Last week, the U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Melissa DuBose to the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island, making her the first person of color and the first openly LGBTQ judge to serve on this Court.
Judge DuBose is also the 100th Black woman ever confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship in the United States.
Making history during Women’s History Month? Period! 👩🏾⚖️🏛️🤩
What can we do about a Supreme Court packed with corrupt extremists?
To be fair, some Dems have made an effort to expand the court. In 2023, a group of senators and representatives including Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, Cori Bush, and Adam Schiff reintroduced legislation to increase the number of justices to 13. Schiff made the case eloquently:
Schiff, a congressman from California, said: “This is not a conservative court, not in a legal sense. A conservative court would have some respect for precedent. This is instead a political and partisan court with a reactionary social agenda and the only question, Mitch McConnell having packed the court, is will we do anything about it or will we subject an entire generation of Americans to the loss of their rights?
“Dirtier air and dirtier water and dirtier elections? Is that the fate we would have for the next generation? My kids are both in their early 20s and I am not satisfied that they should have to live under a reactionary supreme court for their entire adult lives and I don’t want anyone else’s kids to have to suffer that fate.”
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SOOOOOO we know that the cover of ACOWAR represents Azriel and Elain. The cover has truthteller in the front and shadows swarmed upon it and it sort of shapes a rose. Yes yes very cute!
But why does no one talk about the ACOFAS cover?
Its a flower. Duh.
And who loves flowers? That´s right our girl Elain Archeron. Some people will call ,me delusional but is that not a sun in the middle? As in Sunlight? Now why would ACOFAS have a flower and a sun?? What represents a sun in the acotar series?
TAKE A WILD GUESS
THAT´S RIGHT THE DAY COURT! Who is connected to the day court? That´s right our man Lucien Vanserra. Also we figure that out in the book before this one.
My guess is that our girl will finally be free from the Night court and those disgusting inner circle although Cassians okay. I see the cover of ACOWAR. I do. Although to ME that is more like CANON like already happened and its a done done thing. The cover of ACOFAS seems like strong foreshadowing to me. Considering the book after this novella states that Elain does not belong in the Night court.
In 2024, the Courts are on the ballot across the country! 👩🏾⚖️🏛️⚖️
For example: Redistricting was on the ballot in the Wisconsin State Supreme Court election last year. After Judge Janet Protasiewicz was elected, Wisconsin has fair legislative maps after a decade of the most gerrymandered districts in the country!
The Courts are on the ballot this year — so don’t sit out on the upcoming elections. Start by registering to vote NOW at weall.vote/register and remind three friends to do the same.
Relying on the Glucksburg Test, named after the precedent set in Dobbs, will likely scare many people seeking constitutional protections. This test focuses on whether rights are "deeply rooted in this nation’s history and traditions" to determine constitutional protections. However, many fundamental rights we recognize today, such as privacy, intimate relations at home, access to contraception, interracial and same-sex marriage, are not deeply ingrained in American history. Conversely, practices like the usurpation of indigenous lands, school segregation, stringent gender-specific dress codes, and Jim Crow laws are deeply embedded in our past.
6th Circuit Judges Cite Dobbs Abortion Ruling To Uphold TN Trans Care Ban
Over the course of years in the 1970s, several boys between the ages of eight and fourteen in St. Martinville, Louisiana, were repeatedly sexually assaulted by their parish priest, suffering serious physical and emotional trauma. Like most child sexual abuse survivors, they did not disclose the abuse until they were in their fifties and sixties. Recognizing the developmental and emotional difficulties preventing survivors from disclosing childhood abuse, in 2021, the Louisiana legislature unanimously passed the Louisiana Child Victims Act, which provided a three-year “look-back window” allowing survivors to file lawsuits that would otherwise be barred by the statute of limitations. The law, versions of which have been passed in about half of states, finally allowed the St. Martinville survivors to sue the church and diocese that harbored their abuser.
Enter the Louisiana Supreme Court. In an opinion written by Justice James Genovese and published on March 22, the court found an absolute property right in the institutions’ right not to be sued. The Louisiana Child Victims Act, wrote Genovese, “cannot be retroactively applied to revive plaintiffs’ prescribed causes of action,” since that would “divest defendants of their vested right to plead prescription”—to defend themselves by asserting that the statute of limitations had run. The decision essentially strikes down the look-back window, leaving survivors once again powerless to hold their abusers accountable. It is a harrowing example of the legal system’s ability to obscure the nature of disputes and turn survivors’ real-life trauma into euphemistic abstractions, while at the same time protecting powerful institutions in the name of otherwise ephemeral property rights.