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It's Time For Lawmakers to Listen to Courts


It's Time For Lawmakers to Listen to Courts: Your Law Regulating ...

Despite a long history of courts ruling that government efforts to regulate speech online harm all internet users and interfere with their First Amendment ...

The Courts Begin to Call Out Lawmakers - The New York Times

In recent abortion and voter ID cases, courts have looked at what lawmakers are really doing, not what they say they are doing.

North Carolinians want the legislature's judicial attacks to end. It's ...

It's time for lawmakers to listen. By: Jen Jones ... And, the 2018 judicial primary was canceled to allow legislators more time ... courts; but many ...

AI and the Courts Will Factor in Next Year's Election Laws

Forecast '25: Other top issues for 2025 include noncitizen voting, ranked choice voting and anything related to election officials. By NCSL ...

Promote Fair Courts | Brennan Center for Justice

The right to a fair day in court is under threat. Judicial elections are awash in money, while lawmakers have sought to rein in judges whose rulings they ...

Congressman Johnson Leads House Members Launching Court ...

With Supreme Court Mired in Ethical Lapses, Right-Wing Activism and All-Time Low Approval Ratings, House Members Create Court Reform Task ...

Audio Streaming Pilot | United States Courts

Approved district courts, bankruptcy courts, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the U.S. Court of International Trade participated in a pilot program to ...

State Legislative Sessions: How They Impact Your Rights | ACLU

State legislation is crucially connected to our civil liberties, and can either expand our rights or chip away at them.

A Conversation with Justice Stephen Breyer - Bolch Judicial Institute

Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer talks with David F. Levi about themes from his latest book, The Authority of the Court and the Peril ...

Congress and the Separation of Powers | U.S. Capitol - Visitor Center

Why does the U.S. Constitution separate the government into three branches? At the nation's founding, the Constitution's framers understood that executive, ...

The Supreme Court Is Not Supposed to Have This Much Power

Contrary to what many people have come to believe, judicial supremacy is not in the Constitution, and does not date from the founding era.

5 Ways the Supreme Court Could Roll Back Rights and Damage ...

The Supreme Court's right-wing majority could deal a major setback to affirmative action, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, and fair elections as it wraps up the ...

Legislative Assaults on State Courts in 2023

State lawmakers passed bills that made partisan changes to judicial selection, manipulated venue rules, and politicized judicial ethics.

Supreme Court Procedures | United States Courts

Most of the cases the Supreme Court hears are appeals from lower courts. Writs of Certiorari. Parties who are not satisfied with the decision of a lower court ...

Congressional Court Watcher: Recent Appellate Decisions of ...

July 8, 2024. The federal courts issue hundreds of decisions every week in cases involving diverse legal disputes. This. Sidebar series selects decisions ...

Reform Congress, Not the Court - Harvard Law Review |

Public approval of the Supreme Court has fallen to historic lows.Katy Lin & Carroll Doherty, Favorable Views of Supreme Court Fall to ...

The Court and Constitutional Interpretation - Supreme Court

The Court is the highest tribunal in the Nation for all cases and controversies arising under the Constitution or the laws of the United States.

How Courts Oversee Ballot Initiatives - State Court Report

State courts — and to some degree federal courts — play a significant role in every stage of the direct democracy process.

How Much Power Should the Courts Have? - The New York Times

Another amendment curtailed judicial review — the power of the Constitutional Court to examine and overrule the decisions of the elected ...

Tips for Communicating With Legislators | American Battlefield Trust

Legislators appreciate hearing from their constituents. Don’t forget: they are elected to represent YOUR views. Here are some tips for talking to your ...