The Supreme Court’s emergency procedural docket has become a routine request for President Donald Trump. The docket — referred to as the “shadow docket”— is a powerful yet controversial tool...
Voting equality is an essential pillar of racial justice, being hard-won and maintained. After the passing of the 15th Amendment in 1869, which banned race-based voter discrimination, African Americans...
The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case that leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively punishes protest organizers with financial consequences if any participant commits an illegal...
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a Code of Conduct to govern themselves on Nov. 13. This is the first Code of Ethics ever implemented on the high court after its justices fell under scrutiny for accepting...
Allana Llabres, Assistant Social Media Manager
• November 21, 2023
On Monday, Nov. 13, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) announced that a code of conduct was being put into effect. This was in response to increasing criticism regarding perceived ethical...
The Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in higher education institutions on June 29, reversing decades of precedent used in admissions processes since 1978.
UTSA President Taylor Eighmy has...
After spending nearly 23 years in prison, Adnan Syed is now a free man. Syed, the subject of the hit podcast “Serial,” was convicted in 2000 for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee. According to NPR, his...
When we initially began writing this co-op piece, the majority draft leak intending to overturn the landmark civil rights case Roe v. Wade had just been released. Now that the decision has continued, Roe...
Bella Nieto, Assistant News Editor
• October 20, 2020
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ushered in movements of grief and outrage, both because of the loss of an icon for feminism and the Trump administration’s politicization of Ginsburg’s passing....
The Trump administration is making headway on their aggressive anti-immigration stance after a 5-4 Supreme Court decision, on Monday, Jan. 27, in favor of implementing a new public charge rule that would...
‘Confirm Kavanaugh’
UTSA’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) held a protest in front of the McKinney Humanities Building on Oct. 4 to express their views on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s...
On Saturday, Oct 6, the United States Senate voted (50-48) to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh as the 114th Supreme Court Justice after an FBI investigation concluded they could not find any sufficient evidence...
