The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> has petitioned for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> to intervene against restrictions imposed on the chemical abortion drug mifepristone, claiming that limits on the drug are &#8220;damaging for women and healthcare providers around the Nation.”
In a legal filing on Friday, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-administration-supreme-court-take-major-abortion-pill-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the high court should not uphold limits placed on mifepristone that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-appeals-court-makes-decision-on-the-mailing-of-abortion-pills" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were set forth</a> by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that would prohibit the distribution of the pills through the mail or prescribed via telemedicine. The limits placed on the drug cannot be implemented until the Supreme Court issues a ruling on the decision. 
&#8220;The effect of the lower court&#8217;s decisions would be to compel FDA to return to a pre-2016 regulatory regime that imposes restrictions on distribution that FDA has found to be unnecessary and unjustified,&#8221; the DOJ said in a cert petition. 
The DOJ said that mifepristone, used in up to half of all abortions, was &#8220;best method&#8221; to end the life of an unborn child early in development. 
Danco Laboratories, the manufacturer of a widely used abortion pill, also <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/drugmaker-brings-abortion-pill-fight-to-supreme-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a Friday legal filing that the Supreme Court should throw out the Fifth Circuit’s limits on the drug. 
“For the women and teenage girls, health care providers, and States that depend on FDA’s actions to ensure safe and effective reproductive health care is available, this case matters tremendously,” wrote Jessica Ellsworth, a lawyer representing Danco. “And for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, permitting judicial second-guessing of FDA’s scientific evaluations of data will have a wildly destabilizing effect.”
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom sued to stop the distribution and approval of the drug by the FDA. ADF lawyers have said that agency’s decision to approve mifepristone was political. 
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“The FDA’s unprecedented and unlawful actions did not reflect scientific judgment but rather revealed politically driven decisions to push a dangerous drug regimen without regard to women’s health or the rule of law. This is a significant victory for the doctors and medical associations we represent and, more importantly, the health and safety of women,” ADF Senior Counsel Erin Hawley said after the Fifth Circuit upheld restrictions of the drug last month. 
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case in its coming fall session after previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-releases-decision-on-abortion-pill-mifepristone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">putting a stay</a> on a broader federal judge order to fully suspend approval for the pill.

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The Democratic senator who suggested that the federal government <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sheldon-whitehouse-suggests-fbi-shouldnt-investigate-supreme-court-leaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not investigate</a> who leaked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade — citing &#8220;separation of powers&#8221; — is now pressuring Chief Justice John Roberts with an ethics complaint targeting Alito concerning congressional investigations into the Court.
Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse introduced Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal and Transparency Act in July.
Alito, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/samuel-alito-the-supreme-courts-plain-spoken-defender-precedent-ethics-originalism-5e3e9a7?st=4765zed61auy3j2&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speaking</a> to The Wall Street Journal, said he and the other justices on the court voluntarily followed disclosure statutes that applied to lower-court judges and executive-branch officials. He noted, “Congress did not create the Supreme Court”— the Constitution did — adding, “I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it. No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court — period.”
In a <a href="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/2023-09-04-Complaint-from-Sen.-Whitehouse-Enclosure.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seven-page letter</a> to Roberts, Whitehouse complained, “As the author of the bill in question and as a participant in the related investigations, I feel acutely the targeting of this work by Justice Alito, and consider it more than just misguided or accidental general opining. It is directed to my work.”
“The Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation encompasses reports that Justice Alito accepted but did not disclose gifts of travel and lodging valued in the tens of thousands of dollars,” Whitehouse wrote, likely referring to a report from the left-leaning group Pro Publica. “Further investigation may reveal additional information that Justice Alito would prefer not come to light. The facts as already reported suggest that Justice Alito likely violated the financial disclosure requirements of the Ethics in Government Act.”
Alito fired back at the Pro Publica claims in June, writing in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/propublica-misleads-its-readers-alito-gifts-disclosure-alaska-singer-23b51eda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>, “When I joined the Court and until the recent amendment of the filing instructions, justices commonly interpreted this discussion of ‘hospitality’ to mean that accommodations and transportation for social events were not reportable gifts. The flight to Alaska was the only occasion when I have accepted transportation for a purely social event, and in doing so I followed what I understood to be standard practice.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-senator-sheldon-whitehouse-faces-backlash-over-membership-to-all-white-club">RELATED: Dem Sen Whitehouse Faces Backlash Over Membership To Alleged All-White Club</a>
After the draft of Alito’s opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade was leaked, causing a national furor, Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy contended that the leaker should be fired, disbarred, and prosecuted.
