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‘Heartbreaking’: Justice Sotomayor cites rise in LGTBQ+ discrimination in dissent to SCOTUS ruling

Saturday, July 1 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused the U.S. Supreme Court of granting businesses the right "to refuse to serve members of a protected class" for the first time in its history.The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday in favor of a evangelical Christian...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasts ‘let-them-eat-cake obliviousness’ in Supreme Court affirmative action dissent

Thursday, June 29 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court's conservative majority of a "let-them-eat-cake obliviousness" on the issue of race in its landmark ruling on affirmative action.The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the way Harvard University and the University of North Carolina use...

McCaul accepts State Department offer for Congress to review Afghanistan ‘dissent cable’

Thursday, May 18 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, R-Texas, accepted the State Department's latest offer to review a classified communication sent by American diplomats during the final days of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, at least temporarily ending a standoff where he threatened...

State Department relents, will allow Congress to review Afghanistan ‘dissent cable’

Wednesday, May 17 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Amid intensifying pressure from House Republicans, the State Department said Wednesday it will allow select members of Congress to review a classified communication sent by American diplomats during the final days of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, marking a significant reversal in the...

Breyer invokes Uvalde, Buffalo in dissent on Supreme Court’s gun rights ruling

Thursday, June 23 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Justice Stephen Breyer invoked the nation’s latest gun violence massacres, including those at Uvalde and Buffalo, in his dissent against the Supreme Court’s ruling to expand the Second Amendment on Thursday.The 6-3 ruling struck down a New York state gun law that...

US diplomats warned of Afghanistan’s collapse in dissent cable last month

Friday, August 20 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. diplomats at the embassy in Kabul warned in a classified memo to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the department's leadership last month that the Afghan government was at risk of collapse as the Taliban offensive swept across the country, a...

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