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Over the next month and a half, Extemp Central will provide R&Ds on the topic areas for the 2022 NSDA National Tournament. USX topic areas will have R&Ds posted on Tuesday & Thursday and IX topic areas will have R&Ds posted on Tuesday & Friday. This is meant to help extempers assemble resources to prepare for the competition in Louisville. This week we tackle USX topic area #7 on the Judicial Branch.
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade, the next concern is that other rights might, by implication, be discredited and destabilised https://t.co/ZSoWuPa7uk
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) June 1, 2022
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman to be elevated to the pinnacle of the judicial branch. https://t.co/MWnhMK7slS
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 8, 2022
Denying quorum to avoid constitutional calamity may set a troubling precedent, but at least the Supreme Court would survive. https://t.co/jdp4sRdVnH
— Slate (@Slate) June 1, 2022
A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms from censoring users based on their viewpoints https://t.co/kT0L255DhR
— TIME (@TIME) June 1, 2022
Clerks asked for phone records in Supreme Court probe: report https://t.co/KZsdC4JLQY pic.twitter.com/qdv8xZ8fSC
— The Hill (@thehill) June 1, 2022
From @WSJopinion: A century after bowing to FDR’s court-packing threat, the federal judiciary may be recovering the self-confidence to enforce the Constitution’s limits on government power, writes Mario Loyola https://t.co/xJ9d3ZlwjR
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 23, 2022
Mitch McConnell says blocking then-President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court in 2016 is his single greatest accomplishment.https://t.co/9PbTaBfqxK
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) June 1, 2022
Childs, who was one of several Black women on a shortlist for President Biden’s first Supreme Court nomination, had the backing of all Democrats and most Republicans on the panel for a spot on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. https://t.co/XihyCzAoQC
— Roll Call (@rollcall) May 26, 2022
Seven years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, business owners and LGBTQ rights groups remain locked in a battle over whether businesses may reject LGBTQ couples as customers based on religious objections.https://t.co/urjjlbV9xI
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) June 1, 2022
“Why are Supreme Court votes and processes so hidden in the first place? How did this grip on secrecy become so sacrosanct? And why is a leaked draft opinion an ‘affront’ to the court, as Chief Justice John Roberts asserted?” #NYTLetters https://t.co/9IHhs3ZVap
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) May 10, 2022