Whitehouse responded by suggesting that the FBI should not be investigating the matter, saying, “It&#8217;s an interesting separation of powers question why FBI agents from the executive branch would be running around within the Supreme Court, interviewing clerks and staff and justices themselves, if it’s not appropriate for Congress to exercise its legislative powers with regard to those standards.”
But in his complaint to the Supreme Court, Whitehouse appeared to use a reverse of the argument, condemning Justice Alito’s statement in an interview that “[n]o provision in the Constitution gives [Congress] the authority to regulate the Supreme Court, period.&#8221; Whitehouse wrote, &#8220;Those arguments assert (in my view wrongly) that our constitutional separation of powers blocks any congressional action in this area, which in turn is asserted (also wrongly, in my view) to block any congressional investigation.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court">Supreme Court</a> Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/clarence-thomas">Clarence Thomas</a> reported taking private jet flights in the spring of last year because of security concerns that followed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leak-of-scotus-draft-on-roe-v-wade-stuns-nation-this-leak-is-the-gravest-most-unforgivable-sin">leak of a Dobbs draft opinion</a>.
The information appears in a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23932793-clarence-thomas-2022-financial-disclosure">financial disclosure</a> for calendar year 2022 that was released on Thursday. It describes the rationale for the method of travel to Dallas in May of that year and states that the trip was paid for by Republican donor Harlan Crow, a longtime friend to Thomas.
&#8220;Because of the increased security risk following the Dobbs opinion leak,&#8221; the report said, &#8220;the May flights were by private plane for official travel as filer’s security detail recommended noncommercial travel whenever possible.&#8221;
The report said the purpose of the reimbursement, which included meals as well as transportation, was for Thomas being a keynote speaker at the American Enterprise Institute&#8217;s Conference at Old Parkland. Also revealed were other trips paid for by Crow in 2022. The report additionally offers details about financial and real estate matters dating back several years to clear up what it said were prior omissions attributed to mistakes or to offer extra information outside a covered period on issues that have <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus">garnered attention in the media</a>.
POLITICO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leak-of-scotus-draft-on-roe-v-wade-stuns-nation-this-leak-is-the-gravest-most-unforgivable-sin">obtained and published</a> a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito in May 2022 indicating Roe v. Wade would be overturned. More than a month later, on June 24, the Supreme Court released Alito’s majority opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and Planned Parenthood v. Casey cases, which overturned the 1973 Roe decision and returned the issue of abortion to the states.
In delivering remarks at the Heritage Foundation in October, Alito said the leak &#8220;made those of us who were thought to be in the majority in support of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination, because it gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us.&#8221;
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Indeed, a man was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-id-armed-man-who-said-he-wanted-to-kill-supreme-court-justice-kavanaugh-report">arrested in June of 2022 and charged</a> with allegedly attempting to murder fellow conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And GOP lawmakers have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-senators-confront-garland-on-protesters-outside-homes-of-supreme-court-justices">pressed</a> Attorney General Merrick Garland on enforcing a federal law against protests outside Supreme Court justices’ homes.
Chief Justice John Roberts tasked the Supreme Court’s marshal, Gail Curley, with investigating the leak. The inquiry <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-releases-final-report-from-investigation-into-who-leaked-dobbs-draft">culminated in a report</a> in January that failed to identify who was responsible.
Thomas and <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/668317219/Alito-2022-Financial-Disclosure">Alito</a> released their 2022 financial disclosure reports on Thursday after receiving 90-day extensions. They have faced <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/key-allegations-against-clarence-thomas-democrats-call-probe-1819296">growing scrutiny</a> from congressional Democrats over concerns that the justices had failed to properly disclose gifts and paid-for trips, spurred by <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183456911/justice-alito-propublica-singer">reports from ProPublica</a>. The filings come after the Judicial Conference <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/new-gift-disclosure-rules-extend-to-us-supreme-court-justices">issued a new guidance in March</a> that reinforced personal hospitality disclosure rules.
A statement delivered to reporters by Elliot Berke, an attorney who assisted Thomas, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-31/justice-clarence-thomas-discloses-trips-paid-for-by-gop-donor">said</a> the new disclosure report &#8220;answers — and utterly refutes — the charges trumped up in this partisan feeding frenzy.&#8221;

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Republican attorneys general from five states have sent a letter to the biggest law firms in the U.S. telling them to end <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/racial-discrimination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racial preference programs</a> or face accountability. 
On Tuesday, the <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-08/Letter_to_AM_100_Law_Firms_re_Race_Discrimination_Final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> was sent by Montana AG Austin Knudsen, Arkansas AG Tim Griffin, Iowa AG Brenna Bird, Kansas AG Kris Kobach, and Kentucky AG <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kentucky-ag-daniel-cameron-wins-gop-governor-primary-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Cameron</a> to the managing partners, chairs, and CEOs of American Lawyer (Am Law) 100 Firms, a ranking of the 100 biggest law firms in the country. It warned the firms that any discriminatory treatment for hiring violates federal law and that they could be sanctioned if they treat anyone differently because of their skin color. 
