Welcome to December, black diamond and bunny hills...

The Supreme Court's December session will be headlined by cases involving the Trump administration’s efforts to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the Census and a pair of cases related to immunities for foreign governments.

Here are some of the upcoming cases we're watching:

• Trump v. New York concerns the Trump administration’s plan to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the state-by-state breakdown of apportionment data used to allocate seats in the House of Representatives. 
• Nestle USA, Inc. v. Doe (consolidated with Cargill, inc. v. Doe) deals with whether foreigners can sue U.S.-based corporations under the Alien Tort Statute alleging violations of international human rights laws.

• Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid concerns the federal definition of an autodialer, and whether it covers devices that can store and automatically dial phone numbers without the use of a random number generator.

Check out SCOTUS' schedule here, then join the conversation:

How do you feel about SCOTUS' December cases?

Biden’s Plan to Restrict ‘Assault Weapons’

President-elect Joe Biden indicated his administration will pursue legislation to ban the production of “assault weapons” and will aim to give owners of such firearms the choice of selling it to the government through an optional buyback program or registering it with the federal government.

Depending on how the above provisions are implemented, projections suggest the taxes could apply to 20 million AR- and AK-style rifles in addition to 150 million ammunition magazines according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, and could cost up to $34 billion based on a Washington Free Beacon analysis.

Do you support or oppose Biden’s plan to restrict assault weapons?

President-Elect's Cabinet

Former Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen has been chosen to lead the Biden administration's Dept. of the Treasury. Yellen was the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve, a role she served in from 2014 to 2018 after she spent four years as the vice-chair of the Fed’s Board of Governors. 

Also:

How do you feel about Biden’s nominations?

Impressive Impostering

AOC's Among Us stream on Twitch netted $200K for coronavirus relief.

And, in the End…

Sit where you have every right to sit in honor of Rosa Parks Day.

On this date in 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

Click here to read a short biography about the "mother of the modern-day civil rights movement."

Have a meaningful Giving Tuesday,

—Josh Herman

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