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JUST IN: Chief Justice John Roberts speaks out in defense of an "independent judiciary" in the wake of President Trump's latest attack on the judiciary. (News first reported by @shermancourt and the AP.)
Here's my breaking @BuzzFeedNews report, which will be updated —> Chief Justice John Roberts Defends Judges Following Trump's Latest Attacks On The Judiciary buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
"Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare rebuke to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, defending the 'independent judiciary' and contradicting Trump's latest attack on a federal judge." buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
Definitely had not expected to write this story when I woke up this morning. buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
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#SCOTUS, Jan. 8, 2019. With most of the sights in DC shut down, the Supreme Court is drawing a big crowd even for relatively low-profile cases.
It's a one-box Tuesday here at #SCOTUS, meaning one or two decisions in argued cases should be coming at 10a.
The first decision is Justice Kavanaugh's first majority opinion, in Henry Schein, Inc. v Archer & White Sales, Inc., vacating the 5th Circuit in an arbitration case. The decision was unanimous. #SCOTUS
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This @lachlan piece on the money that flows behind, underneath, beside, and in front of everything that Leonard Leo does contains at least 5 important stories within it: thedailybeast.com/top-trump-back…
There's so little we know about the funding behind the groups that have been behind the judicial nominations work that it's hard to know exactly what we've seen pieces of before, but there's a lot here.
First off, they posted the document, so kudos to the Daily Beast. documentcloud.org/documents/5676…
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#SCOTUS, Jan. 7, 2019.
Justice Ruther Bader Ginsburg is not at #SCOTUS today for arguments, the public information office announced, but will be participating in the cases on review of the filings and transcripts from today’s arguments.
Here are this morning's orders from #SCOTUS: supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
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