“Specifically, you owe a duty to refrain from discriminating on the basis of race, whether under the label of &#8216;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diversity, equity, and inclusion</a>,&#8217; or otherwise. Put simply, differential treatment based on race and skin color, even for purportedly &#8216;benign&#8217; purposes, is unlawful, divisive, and exposes your firm to serious legal consequences, including potentially fines, damages, and injunctive relief,” the letter said. 
The letter referenced the June ruling from the Supreme Court that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-issues-landmark-ruling-on-affirmative-action-at-universities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struck down</a> the racially-based acceptance policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina where certain metrics favored minority students. Some Republicans have said that the Supreme Court ruling can be applied to hiring practices in the private sector, including at law firms. 
According to the Tuesday letter, racial discrimination for employment and promotions may be present in law firms, which they said would violate federal law. 
“These discriminatory practices include, among other things, explicit racial quotas and preferences in hiring, recruiting, retention, promotion, and advancement. They also include shocking race-based contracting practices, such as racial preferences and quotas in selecting suppliers, providing overt preferential treatment to customers on the basis of race, and pressuring contractors to adopt the company’s racially discriminatory quotas and preferences,” the AGs wrote. 
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The letter cited the racial quota for leadership and staff positions at Baker McKenzie, a prominent Chicago law firm. In addition to quotas, the Republicans warned that DEI programming could also be illegal. 
“Activities that utilize racial segregation, race stereotyping, and race scapegoating may violate civil rights laws because they can create a hostile environment and/or involve activities that result in different treatment on the basis of race. This is particularly true when participation in such exercises is compulsory,” the Republicans said. 
The firms were advised to end any “unlawful race-based quotas” or face accountability.  “If you choose not to do so, know that you will be held accountable — sooner rather than later — for treating individuals differently because of the color of their skin,” the letter said. 
Last month, 13 Republican attorneys general sent out a <a href="https://ag.ks.gov/docs/default-source/documents/corporate-racial-discrimination-multistate-letter.pdf?sfvrsn=968abc1a_2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">similar warning</a> to Fortune 500 companies, again pointing to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President &amp; Fellows of Harvard College.

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Republican AGs Tell Nation's Top Law Firms To Stop Racial Preference Hiring Or Face Accountability

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More than 100 of Justice Clarence Thomas&#8217; former clerks banded together to defend their old boss amid continued attacks leveled against him from the political Left, challenging his integrity and independence.
Fox News Digital <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/over-100-former-clerks-justice-thomas-sign-open-letter-defending-his-integrity-independence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Tuesday on an open letter, signed by 112 of Thomas&#8217; former clerks, that accused his attackers of being party to &#8220;a larger attack on the Court and its legitimacy&#8221; and described the Justice as &#8220;a man of greatest intellect, of greatest faith, and of greatest patriotism.&#8221;
&#8220;As his law clerks, we offer this response. Different paths led us to our year with Justice Thomas, and we have followed different paths since. But along the way, we all saw with our own eyes the same thing: His integrity is unimpeachable,&#8221; the letter began. &#8220;And his independence is unshakable, deeply rooted seven decades ago as that young child who walked through the door of his grandparents’ house for a life forever changed.&#8221;
The letter went on to describe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/offensive-disgusting-and-false-desantis-staffer-unloads-on-hillary-clinton-over-clarence-thomas-screed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thomas&#8217;</a> upbringing and education, how he was changed by life in the segregated South, and how he had been destined for the priesthood before the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. led him to the law instead.
&#8220;He is a man of unwavering principle. He welcomes the lone dissent. He is also a man of great humor and warmth and generosity. Walk the halls, and you’ll hear his laugh. Call, and he answers,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;His grandfather’s sayings become our sayings. His chambers become our chambers – a place fueled by unstoppable curiosity and unreturned library books, all to get every case just right.&#8221;
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The tone of the letter then turned, addressing recent attacks against Thomas regarding some of his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harlan-crow-hits-back-slams-yellow-journalism-and-political-hit-job-on-his-friend-clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal friends</a> and gifts he may have received from them.
