Category Archives: Supreme Court
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
SCOTUSBlog Running Symposium on Census Citizenship Question Case
Posts being collected here.
“Two Birds, One Stone: The Supreme Court’s Shot to Fix the Political Question Doctrine and Political Gerrymandering”
A Recount Could Be Coming in Closely Watched Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
At the time I write this post, the closely watched race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court is a nailbiter:
The loser can request a recount if the race is within 1 percent, and the state pays if it is… Continue reading
“The Elephant in the Room: Intentional Voter Suppression”
Lisa Manheim and Elizabeth Porter have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Supreme Court Review . Here is the abstract:
Since its inception, the Roberts Court has acquiesced in—and at times even abetted—the attempts of many states to make it… Continue reading
“Siloed Justices and the Law/Politics Divide”
I have written this post for a Balkinization symposium on a terrific new book by Devins & Baum, The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court (Oxford University Press, 2019). My post begins:
In an … Continue reading