Vanity Fair: “The job of the Supreme Court reporter has traditionally been to track cases, and translate the final opinions to readers. But this term, as the conservative supermajority ruled on hot-button issues including affirmative action, LGBTQ+ rights,… Continue reading
NYT: “Senate Democrats plan to push ahead this week with legislation imposing new ethics rules on the Supreme Court in the wake of disclosures about the justices’ travel and outside activities, despite blanket opposition by Republicans who claim the… Continue reading
AP: “The group of voters who sued the state and won before the Supreme Court have proposed the creation of a second district where Black residents are 50.5% of the population. But Alabama Republicans, who hold a lopsided majority… Continue reading
NYT:
Under orders from the Supreme Court to produce a voting map that no longer illegally dilutes the power of Black voters in Alabama, the state’s lawmakers are now facing a high-stakes scramble to come up with an acceptable… Continue reading
NYT:
Democrats in Congress are making a fresh push for the nearly century-old Equal Rights Amendment to be enshrined in the Constitution, rallying around a creative legal theory in a bid to revive an amendment that would explicitly guarantee… Continue reading
The A.P. has released a series of stories on the ethics practices of Supreme Court justices, relying on more than 100 public records requests to colleges and universities. (Disclosure: my university was among those that received a request.) You can… Continue reading
As I have explained, although the Supreme Court in Moore v. Harper rejected the most extreme version of the independent state legislature theory, it endorsed another theory that amounts to a “time bomb:”
It is indeed a cause for… Continue reading
This is the first in a few posts looking at litigation comparable to the issues in Moore v. Harper to see if any lessons can be learned from those areas. I’ll start with the Takings Clause.
Tamia Fowlkes for WaPo:
For many voters under 35 years of age, especially those on the left, the Supreme Court has become a political issue in the same way that climate change, gun violence and immigration have over the course… Continue reading
I have written this piece at Slate. It begins:
At the end of his majority opinion for the Supreme Court striking down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program, Chief Justice John Roberts stridently protested the scope and tone of… Continue reading
Westlaw Today:
Election law expert Richard L. Hasen says the U.S. Supreme Court has adopted a weaker formulation of the independent state legislature theory, which will empower federal judges to second-guess state court rulings in politically sensitive election cases.
Hasen,… Continue reading