&#8220;Lately, the stories have questioned his integrity and his ethics for the friends he keeps. They bury the lede. These friends are not parties before him as a Justice of the Court. And these stories are malicious, perpetuating the ugly assumption that the Justice cannot think for himself,&#8221; it continued. &#8220;They are part of a larger attack on the Court and its legitimacy as an institution. The picture they paint of the Court and the man for whom we worked bears no resemblance to reality.&#8221;

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More Than 100 Former Clerks Defend Justice Thomas In Letter: ‘His Integrity Is Unimpeachable’

More Than 100 Former Clerks Defend Justice Thomas In Letter: 'His Integrity Is Unimpeachable'

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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday that chemical abortion drug mifepristone should not be distributed through the mail or prescribed via telemedicine in a ruling that cannot take effect until the Supreme Court issues a ruling on the decision. 
The appeals court did not go as far as U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-in-texas-suspends-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-used-in-up-to-half-of-abortions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who moved to suspend</a> the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FDA</a>’s approval of mifepristone earlier this year, but it did <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/appeals-court-upholds-restrictions-abortion-pill-access-rcna100255" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reinstate</a> regulations on mailing and prescribing the pill. Mifepristone is used in up to half of all abortions. 
“The 5th Circuit rightly required the FDA to do its job and restore crucial safeguards for women and girls, including ending illegal mail-order abortions,” <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/fda-must-restore-vital-safeguards-chemical-abortion-drugs-5th-circuit-rules?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=ppc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erin Hawley, who helped represent those who sued FDA officials to stop the distribution of the drug  “The FDA will finally be made to account for the damage it has caused to the health of countless women and girls and the rule of law by unlawfully removing every meaningful safeguard from the chemical abortion drug regimen.”
“The FDA’s unprecedented and unlawful actions did not reflect scientific judgment but rather revealed politically driven decisions to push a dangerous drug regimen without regard to women’s health or the rule of law. This is a significant victory for the doctors and medical associations we represent and, more importantly, the health and safety of women,” Hawley added. 
The decision was <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/08/16/1194280392/ruling-deals-blow-to-access-to-abortion-pill-mifepristone-but-nothing-changes-ye#:~:text=In%20a%2093%2Dpage%20ruling,the%20case%2C%20cheered%20the%20opinion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">made</a> by three judges, two of whom were appointed by former President Donald Trump and one by former President George Bush. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case in its coming fall session after previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-releases-decision-on-abortion-pill-mifepristone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">putting a stay</a> on Kacsmaryk&#8217;s decision to suspend approval for the pill. 
The decision was widely celebrated by pro-life organizations and decried by pro-abortion groups.
“Today’s ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstating these basic safeguards and stopping the dangerous practice of mail-order abortions is a first step towards reprioritizing women’s health over the interests of the abortion industry and its allies within our profession. As physicians, we will continue to fight for all our patients to be able to receive the best fully informed and evidence-based healthcare possible,” said a <a href="https://aaplog.org/aaplogs-statement-on-the-fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals-decision-to-reinstate-original-rems-safeguards-on-mifepristone/">statement</a> from the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a plaintiff in the case. 
Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Alexis McGill Johnson, claimed that the ruling “makes it clear that mifepristone’s approval is very much still at risk, as is the FDA’s independence.&#8221;

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The Biden administration released new guidance on Monday for higher education institutions to legally consider a student&#8217;s race during admission in the wake of the U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-issues-landmark-ruling-on-affirmative-action-at-universities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court ban on affirmative action</a>.
&#8220;This is a moment of great urgency in higher education,&#8221; Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/white-house-promotes-paths-to-college-diversity-after-gutting-of-affirmative-action/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters Monday morning.
Just before the nation&#8217;s highest court broke for recesses at the end of June, SCOTUS issued a landmark ruling that said race-based admissions programs at Harvard University violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the University of North Carolina programs violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Students for Fair Admissions sued the elite schools, accusing them of unfairly factoring race into their admissions processes, pointing to the high test scores of rejected Asian-American and white applicants. The group argued that Harvard violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination by schools that receive federal funding. In the other case, the group accused the UNC of violating the 14th Amendment&#8217;s equal protection clause by considering race in its admissions process.
&#8220;We know what has happened at colleges when individual states have banned affirmative action in the past,&#8221; Cardona reportedly said during a press call on Monday. &#8220;Fewer students of color applied, and fewer students of color were admitted. We cannot afford that kind of backpedaling on a national scale.&#8221;
The decision now profoundly affects the admissions processes at universities across the country. But despite the nation&#8217;s highest court eliminating universities&#8217; ability to accept applicants based on race, some have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/universities-react-to-scotus-affirmative-action-ruling-harvard-vows-to-find-loophole" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicated</a> that they would search for a loophole in the ruling.
