of those events. they absolutely should not have prior knowledge of questions to be asked, and should be fact-checked live.

      media agencies should be held accountable for know falsities. fox news has poisoned untold millions of people with countless fabrications over decades instilling a level of unsubstantiated fear forcing the ignorant to vote against their own best interests.