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#supreme-court

A majority of Brazil's supreme court judges found the 70-year-old guilty on Thursday of masterminding a failed military coup designed to stop the leftwing winner of the 2022 election, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, taking office. Nowhere in the world has complete immunity against the virus of authoritarianism that creeps in insidiously, distilling its poison to contaminate freedoms and human rights, Justice Carmen Lucia Antunes Rocha told a courtroom in the capital, Brasilia, as she cast the deciding vote. Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison.

On Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts rewarded the Trump administration's lawless revocation of $4 billion in foreign aid by freezing a lower court order that had required the government to distribute the money. Roberts' intervention is an ominous indication that the full court may soon greenlight the president's "pocket rescission" of funds expressly appropriated by Congress. This decision would hand Donald Trump a sweeping spending power that the Constitution does not assign to him

If the Supreme Court reverses Obergefell and determines bans against marriage equality are not unconstitutional, states with laws protecting same-sex couples' right to marry would need to independently overturn their laws for it to be banned. Those with constitutional amendments protecting marriage equality would have to call a referendum vote to overturn them, and those protected by state Supreme Court rulings - the next highest authority after the U.S. Supreme Court -would need their state's court to agree to hear the case again.

A bushy-browed, pipe-smoking, piano-playing Antonin Scalia-Nino-the scourge of the left, knew how to work a crowd. He loved opera; he loved theater; he loved show tunes. In high school, he played the lead role in Macbeth: "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition." As clever as he was combative, Scalia, short and stocky, was known, too, for his slightly terrifying energy and for his eviscerating sense of humor. He fished and hunted: turkeys and ducks, deer and boar, alligators. He loved nothing better than a dictionary. He argued to win. He was one of the Supreme Court's sharpest writers and among its severest critics.

The US Supreme Court has paused a judge's order that required the administration of US President Donald Trump to promptly take steps to spend billions in Congressionally approved foreign aid. On Tuesday, one day after the government requested the emergency stay, the nation's highest court granted the request. Known as an administrative stay, the court's action gave the justices additional time to consider the administration's formal request to let it withhold some $4bn authorised by Congress ahead of a September 30 deadline.

On Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts once again narrowed the strike zone for separation of powers and the rule of law. He did so without explanation, but that's all right, because he says it's only for a little while. From the AP: Trump first moved to fire Rebecca Slaughter in the spring, but she sued and lower courts ordered her reinstated because the law allows commissioners to be removed only for problems like misconduct or neglect of duty.

The issue emerged at the height of Trump's attack on LA, when multiple citizens reported that ICE was rounding up anybody who was Latino, or looked Latino, for questioning. Racial profiling is unconstitutional (or was, until this morning) and people sued, including the named plaintiff in this case, Pedro Vasquez Perdomo. District Court Judge Maame E. Frimpong (a Biden appointee) issued an emergency injunction prohibiting the raids in July,

This week's dramatic court ruling that Donald Trump's sweeping trade tariffs, which he has used to upend global trade, were in fact illegal is the latest in a series of losses for the president's radical agenda that are ultimately heading for a final showdown in the US supreme court. Trump has already asked the supreme court to overturn the lower court ruling in the tariffs case.

Given this, however, the Court respectfully submits that it is unhelpful and unnecessary to criticize district courts for 'defy[ing]' the Supreme Court when they are working to find the right answer in a rapidly evolving doctrinal landscape, where they must grapple with both existing precedent and interim guidance from the Supreme Court that appears to set that precedent aside without much explanation or consensus.

In a series of rare interviews with NBC News, the judges discussed a pattern of the Supreme Court overturning lower court decisions by way of emergency rulings which, they say, used to be rare but have become increasingly common. The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to issue an emergency ruling in 23 cases, and the Court has sided with them in 17 of those instances often with little or no explanation to back their decisions.

The National Institutes of Health shouldn't cut off funding to 900 grants that the agency previously canceled and then had to restore thanks to a June court order, lawyers for the Department of Health and Human Services said last week. The Supreme Court recently overturned that court order, paving the way for NIH to once again cut off funding to the grants. However, the justices also kept in place a lower court order that found that NIH's directives for the grant terminations were unlawful.

"This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist," Jackson wrote. "Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this administration always wins."

India's top court has ordered the sterilisation of all stray dogs in the capital after an increase in bite cases. But the ruling has prompted broader debate: Does India even know how many strays it has? India's Supreme Court in early August issued a dramatic order calling for the removal of all stray dogs from the streets of the national capital, prompting outrage from animal rights activists.

On Monday evening, President Donald Trump opened up a new front in his campaign to take control of the Federal Reserve. He released a letter on social media purporting to fire Lisa Cook, a Joe Biden-appointed member of the Fed's seven-person board of governors. The letter is part of what appears to be a coordinated effort by the administration to fill a majority of the board with loyalists.

Citing the fictional sport from the watershed comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, Jackson wrote 'Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.' As a dissent in yet another shadow docket decision allowing the administration to take arbitrary and capricious action free from the constraints of either statute or judicial oversight, the Calvinball analogy hit home.

The far-right leader has been wearing an electronic ankle tag since mid-July and has been under house arrest since early August. But last Monday, the prosecutor general asked the supreme court to tighten surveillance of the 70-year-old, after federal police reported he had even drafted a request for political asylum in Argentina. In Tuesday's ruling, Justice Alexandre de Moraes agreed there was a risk of flight and ordered police to monitor Bolsonaro's Brasilia mansion 24 hours a day.