&#8220;Although this decision changes the landscape for admissions in higher education, it should not be used as an excuse to turn away from long-standing efforts to make those institutions more inclusive,&#8221; associate attorney general Vanita Gupta <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/traditional-age/2023/08/14/biden-administration-issues-guidance-affirmative-action" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said at a news conference. &#8220;Race can be relevant to a person&#8217;s life or a lived experience, and may impact one&#8217;s development motivations, academic interests or personal or professional aspirations. That impact can still be considered.&#8221;
The Department of Education and the Department of Justice published <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/ocr-questionsandanswers-tvi-20230814.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guidance</a> outlining available legal resources for colleges and universities to take other steps to achieve a diverse student body based on a range of factors, including race and ethnicity.
According to the question and answer portion of the document, federal officials said the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision &#8220;does not require institutions to ignore race when identifying prospective students for outreach and recruitment, provided that their outreach and recruitment programs do not provide targeted groups of prospective students preference in the admissions process.&#8221;
Some examples federal officials detailed include offering affinity clubs with race-related themes, considering how an applicant&#8217;s race has shaped personal experiences, and re-evaluating admissions preferences for students with legacy status or donor affiliation.
&#8220;With respect to admissions practices themselves, especially for the upcoming cycle, the Departments encourage colleges and universities to review their policies to ensure they identify and reward those attributes that they most value, such as hard work, achievement, intellectual curiosity, potential and determination,&#8221; the administration wrote in the &#8220;Dear Colleague&#8221; <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-20230814.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a>.
Attorney General Merrick Garland told the Associated Press in a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/affirmative-action-college-admissions-race-e8566608a1b9ce4efc7db6de41759ad1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>, &#8220;Ensuring access to higher education for students from different backgrounds is one of the most powerful tools we have to prepare graduates to lead an increasingly diverse nation and make real our country&#8217;s promise of opportunity for all.&#8221;
Students for Fair Admissions has not responded to requests for comment.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> on Friday called on the Supreme Court to &#8220;intercede&#8221; in his mounting legal battles.
Trump excoriated his political enemies on social media one day after he pleaded not guilty to federal changes in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the January 6 Capitol riot and 2020 election interference.
&#8220;CRAZY! My political opponent has hit me with a barrage of weak lawsuits, including D.A., A.G., and others, which require massive amounts of my time &amp; money to adjudicate,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110831337231923264" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a post on his Truth Social platform Friday morning.
Trump added that resources that could have gone to advertisements and rallies will now have to be spent fighting the &#8220;Radical Left Thugs&#8221; in courts across the country.
&#8220;I am leading in all Polls, including against Crooked Joe, but this is not a level playing field,&#8221; Trump said.
Trump lobbed the election interference accusation back at his political opponents and said the high court must intervene.
&#8220;It is Election Interference, &amp; the Supreme Court must intercede. MAGA!&#8221; Trump wrote.
Trump was indicted on Tuesday and appeared in court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to plead not guilty to the charges accusing him of attempting to undermine democracy by trying to overturn the 2020 election.
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The former president is facing four charges, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructing an official proceeding, and conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted.
Trump has faced two other indictments in the past several months. He is <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2023/08/01/all-three-trump-indictments-explained/70486445007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facing</a> 34 charges of falsifying business records related to alleged hush-money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump is also facing 40 charges related to his handling of sensitive documents after he left office, a case also being prosecuted by Smith. In addition, Trump is facing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fed-prosecution-will-disrupt-other-trump-cases-ny-attorney-general-predicts">civil litigation</a>.
While it is possible Trump&#8217;s cases could end up in front of the Supreme Court, this would not likely happen until the cases have progressed much further.
Some legal critics said they believe the election interference case against the former president has significant legal problems.
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley called parts of the indictment &#8220;jarring.&#8221;
&#8220;It said [Trump] was spreading falsehoods, that [he] was undermining integrity of the election — that is all part of the First Amendment,&#8221; Turley <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/legal-experts-slam-jack-smith-lousy-case-trump-disinformation-indictment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;And I think that courts will look skeptically.&#8221;
Andrew McCarthy, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said he believes the charges have &#8220;significant legal problems, and that’s even before you get to the complex problems of trying to prove Trump’s intent.&#8221;
President Joe Biden has said that Americans can trust the independent Justice Department as it investigates Trump.
“I have never once, not one single time, suggested to the Justice Department what they should do or not do relative to bringing a charge or not bringing a charge,” Biden <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/08/biden-doj-trump-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in June.
