Love of the Game
In sports news, the Boston Celtics enjoy a lead over the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA finals, and the Florida Panthers look to shut out the Edmonton Oilers for the Stanley Cup. The U.S. women’s Olympic basketball lineup was announced with Brittney Griner and Diana Taurasi making the cut, but Caitlin Clark (controversially) did not. The Euro 2024 football (soccer) championship begins this week, with Germany facing off against Scotland on Friday. Finally, the basketball world mourned the death of player, coach, and executive Jerry West, who was so much a part of the game that his silhouette inspired the NBA logo.
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Order in the Court
The U.S. Supreme Court is prepared to issue consequential rulings from its 2023–24 term in the coming days. Today serves a reminder that the rulings from the court—and those who make those rulings—help shape American society.
A historic nomination
On June 13, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to be a Supreme Court justice. Marshall would be confirmed later that summer as the first Black justice on the court. Marshall was no stranger to the court, having successfully argued the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which declared unconstitutional racial segregation in American public schools, before that same court more than a decade earlier.
“You have the right…”
For almost 60 years, the reading of rights to criminal suspects has been a staple of television and movie dramas. That is the case because of a June 13, 1966, Supreme Court ruling in the case of Miranda v. Arizona that suspects must know their rights before facing questioning by police.
The justices who serve
The names of Supreme Court justices often make their way into the history books for the wisdom of their rulings (think John Marshall and the principle of judicial review) or the lack thereof (think Roger Taney and the Dred Scott decision, which stated in 1857 that African Americans were not citizens). In recent years current justices have found themselves in headlines not only for their rulings but for their behavior off the bench, including Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
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