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The end of affirmative action

September 7, 2025August 25, 2025

Colleges face a new era of admissions after the Supreme Court calls for race-neutral policies.
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Categories Legal Docket Tags affirmative action, bench statements, Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, equal protection clause, Fourteenth Amendment, race-neutral admissions, Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard, Students for Fair Admissions v UNC, Supreme Court, University of North Carolina

Finding a place for nuclear waste

May 4, 2025March 31, 2025

The Supreme Court weighs Texas’ challenge to a proposed storage site for spent nuclear fuel.

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Categories The World and Everything in It Tags Interim Storage Partners, nuclear energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, spent nuclear fuel, Supreme Court, Texas

Fighting for Sabbath rest

May 4, 2025February 8, 2025

A special legal episode about a mailman, his faith, and the byzantine legal rules of religious liberty in the U.S.

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Categories Doubletake Tags constitutional law, Genesis 1, Gerald Groff, Groff v DeJoy, rest, sabbath, Shabbat, Sunday sabbath, Supreme Court

Ballot ban

October 2, 2024February 12, 2024

The Supreme Court considers whether a state can remove Donald Trump from the presidential primary ballot.

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Categories The World and Everything in It Tags ballot ban, Colorado ballot, insurrection clause, Supreme Court, Trump v Anderson

Education after affirmative action

August 7, 2023July 4, 2023

The Supreme Court rules that race-based admissions practices are unconstitutional.

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Categories The World and Everything in It Tags affirmative action, Harvard, race-conscious admissions, SCOTUS, Students for Fair Admissions, Supreme Court, UNC

Mayhem at the Marathon

May 4, 2025October 12, 2022

The Supreme Court addresses jury selection and mitigating evidence in the Boston Marathon bombers case.

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Categories Legal Docket Tags bombing, Boston Marathon, capital punishment, constitutional law, jury bias, jury duty, mitigating evidence, running, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Tsarnaev

A new voice on the court

August 7, 2023October 10, 2022

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the 116th justice in the history of the Supreme Court.

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Categories The World and Everything in It Tags EPA, justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, wetlands

Bitter Pills

August 7, 2023October 4, 2022

The Supreme Court addresses the Controlled Substances Act in a case about pill mill doctors.

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Categories Legal Docket Tags addiction, Controlled Substances Act, grammar, Joel Johnson, Kahn v US, opioids, pill mill doctor, Ruan v US, SCOTUS, statutory interpretation, subordinate conjunction, Supreme Court

Drawing the Line

August 7, 2023September 7, 2022

A courtroom artist talks about what he’s learned by sketching court proceedings.

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Categories Legal Docket Tags artist, Bill Hennessy, courtroom art, SCOTUS, Supreme Court

Level Praying Field

August 7, 2023August 30, 2022

The Supreme Court tackles the First Amendment in this case about a praying football coach.

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Categories Legal Docket Tags constitutional law, establishment clause, First Amendment, football, free speech, Kennedy v Bremerton, Moses Hogan singers, religion clause, school prayer, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
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