Category Archives: Supreme Court
“Democrats’ redistricting gains hit a roadblock: The Supreme Court”
WaPo:
Wisconsin Democrats thought they had won the redistricting war. They took over the governor’s office, competed in and won state judicial races and filed lawsuits as early as they could, determined to prevent another cycle of Republican-leaning maps.… Continue reading
“How Bad Could Things Get for the Voting Rights Act? The Supreme Court Just Gave Us a Preview.”
Mike Parsons and Joshua Sellers at the Harvard Law Review Blog.
“The US supreme court’s assault on voting rights hits a new low”
Sam Levine for The Guardian:
Even for experts who closely follow the US supreme court, there was something stunning about an emergency decision from the justices on Wednesday.In an unexpected move, the court decided to throw out new… Continue reading
“Dominion Voting’s Libel Suits, the First Amendment, and Actual Malice”
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy for the Brennan Center, with the subhead: “If the Supreme Court gets involved, the defamation cases against Fox News and One America News could end up changing longstanding rules relating to the press.”
“Supreme Court ruling on Wisconsin legislative map puts voting rights advocates on high alert”
Jane Timm for NBC News:
A Supreme Court order last week blocking Wisconsin’s redistricting map is sparking fresh concerns among advocates that the high court may soon sound the death knell for what’s left of the Voting Rights Act.Experts… Continue reading
Listen to Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Nate Persily on Slate Amicus Discussing, KBJ Hearing, Disinformation, and Elections
“Sen. Mitch McConnell has made it his personal mission to keep the dark money spigot open; The GOP’s hypocrisy on donor transparency has been on full display since President Biden announced Ketanji Brown Jackson as his Supreme Court justice nominee.”
Brendan Fischer NBC News oped.
“Justice Thomas Ruled on Election Cases. Should His Wife’s Texts Have Stopped Him?”
Adam Liptak explores in the New York Times:
The disclosure that Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, had sent a barrage of text messages to the Trump White House urging efforts to overturn the 2020 election brought… Continue reading
Breaking: Supreme Court, in Bizarre Unsigned Opinion, Strikes Wisconsin Legislative Maps on Voting Rights Grounds, Signalling New Hostility to the Voting Rights Act
In a per curiam (unsigned) opinion on the shadow docket, over the dissent of Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, the Supreme Court has rejected a redistricting plan that a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court had adopted for drawing state assembly and senate… Continue reading
Supreme Court oral argument today on whether state legislators can intervene in North Carolina voter ID dispute
Following up on earlier ELB coverage (here and here), the SCOTUSblog page is here. Oral argument takes place today around 11 am ET. The questions presented are procedural issues, but they are the kind that keep cropping… Continue reading
“GOP Dark Money Criticisms in Supreme Court Fight Mirror Democrats”
Bloomberg Law:
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) brought poster boards to Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s 2020 confirmation hearing highlighting the interconnections among conservative groups like the Judicial Crisis Network and the Federalist Society.Now, Republicans have a chance to turn… Continue reading
“Short-Term SCOTUS Win for Democrats, Long Term Worry”
I spoke to Bloomberg Radio’s June Grasso about the independent state legislature theory and SCOTUS.
Wisconsin Republican Members of Congress File Emergency Supreme Court Petition to Block New Wisconsin Congressional Districts Ordered by State Supreme Court (Link to Petition)
The petition raises due process and one person, one vote arguments, so different than other recent challenges to congressional districting done by state supreme courts and challenged at SCOTUS.