Category Archives: Supreme Court

Coming This Weekend to CSPAN Book TV

March 15, 2018, 8:37 amScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

My conversation with Adam Liptak of the New York Times and Professor Susan Low Bloch of Georgetown Law about my new book on Justice Scalia’s legacy should air some time this weekend on CSPAN Book TV. The video should… Continue reading

“Justice Scalia’s Fading Legacy”

March 15, 2018, 8:18 amScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Linda Greenhouse NYT column. I’ve got a very different view, which I’ll be writing about over coming weeks.

Watch Brennan Center Video in Which Joan Biskupic and I Discuss Justice Scalia’s Legacy and My New Book, The Justice of Contradictions

March 14, 2018, 9:31 amScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

(also at this link) There’s also this podcast. (Link to order the book.)

“FTC Exclusively Obtains Records from U.S. Marshals Service on Scalia’s Final Trip, Justices’ Summer Travel”

March 14, 2018, 9:27 amScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Fix the Court: On the day before he died, Justice Antonin Scalia – deplaning from Southwest flight no. 1209 at Houston Hobby, gun in tow and in poorer health than was widely known – was met by deputy U.S. marshals… Continue reading

“Is one of the Pennsylvania voting cases doomed?”

March 12, 2018, 7:53 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Lyle Denniston for Constitution Daily.

Free Access the Preface to My New Book: The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption

March 12, 2018, 9:49 amScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

My Yale University Press book is officially out next week (available to buy now at Amazon, on Audible audiobook, and for Kindle) , but you can now freely download the five-page preface at SSRN. Here is how… Continue reading

“The Consequences of Citizens United: What Do the Lawyers Say?”

March 12, 2018, 9:11 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Ann Southworth has posted this fascinating draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Chicago-Kent Law Review). Here is the abstract: Drawing on confidential interviews with thirty-one lawyers who participated in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission as counsel for parties and amici, this… Continue reading

What’s Up, Justice Alito?

March 8, 2018, 8:30 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I’ve been expecting a quick rejection of the Pa. Republicans’ longshot claim in the congressional redistricting lawsuit. The last time around Justice Alito rejected the claim without referring to the Court. But briefing has been done since Tuesday, and… Continue reading

Cert. Petition Filed Challenging Montana Law Barring Judicial Candidates from Seeking, Accepting, or Using Political Party Endorsements

March 7, 2018, 1:28 pmcampaigns, judicial elections, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Read it here.

Pa Legislative Challengers in Congressional Redistricting Case File Reply with Supreme Court

March 6, 2018, 1:58 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

You can read it here. Justice Alito or the Court could rule at any time. I’d expect something in the next few days.

Today at Lunch: Adam Liptak, Sue Bloch and I Will Discuss Justice Scalia’s Legacy at Georgetown Law

March 6, 2018, 6:24 amScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Amazon has started shipping out my book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, with an official release date of March 20. Today, I am in DC for this event: Justice of Contradictions: Discussing Scalia’s… Continue reading

More Briefs Filed at SCOTUS in Pa Congressional Redistricting Case

March 5, 2018, 8:08 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Here they are, courtesy of the SCOTUS website: Response to application from respondents League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, et al. filed. Main Document Proof of Service Mar 05 2018 Response to application from respondents Governor Thomas W. Wolf, et… Continue reading