Special counsel Smith in June <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4043002-jack-smith-special-counsel-statement-trump-charges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emphasized</a> the &#8220;scope and the gravity&#8221; of the classified documents case. Attorney General Merrick Garland <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/14/garland-trump-documents-smith-indictment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> the Justice Department’s investigation as well, saying Smith, as well as the prosecutors and agents involved, are committed to &#8220;integrity and the rule of law.&#8221;

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Columbia Law School removed a questionable admission requirement for transfer students on Monday after <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/columbia-law-school-said-it-would-require-applicants-to-submit-video-statements-in-the-wake-of-affirmative-action-ban-then-it-backtracked/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Free Beacon</a> inquired that the application process appeared to have a portion used to bypass the U.S. Supreme Court ban on affirmative action.
Just before SCOTUS broke for recesses at the end of June, a landmark ruling from the court said race-based admissions programs at Harvard University violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the University of North Carolina programs violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The decision now profoundly affects the admissions processes at universities across the country.
But despite the nation&#8217;s highest court eliminating universities&#8217; ability to accept applicants based on race, some have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/universities-react-to-scotus-affirmative-action-ruling-harvard-vows-to-find-loophole" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicated</a> that they would search for a loophole in the ruling.
On Monday morning, Columbia Law School&#8217;s admissions page reportedly said all transfer applicants must submit a 90-second video statement addressing random questions &#8220;to provide the Admissions Committee with additional insight into their personal strengths,&#8221; according to the Free Beacon.
But the video statements from transfer applicants only appeared on the law school&#8217;s website after the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action policies.
Columbia&#8217;s decision &#8220;has all the hallmarks of a willful effort to evade the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act,&#8221; Edward Blum, the founder of the nonprofit legal advocacy organization Students for Fair Admissions, told the Free Beacon. &#8220;What is a 90-second video supposed to legitimately convey that a written statement could not?&#8221;
Blum&#8217;s organization took the legal challenge to the nation&#8217;s highest court after accusing the so-called elite universities of unfairly factoring race into their admissions processes. The group pointed to the high test scores of rejected Asian American and white applicants. The Supreme Court ultimately ruled against Harvard and UNC.
Following the Free Beacon&#8217;s report, a law school spokesman claimed the application&#8217;s video statement component — which was first introduced before the Supreme Court ruling in a pilot program — had been a misunderstanding. By 6:00 p.m. on Monday, officials removed the portion from the school&#8217;s website.
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&#8220;Video statements will not be required as part of the Fall 2024 J.D. application when it becomes available in September,&#8221; the law school told the Free Beacon in a statement. &#8220;It was inadvertently listed on the Law School&#8217;s website and has since been corrected.&#8221;
Campus Reform, a watchdog group, reported that some colleges have drummed up other ways to inquire about a students&#8217; race, including Sarah Lawrence College in New York, which asks applicants how the SCOTUS ruling has personally affected them, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/01/columbia-university-claims-video-requirement-on-application-was-an-accident/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>.
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A lawyer representing former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> told Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice Department</a> special investigator Jack Smith was putting the American justice system in jeopardy after he brought another indictment against Trump.
In an interview with Trump&#8217;s attorney Jesse Binnall on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1779-the-january-6-indictment-is-here-and-it-s-bulls-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wednesday episode</a> of &#8220;The Ben Shapiro Show,&#8221; Binnall and Shapiro discussed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-grand-jury-indicts-trump-over-alleged-efforts-to-overturn-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest indictment</a> against Trump over his alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“They&#8217;re playing a super dangerous game here, not only because the charges are spurious, but also because the charges are serious. There&#8217;s every possibility that because there&#8217;s a D.C. jury, President Trump is convicted on these charges, it gets appealed and ends up in the Supreme Court of the United States,” Shapiro said.
The Daily Wire co-founder noted that he believed if the Supreme Court ruled in Trump’s favor, the high court would be completely delegitimized before the Left even though it would be the correct decision.
“We have really a system where Jack Smith is putting the entire credibility of the American justice system, no matter what side wins, at what level, really in jeopardy here. You know, I can tell you, one person that is really sweating right now is John Roberts, you know, the chief justice who puts the credibility of the judiciary very, very high,” Binnall said.
Binnall added that Smith was likely putting the Supreme Court in an impossible situation.
“It&#8217;s, quite frankly, a very, very sad day for the country and the rule of law. And the very unfortunate thing is we may look back at this time in history to say, oh boy, you remember back in 2023 when we were, you know, relatively united as a country compared to where we are in 2024 and 2025,” Binnall added.
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Shapiro and Binnall also discussed the nature of the charges, with both saying that the charges were legally dubious. Trump was charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
Shapiro said that the outcome of the case could lead to future legal disasters, especially with disputes over constitutional interpretation and issues like gerrymandering.
