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Neil Gorsuch 'exchanged sharp words' with Jackson before Friday ruling: report

The day before Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett took a highly-criticized personal shot at Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, fellow conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch also sniped at his liberal colleague.

According to a report from Politico on increased tensions within the nation's highest court, as the 6-3 conservative majority continues to use the "shadow docket" to hand Donald Trump questionable wins, Politico is reporting that Brown Jackson's opinions, often in dissent, are getting under the skin of conservatives justices.

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'Knife's edge': Expert says judge gave Supreme Court 'gutsy challenge' via anti-Trump move

A federal judge in Boston who sided with Harvard University and ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2.2 billion in federal grants delivered a "gutsy challenge" to the U.S. Supreme Court and Trump, calling on lower courts to "safeguard academic freedom."

In the 84-page order, Judge Allison Burroughs calls the government's use of "combatting antisemitism" as a "smokescreen" for an "ideological assault" on universities, criticizing SCOTUS for its recent emergency rulings.

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Trump's 28 emergency appeals have created a civil war within court system: WSJ

Donald Trump’s constant boundary-pushing and seemingly unlawful, policy initiatives have created a previously unheard of schism between the lower courts and the Supreme Court, which has according to some experts has been giving him the benefit of the doubt through the use of the so-called “shadow docket.”

Trump appears to be testing how far he can go after the conservative-dominated court not only granted him blanket immunity, but has also come down on the side of the fringe legal theory of a unitary executive with almost unlimited powers.

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Trump ally under fire for racist attack at Hakeem Jeffries: 'White supremacist language'

Politico broke a story about a group of Young Republicans across several states making racist, sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic comments. Many of the individuals are working for elected officials or political groups, some of whom have been fired, and the Kansas Young Republicans has been shut down altogether. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) posted photos of two of the men in the chat standing with Republican officials.

A post on X shows Mike Davis, who runs the far-right legal group the Article III Project and once worked for Sen. Chuck Grassley, calling Jeffries a "house slave" for George Soros. The post, which has not been deleted, has led to backlash.

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Supreme Court conservatives decry case as 'troubling and tragic' — before dismissing it

The Donald Trump-allied group America First Legal was denied review of a civil case that alleged staff at a Colorado school failed to inform parents about an optional after-school club meeting — and the speakers and discussions it involved.

SCOTUS Blog describes the case as having to do with "whether a school district may discard the presumption that fit parents act in the best interests of their children and arrogate to itself the right to direct the care, custody, and control of their children."

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Trump increasingly angry as judges he hired hit him with 'stark rejections': report

Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated that some of the political initiatives of his second term are running into legal roadblocks — particularly as some of his judicial appointees are the ones running interference.

According to a report from Politico’s Kyle Cheney, Trump’s selections to the Supreme Court, Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, have been reliably siding with him on a series of short-term wins via the so-called “shadow docket,” but he continues to suffer setbacks from district judges he nominated to the bench — including one he put in place recently.

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Judge attacks Supreme Court for bending to Trump as he knocks back immigration order

A federal judge in Rhode Island has declared that President Donald Trump's policy of requiring states to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a condition of receiving disaster relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency is illegal and unconstitutional.

Then he went out of his way to throw a broadside at the Supreme Court in anticipation of it arbitrarily blocking the ruling.

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'We're out here flailing!' Supreme Court blasted for leaving judges in limbo

Frustrated federal judges blasted the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, calling the court out for its lack of guidance and saying judges "would just love to hear your reasoning as to why you rule that way," in a response to the high court’s curt emergency rulings.

In an unusual 80-minute venting session, Politico reports, the Richmond-based court openly debated Thursday on how to follow the terse guidance from the high court and continue their own duty to complete detailed rulings on cases.

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