Settled legal precedent in the US is not “gospel” and in some instances may have been “something somebody dreamt up and others went along with”, the US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas has said.

Thomas – part of the conservative supermajority that has taken hold of the supreme court over Donald Trump’s two presidencies – delivered those comments Thursday at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law in Washington DC, ABC News and other outlets reported. His remarks preceded the nine-month term that the supreme court is scheduled to begin on 6 October.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/clarance-thomas-precedence-supreme-court-docket

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The 9-0 decision rejects that members of a majority group must show “background circumstances” in addition to the normal requirements to prove a claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.

“We conclude that Title VII does not impose such a heightened standard on majority-group plaintiffs,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, former President Biden’s sole appointee to the court, wrote for the court.

Marlean Ames, who worked for the Ohio Department of Youth Services for two decades, sued under the landmark law over claims she was passed over for a promotion and demoted in favor of gay colleagues.

Ames appealed to the Supreme Court after lower judges ruled in favor of Ohio, finding Ames hadn’t shown proven “background circumstances” that indicate hers is the unusual case where an employer is discriminating against the majority.

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Source: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5334394-supreme-court-reverse-discrimination-lawsuit/

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A two-paragraph Supreme Court order is upending the lives of some 350,000 Venezuelan migrants who have been allowed to live and work in the U.S. with special legal protection from deportation.

The court’s order Monday allows the Trump administration to strip Temporary Protected Status from the group of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans as a legal case on the matter continues.

Attorneys representing the TPS holders said the Supreme Court’s brief order raises questions, including exactly when the 350,000 Venezuelans will lose their legal protections.

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Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/venezuelans-supreme-court-trump-ruling-tps-what-expect-rcna207912

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WASHINGTON — Conservative members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday leaned toward allowing Oklahoma to approve the first-ever religious public charter school in a case that could weaken the separation of church and state.

While several conservative justices expressed support for the school’s arguments, Chief Justice John Roberts emerged during the more than two-hour argument as a potentially decisive vote.

There is the possibility of a 4-4 split, as one justice, conservative Amy Coney Barrett, is not participating. That outcome would preserve an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that blocked the proposed school.

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Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-considers-endorsing-countrys-first-religious-public-char-rcna203328

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In a bitterly divided decision, the court said the administration must give Venezuelans who it claims are gang members “reasonable time” to go to court.

But the conservative majority said the legal challenges must take place in Texas, instead of a Washington courtroom.

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Source: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-deportations-el-salvador-9988b667199e1b02fc0a6a83570225c1

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“Big win for our constitution and democracy,” he posted on Truth Social. “Proud to be an American!”

While Trump did not get the sweeping protections that he and his lawyers had sought, he got more than enough to achieve his immediate objective of delaying another trial until after November’s election.

The ruling from the six conservative justices dealt a serious blow to the federal criminal case against him on charges of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c903q4yq4deo

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The justices ruled 6-3 to set aside lower court decisions against fishing companies that challenged a government-run program partly funded by industry that monitored overfishing of herring off New England’s coast. It marked the latest decision in recent years powered by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority that hemmed in the authority of federal agencies.

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In the report published by the Associated Press on Tuesday, the outlet also raises questions concerning Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s use of court staff to coordinate book sales.

“The Judicial Code of Ethics encourages judges to stay connected to community activities and to engage with the public, including by writing on both legal and nonlegal subjects,” Patricia McCabe, the Supreme Court’s public information officer, told the AP in a statement, adding that the justices “routinely travel and speak to university, college and law school audiences and affiliated individuals and entities.”

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Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/politics/supreme-court-ethics/index.html

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In a 9-0 decision in the case Groff v. DeJoy, the Supreme Court clarified the precedent used to decide religious accommodations in the workplace, expanding them and sending this case back to the lower courts in light of the ruling.

In the 1977 ruling Trans World Airlines v. Hardison, the court said employers need not make religious accommodations for an employee should doing so impose even a small burden on the employer, or as Title VII says, imposes an “undue hardship.” The justices felt this language was unclear.

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Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/the-supreme-court-unanimously-expands-religious-protections-for-workers

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The 6-3 ruling effectively cancels the plan, which would have forgiven about $10,000 (£7,800) per borrower – and up to $20,000 in some cases.

But the plan has been in limbo since some conservative states sued, arguing the president overstepped his authority. The Supreme Court agreed.

The decision affects the loans of more than 40 million Americans.

In the wake of the decision, US media reported that President Biden is expected to announce new actions to protect borrowers later on Friday. In a statement, Mr Biden said that “the fight is not over” and that he believed that the ruling was “wrong”.

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