“I think that what Jack Smith is basing his strategy on here is that prosecutors favor the Washington, D.C., establishment. Prosecutors &#8212; especially at the Department of Justice &#8212; favor the Washington, D.C., establishment. So it&#8217;s very unlikely that those prosecutors would ever bring a case on the other side; that prosecutorial discretion is something that is only used against Donald Trump and his supporters,” Binnall said.

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Come for Morning Wire’s Afternoon Update’s straight news, but stay for the Rapid Reactions The following five stories, and more, can be heard on today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update podcast. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/biden-administration-appeal-twitter-threatens-legal-action-afternoon-update-7-6-23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here to listen</a>. 
1. DOJ Lets Sam Bankman-Fried Off The Hook For Campaign Finance Fraud
The Department of Justice <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/business/sam-bankman-fried-campaign-finance-charge.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will</a> not pursue campaign finance charges against the disgraced former crypto-king Sam Bankman-Fried after the DOJ learned that the U.S. hadn’t obtained permission from the Bahamas to extradite Bankman-Fried on that charge. Bankman-Fried, who ran the multi-million dollar crypto-investing firm FTX, was charged on eight counts, including fraud, money laundering, and campaign finance violations. He was a major Democrat donor. The change in his indictment came late Wednesday night.
Rapid Reaction: Is it any wonder trust in the U.S. government is slow when the infamous SBF gets treated like this by the DOJ? As TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk said, &#8220;There&#8217;s a very real chance that one of the worst scammers in American history will get a slap on the wrist.&#8221;
&#8220;Between the kid glove treatment of Hunter Biden and the unraveling case against SBF vs. the entrapment of MAGA supporters and the relentless pursuit of Donald Trump, the American public is getting a crash course in how their federal &#8216;justice system&#8217; really works,&#8221; he added.
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Did you know that over the past two months, 6 of the 13 charges against FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried have been dropped? There&#39;s a very real chance that one of the worst scammers in American history will get a slap on the wrist.
Then, we have the plea deal for Hunter Biden,…
&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1684603934365847552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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2. Radical Gender Ideology Hearing
A congressional subcommittee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/barbaric-pseudoscience-chloe-cole-calls-for-lawmakers-to-protect-children-from-transgender-procedures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">heard</a> testimony on Thursday about radical gender ideology and sex-change surgeries and other procedures. The testimony was emotional for both those who supported so-called “transgender care” for minors and those opposed to it. Among those who testified were Chloe Cole, a detransitioner who received sex-change procedures at the age of 15, an NCAA athlete, as well as a trans-identifying attorney and a mother who has a trans-identifying child.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t need to be lied to, I needed compassion, I needed to be loved, I needed to be given therapy to help me work through my issues, not affirming my delusion that by transitioning into a boy, it would solve all my problems,&#8221; Cole said.
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Gender transition therapy victim Chloe Cole: &quot;I didn&#39;t need to be lied to, I needed compassion, I needed to be loved, I needed to be given therapy to help me work through my issues, not affirming my delusion that by transitioning into a boy, it would solve all my problems.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/jtHF5vtL2o">pic.twitter.com/jtHF5vtL2o</a>
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&#8220;That story is the exception, not the rule,&#8221; attorney Shannon Minster said. &#8220;Vast majority of young people who receive these treatments are getting them after careful assessment and because they really need them.&#8221;
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Rapid Reaction: Consider how insane this moment in American history is: A sizable chunk of the Democratic Party believes that not only can men and women change their sex and gender through bodily mutilation, but that minors should be allowed to do so. The Democrats are so adamant in this belief that states are pushing for laws that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-state-senator-warns-parents-to-flee-state-after-gender-affirmation-bill-advances" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strip parental authority away</a>. And now, Congress has to host hearings on the matter in hopes of exposing how barbaric this practice really is.
It&#8217;s a bizarro world out there, for lack of a better term.
3. Supreme Court Strikes Down Gas Pipeline Ban
The Supreme Court has <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news/ap-supreme-court-allows-construction-to-resume-on-the-mountain-valley-pipeline/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struck down</a> a ruling from a lower court that prohibited the construction of a 300-mile natural gas pipeline &#8212; being built through Virginia and West Virginia &#8212; from moving forward. This morning, the high court vacated stay orders put in place by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. That ruling was opposed by both the fossil fuel industry and the Biden administration. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said he is relieved the high court upheld a law passed by Congress and signed by the president. The senator went on to say, “The Supreme Court has spoken and this decision to let construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline move forward again is the correct one.”
Rapid Reaction: Thank goodness for the conservative Supreme Court — and thank goodness for former President Donald J. Trump&#8217;s appointments. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meads-joe-bidens-energy-policy-is-the-embodiment-of-america-last" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously covered</a>, the Biden administration has effectively done everything to make the U.S. dependent on foreign nations&#8217; energy. It&#8217;s backward and hurting our economy and national security. This is a win for all Americans.
