South Carolina US District Judge J. Michelle Childs is among the people President Joe Biden is considering as a Supreme Court nominee, the White House confirmed Friday night, and as a result there will not be a hearing on her nomination to the Court of Appeals while she is under consideration for the high court.

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Biden considers Judge J. Michelle Childs, among others, for Supreme Court

A U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday upheld California's net neutrality law, saying a 2017 decision by the Federal Communications Commission to reverse federal internet protections could not bar state action.

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U.S. appeals court upholds California net neutrality law

A lower court earlier this week had blocked the map’s use, saying it  discriminated against Black voters.

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Alabama Asks Supreme Court to Reinstate New Congressional Map

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said that President Biden’s forthcoming pick of the first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court in history will be a “beneficiary” of affirmative action, the Mississippi Free Press reports.Said Wicker: “The irony is that the Supreme Court is at the very time hearing cases about this sort of affirmative racial discrimination while adding someone who is the beneficiary of this sort of quota.

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Following Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement, the White House has already confirmed that President Biden will fulfill his campaign pledge to fill the Supreme Court seat with a Black woman. 

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With Supreme Court promise, Biden essentializes race and gender

A statewide court on Friday declared that Pennsylvania’s expansive two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, agreeing with challenges by Republicans who soured on mail-in voting after then-President Donald Trump began baselessly attacking it as rife with fraud in 2020′s campaign.

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Pennsylvania court strikes down expansive mail-in voting law

The president believed pressuring the court’s oldest justice to retire might backfire. A chorus of liberals took a different approach.



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As Breyer Pondered Retirement, Biden Bet on a Hands-Off Strategy

Alabama executed an inmate by lethal injection for a 1996 murder on Thursday after a divided U.S. Supreme Court sided with the state and rejected defense claims the man had an intellectual disability that cost him…

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Alabama inmate executed for 1996 murder after divided Supreme Court clears the way

"The View" got personal on two Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices on Thursday, saying Clarence Thomas "doesn’t really represent the Black community" and Amy Coney Barrett was appointed purely as a "White woman" who would overturn abortion rights.

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With the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at the end of the current term, one name keeps rising to the top of the list of potential replacements: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.



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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson eyed as potential replacement to Justice Stephen Breyer

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