Axios: The court reigns supreme

The court reigns supreme
 
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The Supreme Court spent its latest term sidelining Congress and amassing power for itself and the presidency, Axios’ Andrew Pantazi writes.

After the term that ended this week, Congress can no longer insulate regulators from the president, limit political parties’ spending, or require race-conscious voting districts.

The justices overturned precedents, second-guessed Congress and brushed aside facts found by lower courts.

Georgetown Law professor Steve Vladeck tells Axios: “The real headlineof the current term is, ‘Supreme Court rules for itself, 6–3.'”

⚖️ Some of the court’s most notable recent decisions:

Choosing which parts of the FTC to keep (the powers Congress gave it) and which to shed (the independence Congress designed).

Making it nearly impossible to use the Voting Rights Act to challenge maps diluting Black and Latino voting power.

Striking down limits on coordinated political party spending (which it had upheld in 2001).

Curbing Congress’ power to make state officials pay damages for violating federal funding laws.

Letting President Trump keep withholding $4 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid, at least for now.

Reality check: The president didn’t win everything this term.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote all three major rulings against Trump: blocking emergency tariffs, sparing Fed governor Lisa Cook (for now), and rejecting the executive order ending birthright citizenship.

What’s next: Trump’s biggest defeat doubled as the term’s loudest warning.

Four justices were willing to say that Trump’s birthright citizenship order didn’t violate the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to all those born in the country.

Georgetown’s Vladeck says the fact that a position deemed “outlandish as recently as a decade ago” got four votes will “embolden” the next wave of once-fringe constitutional arguments.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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