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Category Archives: Celebrity Justice
They are in this Bob Barnes story on Justices at the Harvard bicentennial. You can find them directly here and here. It is based upon my work for the Green Bag on Celebrity Justice, as well as the excellent work … Continue reading
Fix the Court has tracked the Justices’ summer travel, but this from their email blast caught my eye (in bold, my emphasis): Supreme Court justices’ travel – summer 2016 Chief Justice John Roberts No public events Justice Anthony Kennedy … Continue reading
Adam Liptak for the NYT: Members of the Supreme Court took scores of trips paid for by private sponsors last year, according to the financial disclosure forms of eight justices released Wednesday. No information was provided concerning Justice Antonin Scalia, who … Continue reading
The Green Bag has posted the final version of my article on how SCOTUS Justices are much more in the news than ever before. … Continue reading
Tony Mauro for NLJ: Kwan acknowledges she’s “positive we have missed things,” estimating that the site captures 80 percent of the justices’ appearances. Hosting organizations and institutions sometimes do not publicize visits at the request of justices or for … Continue reading
The NLJ on Justice Kennedy’s appearance at Harvard: Kennedy, also in response to a student’s question, said he stands by his 2010 decision in the still controversial Citizens Unitedcampaign finance case. “In my own view, what happens with money in … Continue reading
@DahliaLithwick: What is not clear,” Urofsky argues, “is whether the dissent in the modern court is as powerful an agent of dialogue as it was in the days of Holmes and Brandeis, especially in terms of conversing with the larger … Continue reading
Matt Ford in the Atlantic: Journalistic interviews with the justices are increasingly common and often good,but rarely great; New York magazine’s 2013 conversation with Antonin Scalia is adelightful exception. All nine of them speak often in public, although their audiences … Continue reading
Justice Breyer kicks off a new book tour with an Adam Liptak interview and a Stephen Colbert appearance. Justice Breyer may not be among the most controversial or well known Justices, but he was number 2 (after Justice Sotyomayor) in … Continue reading
Calvin TerBeek blogs. … Continue reading
Richard Wolf for USA Today: He speaks the most during oral arguments, so perhaps it’s no surprise that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia remains the most popular among his colleagues on the outside speaking circuit as well. Scalia took 23 … Continue reading
As I’ve noted, RBG is “notorious” for dropping clues about upcoming forthcoming SCOTUS rulings. Bob Barnes reads the tea leaves. The Justice also talked about her celebrity status: Liu showed slides of T-shirts celebrating the Notorious RBG, as the popular … Continue reading
My interview with June Grasso (mp3): Bloomberg Law: Supreme Court Justice Celebrity (Audio) Jun 11, 2015 Richard Hasen, a professor at University of California Irvine School of Law, discusses the celebrity status of Supreme Court justices, who are scheduling interviews and … Continue reading
“Never compromise your principles,…unless of course your principles are Adolf Hitler’s, in which case you would be well advised to compromise them as much as you can.” —Justice Antonin Scalia, speaking at his granddaughter’s graduation. … Continue reading
“Nino Scalia, at one point, was hounded by me on one case and Ruth on another,” Sotomayor recounted. “And he looked at me and he said, ‘you know why I love you? You are a bulldog. You put your head … Continue reading
Jacob Gershman explores my SCOTUS celebrity index over at the WSJ law blog. … Continue reading
I spoke with KCRW’s Madeline Brand about my new study on reported public appearances of Supreme Court Justices, 1960-2014. … Continue reading
Adam Liptak NYT Sidebar column on Justices’ appearances features my new research: The recent flurry of public appearances is part of a trend that has been decades in the making. As the court’s workload has dropped, the justices have found … Continue reading
I have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: It is not your imagination. Supreme Court Justices are in the news more than ever, whether they are selling books, testifying before Congress, addressing a Federalist Society, or American … Continue reading
Read Dahlia Lithwick in Slate. … Continue reading
This morning Maureen Dowd reported for the NYT about a same-sex wedding she attended officiated by Justice Ginsburg: But the most glittering moment for the crowd came during the ceremony. With a sly look and special emphasis on the word … Continue reading