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“Thurgood Marshall Institute Releases Brief Examining State Control of Black Political Power in Local Communities”
LDF Release:
Last week, the Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute released a new research brief, When the State Takes Over: How State Officials Usurping Local Control Threatens Local Black Political Power, authored by Senior Researcher Dr. Sandhya… Continue reading
“In Trump Cases, Supreme Court Cannot Avoid Politics”
Insightful Adam Liptak analysis at the NYT.
“‘They didn’t do it clearly enough’: SCOTUS ruling prompts worries of another Jan. 6 crisis”
Politico:
The Supreme Court said Monday it was avoiding “chaos” by squashing state-level efforts to throw Donald Trump off the ballot.
Instead, the high court may have just shifted that chaos to Congress.
The decision ignited an intense debate… Continue reading
“Amy Coney Barrett disagreed with the majority over Trump, but admonished the liberals instead”
Joan Biskupic for CNN:
Justice Amy Coney Barrett packed two very different messages into her one-page opinion on Monday as the Supreme Court declared states could not toss former President Donald Trump off the ballot.
She chastised her colleagues on the right… Continue reading
My New One with Dahlia Lithwick in Slate: “It’s Past Time to Quit Hoping the Courts Are Going to Stop Trump”
Dahlia Lithwick and I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
The latest decisions out of the Supreme Court, first on when to hear former President Donald Trump’s immunity appeal, then on how to deal with his Colorado ballot… Continue reading
“Newly Released Messages Detail Roots of the ‘Fake Electors’ Scheme”
NYT:
Just five days after Election Day in 2020, a conservative lawyer named Kenneth Chesebro emailed a former judge who was working for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, James R. Troupis, pitching an idea for how to overturn the results.… Continue reading
Wow: Trump v. Anderson Started as Having a Partial Justice Sotomayor Dissent
Great sleuthing from Mark Joseph Stern:
How Should We Read Justice Barrett’s Separate Decision in Trump Disqualification Case? Is this 6-3 or 5-4 on Congress’s Power?
Following up on my earlier discussion of today’s ruling, some are asking whether the decision about Congress’s power is really 6-3 and I wrote, or 5-4 given Justice Barrett’s concurrence.
Justice Barrett joined Parts I and II.B, but not… Continue reading
Breaking: Supreme Court Unanimously Holds Colorado Cannot Disqualify Trump, But Divides Bitterly 6-3 Over Limits on Congress’s Power to Do So; Gives SCOTUS the Final Word on Trump Disqualification
You can find the Supreme Court’s decision, along with separate opinions of Justice Barrett, and Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson (together) at this link. [This post is in progress]
The Court unanimously agrees that states cannot enforce Section 3… Continue reading
“Colorado votes Tuesday. The Supreme Court hasn’t said if votes for Trump will count.”
USA Today:
No Supreme Court justice seemed eager last month to kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot when they heard Trump’s challenge to the decision in Colorado that he can’t be a candidate.
Their apparent agreement on a… Continue reading
“‘The Primary Problem’: How hyperpartisan minorities hijacked elections”
I highly recommend listening to Chuck Todd’s podcast with Nick Troiano. They discuss Nick’s important new book “The Primary Solution,” and among other valuable points Nick makes is that the current system of partisan primaries is actually hurting political… Continue reading
“Haley rules out a No Labels bid for president”
“Pace of Supreme Court Immunity Case Shadowed by Looming Election”
Adam Liptak for the NYT:
“There comes a point,” Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote in 1949, “where this court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.”
The Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday to schedule arguments… Continue reading