4. Trump Indictment Coming?
<a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/07/27/trump-j6-indictment-expected-n2626281">Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys</a>, Todd Blanche and John Lauro, were reportedly told by the prosecutors in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office to “expect an indictment” for their client over the events leading up to and during the January 6 Capitol riot. However, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110787141696035682">denied</a> this report on Truth Social and said it was a “productive meeting.”
Rapid Reaction: The Witchhunt continues &#8212; what else is there to say at this point? Perhaps the better question is — what is the GOP going to do about this double standard? Another letter? More on that <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=what%27s+the+GOP+doing+dailywire&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&amp;oq=what%27s+the+GOP+doing+dailywire&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64l2.3838j1j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
5. Bowe Bergdahl Conviction Vacated
Bowe Bergdahl, the American soldier who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bowe-bergdahl-has-desertion-conviction-vacated-by-judge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">captured</a> in Afghanistan and later traded for five Taliban leaders in a prisoner exchange, has had his desertion conviction tossed out.  A federal judge said the original case could have been clouded by a conflict of interest.
According to U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, Judge Jeffrey Nance did not disclose his application to be an immigration judge under then-President Donald Trump. Walton argued that Bergdahl’s trial could then be construed as a conflict of interest because of Trump’s vocal criticisms of Bergdahl and that Nance’s neutrality was “undermined” because “he might be inclined to appeal to the president’s expressed interest in the plaintiff’s conviction and punishment when applying for the immigration judge position.”
Rapid Reaction: It&#8217;s easy to forget how terrible former President Barack Obama&#8217;s foreign policy really was. The Bergdahl swap typified his fecklessness on the world stage.
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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> issued a ruling on Thursday allowing construction of a key natural gas pipeline in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/west-virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Virginia</a> and Virginia after a lower court had previously blocked the building of the pipeline. 
Environmental groups had attempted to block construction of the 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline, which will connect northwestern West Virginia and southern Virginia. The pipeline&#8217;s construction was backed by a wide swath of entities including Congress, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice, Democrat Senator Joe Manchin, and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. 
The Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/072723zr_j4ek.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruling</a> followed a decision from the 4th Circuit Court that had temporarily blocked a 3-mile stretch through Jefferson National Forest after the Wilderness Society and Appalachian Voices <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mountain-valley-pipeline-west-virginia-b44e88fc4cc279199e6c845fd83321db" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> construction in that section might lead to water contamination and erosion. 
A stipulation approving the pipeline was previously <a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-debt-ceiling-budget-signing-f78a000d83cf85ffbaa2d08637844053" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> by Congress as part of a deal over the debt ceiling. 
According to the pipeline&#8217;s producers, its construction of the pipeline has <a href="https://www.mountainvalleypipeline.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MVP-Economic-Environmental-Beneifts-March-2021-FINAL2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">created</a> over 2,000 jobs in Virginia and 3,700 in West Virginia. Its creation is also projected to bring in millions of dollars in tax revenue for local and state governments. 
Justice, who has filed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/west-virginia-governor-files-to-run-for-manchins-senate-seat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">run for Senate</a> and challenge Manchin, filed an amicus brief in support of the pipeline. 
 “West Virginians have been waiting for this project to be completed for years. There are thousands of jobs and tens of millions of dollars in critically important tax revenue to the State of West Virginia at stake. There are significant property rights and hundreds of millions of dollars in royalty revenues to West Virginia property owners at stake,” the governor’s brief <a href="https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2023/Pages/Gov.-Justice-files-SCOTUS-brief-urging-Mountain-Valley-Pipeline-completion.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Manchin, an occasional critic of the Biden administration’s energy policy, also praised the Supreme Court’s decision. 
“The Supreme Court has spoken and this decision to let construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline move forward again is the correct one. I am relieved that the highest court in the land has upheld the law Congress passed and the President signed,” Manchin <a href="https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/manchin-statement-on-us-supreme-court-order-allowing-construction-of-mountain-valley-pipeline-to-continue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. 
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Morrisey, who said that the Supreme Court should look at the case, praised the court for its ruling. 
“I am pleased the Supreme Court recognized the importance of this project not only for West Virginia, but for the nation,” Morrisey said. “The Mountain Valley Pipeline is vital to the survival of American energy independence and affects thousands of jobs in West Virginia — its completion is also critical to our national security, the urgent need is for it to be completed as soon as possible.”
The pipeline was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-reinstates-major-gas-pipeline-blow-environmental-groups" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> by the Laborers&#8217; International Union of North America, the American Gas Association, and the American Petroleum Institute.

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