Category Archives: Supreme Court
“Networking the Party: First Amendment Rights & the Pursuit of Responsive Party Government”
Tabatha Abu El-Haj has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This Article argues that the Supreme Court’s party jurisprudence is predicated on a set of theoretical assumptions that do not hold true in the real world of… Continue reading
“Gerrymandering and the Constitutional Norm Against Government Partisanship”
This looks good! Michael Kang has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Michigan Law Review). Here is the abstract:
The Article challenges the basic premise in the law of partisan gerrymandering that government partisan purpose is constitutional at all. The… Continue reading
“Racial Gerrymandering and Vote Dilution: Shaw v. Reno in Doctrinal Context”
James Blumstein has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Rutgers Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
In the opening sentence of her opinion for the Court in Shaw v. Reno, the North Carolina racial gerrymander case, Justice O’Connor observed that… Continue reading
More SCOTUSBlog Posts on Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case
Likely the Most Important Brief Filed in the WI Partisan Gerrymandering Case Supports Neither Party
This from Bernie Grofman and Keith Gaddie (with the great Josh Rosenkranz as counsel of record) may be the most important brief filed in the Gill case case:
Amici seek to assist the Court in understanding recent developments in social… Continue reading
More SCOTUSBlog Posts on Gill v. Whitford, the WI Partisan Gerrymandering Case
“Justice Dept. sides with Ohio’s purge of inactive voters in case headed to Supreme Court”
SCOTUSBlog Symposium on Gill v. Whitford, the WI Partisan Gerrymandering Case
First entries from:
Amy Howe (explainer).
Thomas Wolf.
Coming This Spring: My New Book on Justice Scalia
Yale University Press:
The Justice of Contradictions
Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption
Engaging, but caustic and openly ideological, Antonin Scalia was among the most influential justices to serve on the United States Supreme Court in generations. In this… Continue reading
C-SPAN to Air 7th Annual UCI Law Supreme Court Term in Review on Wed at 8 PM Eastern
You can watch here, from the event back in July.
Panelists
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Professor of Law, UC Berkeley Law School, Founding Dean, UCI Law
Hon. Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Hon. … Continue reading
Republican National Committee Files SCOTUS Brief Arguing Against Finding of Partisan Gerrymandering in WI Case
“The Institutional Case for Partisan Gerrymandering Claims”
Mike Parsons has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
For voters hoping the Supreme Court’s 2017 Term brings relief from partisan gerrymandering, the end of the 2016 Term was inauspicious. In Cooper v. Harris, the majority assumed… Continue reading
CCP Files Brief in SCOTUS Travel Ban Case on Free Speech of Candidates
Interesting read.
You can find my contrary views in this Slate piece.