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Trump admin trying to take advantage of the U.S. Supreme Court's new conservative majority
SCOTUSblog, Monday, December 17, 2018, round-upEdith Roberts Editor
Posted Mon, December 17th, 2018 6:51 am
Monday round-up
At Bloomberg, Greg Stohr reports that “[t]he Trump administration is aggressively trying to take advantage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s new conservative majority, digging deep into the court’s rulebook to seek quick action on divisive issues.” Ariane de Vogue reports at CNN that “[t]he court, with its strong 5-4 conservative majority, is facing requests from an aggressive Trump administration to weigh in early on many of its most controversial policies in areas including immigration, LBGT rights, asylum and reinstating the citizenship question on the census.”
Devin Dwyer reports at ABC News that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, speaking at a naturalization ceremony on Friday “in her first public remarks following a health scare last month, hailed immigrants as the ‘vanguard’ of an effort to remove ‘stains’ of discrimination from American society.” Additional coverage comes from Morgan Gstalter at The Hill.
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We rely on our readers to send us links for our round-up. If you have or know of a recent (published in the last two or three days) article, post, podcast, or op-ed relating to the Supreme Court that you’d like us to consider for inclusion in the round-up, please send it to roundup [at] scotusblog.com. Thank you!
Posted in Round-up
Recommended Citation: Edith Roberts, Monday round-up, SCOTUSblog (Dec. 17, 2018, 6:51 AM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/12/monday-round-up-420/
Posted Mon, December 17th, 2018 6:51 am
Monday round-up
At Bloomberg, Greg Stohr reports that “[t]he Trump administration is aggressively trying to take advantage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s new conservative majority, digging deep into the court’s rulebook to seek quick action on divisive issues.” Ariane de Vogue reports at CNN that “[t]he court, with its strong 5-4 conservative majority, is facing requests from an aggressive Trump administration to weigh in early on many of its most controversial policies in areas including immigration, LBGT rights, asylum and reinstating the citizenship question on the census.”
Devin Dwyer reports at ABC News that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, speaking at a naturalization ceremony on Friday “in her first public remarks following a health scare last month, hailed immigrants as the ‘vanguard’ of an effort to remove ‘stains’ of discrimination from American society.” Additional coverage comes from Morgan Gstalter at The Hill.
Briefly:
{snip}
We rely on our readers to send us links for our round-up. If you have or know of a recent (published in the last two or three days) article, post, podcast, or op-ed relating to the Supreme Court that you’d like us to consider for inclusion in the round-up, please send it to roundup [at] scotusblog.com. Thank you!
Posted in Round-up
Recommended Citation: Edith Roberts, Monday round-up, SCOTUSblog (Dec. 17, 2018, 6:51 AM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/12/monday-round-up-420/
