A.C.L.U. Asks Supreme Court to Let It Seek Secret Surveillance Court Rulings
A prominent Republican Ted Olson backed the request for high court review of a spy court ruling, which would be the first of its kind.
Theodore B. Olson, a solicitor general during President George W. Bush’s administration, previously defended part of a surveillance law Congress enacted after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.Credit.Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
April 19, 2021, 12:14 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON The American Civil Liberties Union asked the Supreme Court on Monday to unlock the doors to the nation’s foreign intelligence wiretapping court, arguing that Americans have a First Amendment right to ask its judges to disclose secret rulings affecting their privacy.
April 15, 2021 at 1:29 PM
Shares22
(Image via Getty)
President Joe Biden is about to preside over the fastest expansion of the federal prison population in history – as well as the cruelest and most unnecessary. His administration is on track to reincarcerate thousands of people that the Trump administration deemed low-risk and sent to home confinement when COVID-19 was spreading in the prisons. What in the world is the president thinking?
Some history: In March 2020, as the threat of COVID-19 became clearer, Congress passed legislation to provide emergency assistance to the states and individuals. The law included a smart, life-saving provision to allow the attorney general to expand the amount of time people in federal prison could spend on home confinement.
Republican and Democrats have slammed Joe Biden s announcement
They have said it is divisive , brainless , a radical left ploy and a power grab
Biden established commission to examine expanding the Supreme Court Friday
Move would wipe out conservative majority on the bench formed under Trump
Mitch McConnell said it was more evidence of the far-left s influence on Biden
Mitt Romney said it would forever diminish institutions at our foundation
Rep. Marsha Blackburn said Democrats will destroy institutions to seize power
Nikki Haley said: Court packing is undemocratic, divisive, and brainless
The panel of 36 legal scholars is made up of both liberals and conservatives
Liberals call for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire after he criticized court packing dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
April 09, 2021
President Biden will today issue an executive order forming the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, comprised of a bipartisan group of experts on the Court and the Court reform debate. In addition to legal and other scholars, the Commissioners includes former federal judges and practitioners who have appeared before the Court, as well as advocates for the reform of democratic institutions and of the administration of justice. The expertise represented on the Commission includes constitutional law, history and political science.
The Commission’s purpose is to provide an analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform, including an appraisal of the merits and legality of particular reform proposals. The topics it will examine include the genesis of the reform debate; the Court’s role in the Constitutional system; the length of service and turnover of justices on the Court; the