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Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.

We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.

https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-supreme-connections-database-new-filings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Nobel Lecture, 2005, Harold Pinter] Art, Truth & Politics
https://persagen.org/docs/harold_pinter-art_truth_and_politics.html

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ #AmericanReich #HerrTrump
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism

#transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

#capitalism #billionaires #inequality
#DemocraticSocialism #justice #sustainability

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NEW: What to Know About Mail-In Voting for the 2026 Midterms
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The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from imposing new rules on mail-in voting before the November midterm elections. That means nothing has changed for voters — and mail-in voting can proceed as planned.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mail-in-voting-rules-midterm-elections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #MailVoting #Election #Midterms #Vote #Voting #Democracy

Adrian Carrasquillo: #tRump Lost on #Birthright Citizenship. But He’s Winning the #Immigration Wars. #SCOTUS rejected his brazen constitutional gambit—but cleared the way for potentially the largest revocation of legal immigration status in #American history.

#law
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-lost-on-birthright-citizenship-but-winning-immigration-wars

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NEW - A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification

ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/supreme-court-shadow-docket-rulings-milestone?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #SCOTUS #Law #SupremeCourt #Legal #Trump #Data #Research

In our magazine, the latest from Texas Observer cartoonist Ben Sargent.

Read more from our July/August 2026 issue: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/july-august-2026/

#SCOTUS #comics #racism #politics #USpol

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For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court.

Watch us break down how a once-rare emergency process became the norm.
https://www.propublica.org/article/supreme-court-shadow-docket-explainer?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Law #Courts #Transparency #Video #Explainer