DrWeb<p><strong>SCOTUStoday for Monday, September 22, 2025 – SCOTUSblog</strong></p><a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/scotustoday-for-monday-september-22/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>(Katie Barlow)<p><strong><em>Editor’s Note: Consider getting this newsletter for yourself. Given the damaging role this Court on the Right-Wing heavily now is causing, it’s vital we know how to act to America’s current crisis.</em></strong></p><p><strong>Newsletter</strong></p><p><strong>SCOTUStoday for Monday, September 22</strong></p><p>By <a class="" href="https://www.scotusblog.com/author/kelsey-dallas-and-nora-collins/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Kelsey Dallas and Nora Collins</a>, on Sep 22, 2025</p>Official portrait of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts. 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We are thrilled to have you join us for this new phase of SCOTUSblog.</p><p><strong><strong>Morning Reads</strong></strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nicholas-roske-brett-kavanaugh-sentencing/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Man who tried to assassinate Kavanaugh in 2022 wanted to kill 3 justices, prosecutors say</a> (Scott MacFarlane and Melissa Quinn, CBS News) — In a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.514255/gov.uscourts.mdd.514255.98.0.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sentencing memorandum</a> filed on Friday, federal prosecutors said that Nicholas Roske, the “California man who pleaded guilty to attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022,” planned to kill three justices “in an effort to ‘single-handedly alter the constitutional order for ideological ends,’” according to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nicholas-roske-brett-kavanaugh-sentencing/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CBS News</a>. Prosecutors said they uncovered Discord messages from Roske about his plan to “remove some people from the supreme court” in order to prevent the conservative majority from overturning <em>Roe v. Wade.</em> “Prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Roske to at least 30 years to life in prison, arguing that his conduct is an affront to the Constitution and required ‘extensive premeditation.’”</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/world/europe/justice-alito-rome-religious-liberty.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Justice Alito, in Rome, Says Religious Liberty is Under Siege</a> (Motoko Rich and Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times) — Justice Samuel Alito spoke in Rome on Saturday about rising threats to religious freedom, not just in the United States, but around the world. “It is a great matter of concern and something that I think all Christians should be concerned about and should try to find ways of combating this problem,” Alito said during an event cosponsored by the United States Embassy to the Holy See, the Vatican and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/world/europe/justice-alito-rome-religious-liberty.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>. Alito, who briefly met with Pope Leo XIV during his visit to Rome, also reflected on the relationship between his work on the court and his Catholic faith. “I think reason is a hallmark of the Catholic intellectual tradition,” he said.</li><li><a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/supreme-court-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-reflects-challenges-kindness-uva" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reflects on challenges, kindness at UVA</a> (Jane Kelly, UVA Today) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined her Harvard Law School roommate Kimberly Jenkins Robinson at the University of Virginia on Thursday to speak about her journey to the Supreme Court and how her parents taught her to embrace academic opportunities without looking down on others who didn’t have the same opportunities. Her own grandmother didn’t know how to spell, but she modeled “generosity of spirit and consideration of others … before our family with every breath of her hard, beautiful life,” Jackson said, according to <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/supreme-court-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-reflects-challenges-kindness-uva" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">UVA Today</a>. Students in the crowd sang “Happy Birthday” to Jackson at the end of the event; she turned 55 on Sept. 14.</li></ul><p><strong><em>Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.</em></strong></p><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/scotustoday-for-monday-september-22/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">SCOTUStoday for Monday, September 22 – SCOTUSblog</a></em></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/blog/" target="_blank">#Blog</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/education/" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/newsletter/" target="_blank">#Newsletter</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/opinion/" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/scotus/" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/scotusblog/" target="_blank">#SCOTUSblog</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/u-s-supreme-court/" target="_blank">#USSupremeCourt</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>