Entries tagged with “Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States”
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Aug 05, 2021
Presidential Commission Hears Recommendations for Reforms to Supreme Court’s Death-Penalty Practices
Legal reform advocates and a committee of high-profile Supreme Court practitioners have urged the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States to recommend changes in the way the Court handles emergency applications for stays of executions in death-penalty cases. In testimony in public hearings before the Commission in June and July 2021, Innocence Project Executive Director Christina Swarns, who argued the Texas death-penalty case Buck v. Davis before the Court, and the…