Democrats File Reply in OH “Golden Week” Case at #SCOTUS
You can find it here (via Chris Geidner).
I expect we will hear something from the Court in the next few days.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
#SCOTUS MI Straight-Ticket Story Roundup
Via Howard.
Supreme Court, With Justices Thomas and Alito Dissenting, Refuses Michigan Voting Stay; Three Ideological Camps at SCOTUS
After an unexplained delay in ruling last night, the Supreme Court without comment has turned down Michigan’s request to overturn a stay blocking the state’s elimination of straight ticket voting. Justices Thomas and Alito would have granted the stay.
This… Continue reading
#SCOTUS Sometimes Decides Even When It Doesn’t Decide: The Strange MI Voting Case
[Friday morning update: read about the Court’s order denying MI’s stay request here.]
It is almost midnight on the East Coast, and we still have no ruling from the Supreme Court on Michigan’s application to allow it to … Continue reading
Read OH Opposition to Dem’s “Golden Week” Emergency SCOTUS Motion
Fred Wertheimer, Jan Baran Talk Campaign Finance After Scalia at SCOTUSBlog Symposium
“Prosecutors will drop cases against former Va. governor Robert McDonnell, wife”
WaPo:
Federal prosecutors will not attempt to retry former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, on corruption charges, ending a years-long saga that rocked the commonwealth’s political class and cut short the rise of a Republican Party… Continue reading
Justice Kagan Reflects on Giving Her First Oral Argument Ever, In Citizens United
Watch, beginning at the 1:06 mark. Funny and interesting.
2 MI Republican Senators File SCOTUS Amicus Brief in Straight Ticket Voting Emergency Case
“A Broken Winged Pterodactyl Walks Into the Supreme Court: A Look at Next Term’s Redistricting Cases”
Nate Persily and I were interviewed for this Bloomberg BNA podcast.
“Without conservative Supreme Court majority, voter-law challengers make gains”
Bob Barnes for WaPo:
With the Supreme Court at an ideological impasse and Senate Republicans refusing to allow hearings for President Obama’s nominee to the court, Merrick Garland, the final state rules for elections throughout the country are likely… Continue reading
“Aggregate Corruption”
Michael Gilbert and Emily Reeder have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Kentucky Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
This symposium paper challenges the Supreme Court’s most recent campaign finance decision, McCutcheon v. FEC. True to recent form, the Court… Continue reading
“Schuette takes straight-party voting fight to Supreme Court”
The Detroit Free Press reports.
I’m sure Republicans would rather not have voters have the choice to reject the entire Republican ticket if they choose to reject Trump.
I rate Michigan’s chances of getting emergency relief from the Supreme Court… Continue reading
“The spurious claims against voters’ Golden Week add up to GOP monkey business”
Thomas Suddes column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.