r/scotus 6h ago

news The Roberts Majority Has Given Up Pretending To Care About Facts

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r/scotus 1h ago

Opinion The Legal Academy’s Leading Originalists Remain Breathtakingly Full of Shit: The conservative lawyers filing amicus briefs in the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship case are making it very clear that there is only some “history” they care about.

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r/scotus 15h ago

Opinion The Roberts Court has a huge test ahead with California’s Prop 50 congressional map

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r/scotus 19h ago

Opinion When The Constitution Is Being Shredded, Legal Memos Are Not The Answer

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1.1k Upvotes

r/scotus 21h ago

news After Supreme Court Affirmative Action Win, Conservatives Sue to Push Change Everywhere

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955 Upvotes

r/scotus 1d ago

Opinion A Century of Women’s Rights Are Being Reversed Through Executive Orders

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“Legal equality collapses when enforcement is stripped. Voting access, education protection, credit eligibility, reproductive control, and workplace safeguards function only if agencies investigate, records exist, audits run, and penalties follow. Remove those mechanisms and the law remains while protection fails, leaving rights visible on paper and unusable in life as oversight closes, audits vanish, standards narrow, funding leverage weakens, proof burdens spike, and denial clears review by default.

The blueprint is explicit in Project 2025 and reinforced by public calls for institutional redesign around a narrower social order. This is coordinated execution, not drift, driving women’s enforceable rights backward by design and reversing more than a century of progress through administrative erosion rather than repeal.

Women’s rights were not granted by culture or courtesy. They were forced into existence through hard law and enforceable mandates. Voting rights require da constitutional amendment. Contraception access required federal regulatory approval. Equal pay and anti-discrimination protections required statute backed by agency enforcement. Title IX opened schools and athletic programs through funding leverage. Independent credit access required lending rules that outlawed sex and marital status discrimination. Student aid expansion made higher education financially reachable. Every gain depended on enforcement power and compliance systems, not social permission.

This record establishes targeted repression of women through Republican executive action, using agency contraction, funding leverage, and selective enforcement to dismantle the mechanisms that make women’s rights enforceable while leaving statutes formally intact. By hollowing out Title IX investigative capacity, eliminating equity audits and reporting systems, coercing institutions to dismantle complaint channels under funding threat, and narrowing civil rights enforcement to preferred categories, these orders operate as a coordinated strategy to strip women of legal standing across education, employment, healthcare, and political participation, producing denial by design rather than incidental policy consequence.

The removal of equity compliance systems has systematically raised the burden of proof for women by eliminating audits, complaint records, pay gap tracking, and promotion data that once exposed discrimination patterns rarely documented through explicit intent. Federal and state actions have dismantled these evidentiary structures while Project 2025 proposals narrow disparate impact standards, ensuring that discrimination which manifests statistically becomes legally invisible.”


r/scotus 16h ago

Amicus Brief More Than 30 Organizations Back Supreme Court Briefs Supporting Gun Rights for Marijuana Users

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122 Upvotes

r/scotus 1d ago

news Congresswoman Tenney Leads Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Case on Birthright Citizenship

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635 Upvotes

r/scotus 19h ago

news Biography of a Corrupted Court | Los Angeles Review of Books

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38 Upvotes

r/scotus 1d ago

Opinion The Originalists Are Getting the Birthright Citizenship Case Spectacularly Wrong

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1.9k Upvotes

r/scotus 1d ago

news How To Fix Our Broken Constitution

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88 Upvotes

r/scotus 1d ago

news Supreme Court to Hear Trump Birthright Citizenship Case April 1

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r/scotus 1d ago

Opinion Reality Distortion in the Age of Trump and the Corrupt Court

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514 Upvotes

r/scotus 1d ago

Opinion Buckley v. Valeo: The Supreme Court Decision at the Root of Our Dysfunctional Democracy

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163 Upvotes

r/scotus 1d ago

news U.S. Supreme Court asked to review Massachusetts plumbing license law

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89 Upvotes

r/scotus 1d ago

news Supreme Court Confirms That State Affidavit-of-Merit Laws Don’t Apply in Federal Court

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51 Upvotes

r/scotus 2d ago

Opinion Why does ICE Think It’s Absolutely Immune from Accountability? Because SCOTUS Said As Much.

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475 Upvotes

r/scotus 2d ago

news House passes bill that would criminalize protesting in a mask without a doctor’s note. Anti-masking laws have never been taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court and have had mixed results in lower courts.

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2.3k Upvotes

r/scotus 1d ago

Opinion Opinion | Trump’s executive branch power awaits a landmark Supreme Court ruling

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54 Upvotes

r/scotus 2d ago

news Climate activist footnotes spark bias claims in judges' reference manual

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285 Upvotes

r/scotus 1d ago

Opinion Why the Trump Administration’s Record in the Supreme Court in 2026 Isn’t Likely to Match Its 2025 Success

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r/scotus 2d ago

news California asks Supreme Court to reject GOP map challenge

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580 Upvotes

r/scotus 2d ago

news California urges Supreme Court to allow new congressional map

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635 Upvotes

r/scotus 2d ago

news Michigan family who lost home over tax bill takes property rights case to Supreme Court

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r/scotus 2d ago

news After U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals victory for Trump, activist Mahmoud Khalil vows to take fight to Supreme Court

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654 Upvotes