Category Archives: Supreme Court

“Who Cares About the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy?”

June 6, 2019, 9:23 amcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Linda Greenhouse in the NYT: What changed my mind about writing about this issue again was the administration’s response to the request by the plaintiffs, a coalition of immigrant rights groups, to Judge Furman for “sanctions or other appropriate relief”… Continue reading

Federal District Court in Census Citizenship Question Case Won’t Decide If DOJ Officials Lied About Purpose of Question—Until After the Supreme Court is Expected to Rule.

June 5, 2019, 2:45 pmcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

These developments make it much harder for plaintiffs to get any new factual findings before the Supreme Court rules in the census case. 16. Judge Furman says he sees "no reason to rush this process" before #SCOTUS reaches it decision… Continue reading

ACLU Files Sharp Letter in District Court (with Copy to Supreme Court) Responding in Census Citizenship Case

June 5, 2019, 9:01 amcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Letter: The link will bring you to the rest of the letter.

“Hyperpartisan Gerrymandering”

June 5, 2019, 6:53 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Michael Kang has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Boston College Law Review). Here is the abstract: We live in hyperpartisan times. Democrats and Republicans have not been so bitterly divided along partisan lines since Reconstruction, nor so aggressively hostile… Continue reading

“Robin Vos won’t have to testify in Wisconsin gerrymandering case for now, and may not have to at all”

June 4, 2019, 3:57 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos won’t have to sit for a deposition in Wisconsin’s gerrymandering case in the short term — and might escape having to testify entirely. A panel of appeals judges blocked a lower court order Tuesday… Continue reading

DOJ’s John Gore Said in His Deposition That One of the Purposes of Collecting Citizenship Data on the Census Forms is To Let States Draw Districts with Equal Numbers of Eligible Voters (Which Hurts Hispanics and Democratic Voters)

June 4, 2019, 2:10 pmcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The other day I tweeted this: This is a key point and shows that whether or not DOJ borrowed from Hoefeller, the motivation was to allow states to engage in redistricting based on voter eligible persons, which would dilute… Continue reading

Tweet of the Day (from Nate Persily)

June 4, 2019, 11:17 amcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Read the thread, starting here: https://twitter.com/persily/status/1135973410117341184

“DOJ calls new census allegations a ‘baseless attack on the integrity’ of department and its employees”

June 4, 2019, 6:58 amcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

CNN reports.

DOJ Responds to Census Plaintiffs on Hofeller, Claiming There Were No False Statements in DOJ Testimony and No Evidence Hofeller Material Was Used in DOJ Position on Citizenship Question on Census

June 3, 2019, 3:59 pmcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Here is the letter, painting a starkly different picture of both the facts and legal relevance of the Hofeller materials. This will no doubt have to be hashed out by the district court, while the Supreme Court drafts its opinion… Continue reading

Registration Opens Today for UCI Law 9th Annual Supreme Court Term in Review (July 8)

June 3, 2019, 7:32 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Hope to see many of you there (and the event will be live webcast. Registration opens today. Details: 9th Annual Supreme Court Term in Review Monday, July 8 at 10:30am to 12:00pm Irvine Barclay Theatre & Cheng Hall 4242 Campus Drive,… Continue reading

“A Partisan Grab, in Six Steps Will the Supreme Court act as a Republican branch?”

June 3, 2019, 7:26 amcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

David Leonhardt for NYT Opinion.

How Appealing Rounds Up Census Litigation Developments

June 2, 2019, 7:43 pmcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Here.

I Talked About the Census Case and the New Revelations with Hansi Lo Wang and Dale Ho on KQED Forum

May 31, 2019, 12:58 pmcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

You can listen here.

“New Memo Reveals the Census Question Was Added to Boost White Voting Power; Why it won’t matter to the Supreme Court’s conservatives.”

May 30, 2019, 9:07 amcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: If we had a fair Supreme Court not driven by partisanship in its most political cases, Thursday’s blockbuster revelation in the census case would lead the court to unanimously rule in … Continue reading

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