Biden s Supreme Court Commission holds first meeting amid growing calls to expand the court By Melissa Quinn How likely are reforms to the Supreme Court?
Washington President Biden s commission tasked with studying potential reforms to the Supreme Court is set to gather for the first time Wednesday as pressure to expand the number of seats on the high court grows following its decision to hear a blockbuster abortion dispute in its next term.
Mr. Biden formed the commission through executive order last month to examine the contemporary commentary and debate about the role of the high court, as well as arguments for and against Supreme Court reform, including proposals to add seats to the high court.
Supreme Court declines to hear case involving racial slur in workplace By Melissa Quinn Supreme Court weighs teen s free speech case
Washington The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a legal battle involving one of the most offensive words in the English language, spurning a case raising whether its utterance in the workplace even one time creates a hostile work environment.
The justices turned away an appeal from Robert Collier, a Texas man who sued the hospital where he was employed. Collier said supervisors ignored complaints about a carving of the N-word on the wall of an elevator he and other hospital workers often used. In rejecting the case, a ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of the hospital remains intact.
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Idaho death row inmate asks Supreme Court to stop execution
By REBECCA BOONEMay 13, 2021 GMT
BOISE, Idaho (AP) An Idaho man scheduled for execution in three weeks is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the state from moving forward with his lethal injection while it reviews his case.
Attorneys for Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr. filed the request on Thursday, asking the nation’s highest court to review whether he would have been convicted if jurors had known about a secret meeting between court officials and attorneys for a co-defendant who later testified against Pizzuto. The request is likely a long shot it’s exceedingly rare for the Supreme Court to agree to consider an “extraordinary writ of habeas corpus” like the one filed in Pizzuto’s case.