Source: thepostmillennial.com 2/28/21 President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson once authored an unsigned “Note” in the Harvard Law Review arguing that America’s judicial system is “unfair” to sexual predators, according to findings discovered by an American Accountability Foundation investigation. Jackson argued the unconstitutionality of certain preventative measures adopted as common practices by state governments and applied to confirmed sex offenders. Per the Harvard Law Review article “Prevention Versus Punishment: Toward a Principled Distinction in the Restraint of Released Sex Offenders,” she argued that America’s judicial approaches…
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Janice’s Journal: Educating the U.S. Supreme Court
How can we educate the U.S. Supreme Court when they refuse to listen? One way is to make noise at their place of business so that they can no longer ignore us. That is the foundation for the plan announced yesterday to hold a vigil on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on March 7, 2023, near to the 20th anniversary of the Court’s infamous decision, Smith v. Doe. In that decision, the Court made a terrible a mistake, a mistake that has caused and continues to cause significant…
Read MoreSupreme Court rule: (Other) justices shouldn’t conduct independent research
[washingtonpost.com] During last week’s Supreme Court arguments about crisis pregnancy centers, Justice Sonia Sotomayor introduced a long line of questions by saying she had recently visited the website of one of the clinics that is a party to the suit. Eventually, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy broke in to ask his own question, but not before tossing a grenade Sotomayor’s way. “Well, in this case I didn’t go beyond the record to look on the Internet because I don’t think we should do that, but I do have a hypothetical,” Kennedy…
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