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Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for Covid-19, something that will force him to skip Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s investiture ceremony on Friday. After taking a test as part of regular protocols, Kavanaugh was informed on Thursday evening “that he had tested positive for Covid-19. He has no…

UPDATED with President Biden’s response: President Joe Biden knocked the Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold voting restrictions in Arizona today in a scathing statement citing “severe damage to two of the most important provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – a law that took years of struggle and strife to secure.&#8221…

A group of House and Senate Democrats are introducing legislation that would make it easier for plaintiffs to prove racial bias cases, keying in on language in civil rights law that was at the center of Byron Allen’s lawsuit against Comcast. The legislation, called the Economic Inclusion Civil Rights Act of 2021 and…

The Supreme Court has rejected the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, keeping in place the 11-year-old healthcare law that has expanded insurance coverage to millions. The justices ruled that those seeking to strike down the law’s individual mandate did not have standing to do so. The court…

The Supreme Court on Monday directed a lower court to toss out a lawsuit over whether Donald Trump violated the First Amendment when he blocked followers from his then-active Twitter account. Lower court rulings had found that such actions violated the First Amendment, but the justices found the case moot, as Trump is…

UPDATE, April 6, 8:29 AM: The Copyright Alliance, which represents content companies and creators, warned that the Supreme Court’s decision in favor of Google “has the potential” to broaden the fair use doctrine, something that would open the door to greater unauthorized use of copyrighted material. CEO Keith…

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the FCC was within its legal authority to relax a series of media ownership rules in 2017, when Republicans still held the majority on the commission. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh (read it here), the justices held that the FCC “made a reasonable…

Hustler founder Larry Flynt has died at 78. The Washington Post confirmed the news with his brother Jimmy. No cause of death was given. Flynt made his fortune with Hustler magazine and associated businesses, but he made a name for himself by challenging cultural norms. He unapologetically called himself “a…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday waded into a two-decade long debate over the extent to which the FCC can relax media ownership rules. At stake are recent FCC moves toward deregulation, allowing the common ownership of a newspaper and broadcast stations in the same market, as well as giving more leeway for media companies…

Major metropolitan areas could face the loss of considerable revenue if the US Supreme Court upholds a bid to restrict how states can tax workers who no longer commute. The Wall Street Journal <a…

UPDATE, 6:13 AM PT: President Donald Trump continued to rail against the Supreme Court’s rejection of a Texas lawsuit that sought to overturn the election results in favor of Joe Biden in four states. “WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!!” Trump tweeted. But he, his campaign and his supporters have all but run out of legal…

The Supreme Court weighed in on Trump supporters’ post-election challenge to Joe Biden’s victory, rejecting an effort to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of the results in that state. “The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied,” the court said in…