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Supreme Court News Briefs - November 4, 2024
Election
New York Times: Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Block Count of Some Pennsylvania Provisional Ballots
Abbie VanSickle reports that on Friday the Supreme Court cleared the way for “some voters in Pennsylvania whose mail-in ballots had been deemed invalid to cast provisional ballots in person, rejecting an appeal by Republicans not to count such votes.”
Also covered by: NPR, NBC, Vox
Slate: Thousands of Pennsylvania Ballots Will Be Tossed on a Technicality. Thank SCOTUS.
Richard Hasen argues that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Moore v. Harper has likely directly resulted in a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that is disenfranchising thousands of mail-in voters. He argues that Moore may be discouraging state courts from “appropriately protecting voters more aggressively under their state constitutions.”
MSNBC: The Supreme Court keeps facing last minute election questions
Bloomberg: Election Threatens to Upend Biden Battles at US Supreme Court
Lydia Wheeler reports that if Donald Trump is elected president, it could upend a number of cases the Biden administration is fighting before the Supreme Court this term, including “disputes over health-care treatments for transgender minors and federal regulations for build-at-home ‘ghost guns.’”
The Guardian: If Trump wins the election, this is what's at stake
Ed Pilkington writes about what is at stake if Trump wins the election, from his policy priorities to changes he could make to the Supreme Court.
Also covered by: Newsweek, MSNBC
State Courts
Washington Post: Abortion politics draw money to once-sleepy state Supreme Court races
Patrick Svitek writes about state supreme court races, which were once sleepy affairs that have been reinvigorated by abortion fights. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe, national political groups have dedicated millions of dollars to winning these races.c
New Orders and Cases
Bloomberg: Supreme Court to Weigh Race-Based Voting Lines After Election
Vox: The big stakes in the Supreme Court’s new, absurdly messy gerrymandering case
Ian Millhiser reports that on Monday the Supreme Court announced that it will hear “a bizarre dispute between two different federal courts about how to fix Louisiana’s racially gerrymandered congressional maps.” He writes about the history of these consolidated cases, Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, and what is at stake.
Also covered by: CNN
John Fritze reports that on Monday the Supreme Court “ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at the case of a death row inmate in Alabama whom lower courts found has an intellectual disability.”
Bloomberg: Supreme Court Agrees to Review Deadline for Deportation Appeals
Lydia Wheeler reports that on Monday the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by Pierre Riey, “a Jamaican native who’s lived in New York for nearly 30 years and says he’s likely to be killed by someone who’s murdered several members of his family if he returns to Jamaica.” The case could decide whether “federal appeals courts can review appeals from non-citizens claiming they’ll be killed or tortured if deported that are filed more than 30 days after a removal order is issued.”
General
CNN: South Carolina executes death row inmate despite pleas from jurors and a judge to spare his life
Andy Rose, John Fritze and Emma Tucker report that on Friday evening, South Carolina carried out the execution of Richard Moore. On Thursday, the Supreme Court declined Moore’s “request to halt his lethal injection over his claim prosecutors unjustly excluded Black people from the all-White jury that convicted him.”
Supreme Court News - Video - November 4, 2024
U.S. Supreme Court rejects GOP’s bid to block Pennsylvania’s provisional ballots | CBS News
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