American Democracy Minute Radio News Report for March 4, 2026
March 2nd, the #U.S. #Supreme Court issued an #emergency #temporary #stay, #blocking a #NewYork #appealscourt #opinion upholding a #remedial #map for a New York City #congressional #district. #Voters had #argued the original map #diluted #minority voting power under the New York #Constitution.

🎧 𝟗𝟎-𝐒𝐞𝐜. 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧, 📖 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝, 🔗 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 📣 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬

https://www.americandemocracyminute.org/wethepeople/2026/03/03/u-s-supreme-court-issues-temporary-stay-of-ny-appeals-court-remedial-map-restoring-black-latino-voting-power-in-nyc-congressional-district/

Homey don't play that tune! Time to start cutting Tariff refund checks!

A federal appeals court refused to delay implementation of the Supreme Court ruling that invalidated most of U.S. Administration tariffs, clearing the way for the U.S. Court of International Trade, to begin the process of crafting relief for the small businesses impacted by tariffs.

Rock Star lawyer Neal Katyal, one of the attorneys representing the small businesses before SCOTUS, said his team "will be proceeding immediately to get the refunds Americans are owed." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-appeals-court-rejects-trump-tariff-refund-delay-supreme-court/ #Tariff #Refunds #TariffRefunds #SCOTUS #NealKatyal #Appealscourt #Lawsuit #FederalTradeCourt

Appeals Court Allows Louisiana's Ten Commandments Law in Schools to Proceed

Louisiana schools can now display the Ten Commandments after a court decision lifted a ban. The law faces further challenges.

#LouisianaLaw, #TenCommandments, #SchoolLaw, #AppealsCourt, #EducationPolicy

https://newsletter.tf/louisiana-schools-can-display-ten-commandments-after-appeals-court-lifts-ban/

A court has allowed Louisiana schools to display the Ten Commandments, reversing an earlier ban. This law was first put in place in 2025.

#LouisianaLaw, #TenCommandments, #SchoolLaw, #AppealsCourt, #EducationPolicy

https://newsletter.tf/louisiana-schools-can-display-ten-commandments-after-appeals-court-lifts-ban/

Military ban on HIV-positive enlistees could set dangerous precedent, experts warn

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/defense-department-hiv-positive-enlistees

Bitsoffreedom is fighting Meta in court over your rights to own your timeline and not have it influenced by parties you do not want to follow.

BitsofFreedom can you use your support! You can donate so they can afford to go to court and defend your privacy and freedom on the Internet!

See: https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2026/01/22/liveblog-hoger-beroep-meta-26-januari/

#donate #support #bitsoffreedom #fightingMeta #appealscourt #DSA #europeanlaws #timeline #instagram #facebook

A Ninth Circuit ruling on faith-based hiring clarifies how the First Amendment’s church autonomy doctrine limits state interference, with implications extending beyond Christianity to Pagan and other minority religious organizations.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/01/ninth-circuit-opinion-faith-based-hiring-conditionally-ok-beyond-clergy.html

#pagan #witchcraft #churchandstate #firstamendment #hiringpractices #appealscourt #churchautonomydoctrine #EmploymentDiscrimination

"President Trump has found a powerful but obscure bulwark in the appeals court judges he appointed during his first term. They have voted overwhelmingly in his favor when his administration’s actions have been challenged in court in his current term, a New York Times analysis of their 2025 records shows.

Time and again, appellate judges chosen by Mr. Trump in his first term reversed rulings made by district court judges in his second, clearing the way for his policies and gradually eroding a perception early last year that the legal system was thwarting his efforts to amass presidential power.

When Mr. Trump criticized a ruling from a so-called “Obama judge” in 2018, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. responded that “we do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.”

But the data suggests that in the 13 appellate courts, there is increasingly such a thing as a Trump judge. The president’s appointees voted to allow his policies to take effect 133 times and voted against them only 12 times. Ninety-two percent of their total votes were in favor of the administration. That figure far outstrips support for Mr. Trump’s agenda from appeals court judges appointed by other Republican presidents, and from Mr. Trump’s appointees to the district courts.

The Times analyzed every judicial ruling on Mr. Trump’s second-term agenda, from Jan. 20 to Dec. 31 of last year, or more than 500 orders issued across 900 cases. About half of rulings at the appellate level were in Mr. Trump’s favor — better than his performance with the district courts, though worse than his record at the Supreme Court, where the rulings on his agenda have almost all been on a preliminary basis in response to emergency applications."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/trumps-appeals-court-judges.html

#USA #Trump #Justice #AppealsCourt

Appeals court mulls upholding ruling that struck down Pentagon’s HIV enlistment ban

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/lambda-legal-hiv-military-ban