TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ASKS FOR SCOTUS RESPONSE TO TEEN ABORTION | Tribe Calls For End To Death Penalty | Breyer Salutes A Late Great
November 3, 2017
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
|Today the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to wipe away a lower court opinion from last week that allowed a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant to get an abortion. Although the teen has already gotten the procedure, the Justice Department says it’s concerned the ruling might set a precedent for similarly situated women in the future. The Department also told justices that discipline could be warranted for the ACLU lawyers representing the teen, accusing them of providing misleading information about the timing of her abortion and thwarting the government’s ability to ask SCOTUS to stop the procedure from taking place.
TOP-ED – DOWN WITH THE DEATH PENALTY
|MORE THAN JUST A MAN
|“To describe Bill simply as a lawyer and public servant would be misleading. He was an American of color who grew up at a time when that meant hardship and humiliation at the hands of a society that embraced invidious discrimination and legalized segregation. It was a world where his Philadelphia high school would disband the swim team rather than have him as a member; where he could not enter a U.S. Army officers club because of his race; where in our nation’s capital he struggled to find a restaurant where he could have lunch with his fellow Supreme Court law clerks; where, despite his prodigious abilities, he had difficulty finding an initial job—and more and much worse beside. What was Bill Coleman’s reaction? Don’t agonize, just get down to work to rid our nation of this malignant disease. His method? Use what is best about America, its commitment to equal justice under law, to end what was worst about America, its blatant racial discrimination.” That’s JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER writing in The Wall Street Journal to salute the life and accomplishments of the late WILLIAM COLEMAN JR.
SCOTUS BOOKWORM
|Supreme Court JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR has a busy book schedule coming up, working on three different books aimed at younger audiences. She’s turning her best-selling memoir into a book for middle-schoolers and she will also collaborate with illustrator Lulu Delacre on a picture-book autobiography about books that have been important to her growing up. She and illustrator Rafael Lopez plan to come out with a picture book about “childhood differences” as well.