The Solicitor General’s Chutzpah in the Census Oral Argument
Sasha Samberg Champion:
https://twitter.com/ssamcham/status/1120754053573685250
Category Archives: Supreme Court
Read the Transcript in Today’s Supreme Court Argument on the Citizenship Question on the Census
It is here.
“John Roberts faces another test with census case”
Joan Biskupic for CNN.
“Accuracy at core of Supreme Court case over census question”
Mark Sherman for the AP.
“New research shows just how badly a citizenship question would hurt the 2020 Census”
Matt Barreto ,Chris Warshaw ,Matthew A. Baum ,Bryce J. Dietrich ,Rebecca Goldstein and Maya Sen in the Monkey Cage:
The Trump administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census reaches the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Thus far,… Continue reading
“Academic highlight: Levitt on the collateral consequences of Department of Commerce v. New York”
Amanda Frost at SCOTUSBlog:
On its face, Department of Commerce v. New York asks whether the government may add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 decennial census. But as Professor Justin Levitt explains in a forthcoming essay,… Continue reading
George Will Column Gives Many Reasons Why Decision to Include Citizenship Question on Census Was Pretextual, But Concludes Supreme Court May Allow It Anyway
I really understood what Will was saying in this column until the last paragraph, which doesn’t seem to follow.
“John Roberts rejects requests for same-day audio of census citizenship arguments”
Quote of the Day
““The Titanic was launched with less hubris and more preparation.”
Justin Levitt, in his forthcoming Columbia Law Review article, Citizenship and the Census, as quoted in Adam Liptak’s NYT Sidebar preview of the upcoming oral argument in the census… Continue reading
“Balkinization Symposium on Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum, The Company They Keep– Collected Posts”
Balkinization:
Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum’s new book, The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court (Oxford University Press, 2019).
1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to … Continue reading
Quote of the Day
“It was like ‘Jeopardy,'” said Dale Ho, director of voting rights at the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the lawyers who will argue the case in the Supreme Court. “They had the answer. They needed the question.”
USA Today… Continue reading
Webinar: The Citizenship Question Presented: The Census Case Reaches the Supreme Court
ACS:
On April 23rd, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Department of Commerce v. New York, a case that raises questions of administrative and constitutional law, and that has the potential to affect the accuracy of the… Continue reading
“Fixing Gerrymandered Maps Tougher than Gorsuch, Kavanaugh Think”
Bloomberg Law:
The Supreme Court’s newest justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, highlighted independent redistricting commissions as a solution to state legislatures maximizing seats for the party in power while drawing voting districts.But legal experts say these commissions can’t… Continue reading
Horwitz on The Troubling Phenomenon of Supreme Court Justices as Celebrities
Paul Horwitz:
Usefully, Hasen emphasizes “the role of the ‘Celebrity Justice,’ a phenomenon which Devins and Baum acknowledge near the end of the book. Scalia, and later Ruth Bader Ginsburg, became rock star Justices, drawing adoring crowds… Continue reading