“The scary part of the Supreme Court ruling on Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots”
New Josh Douglas at CNN.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
Video of My Appearance Yesterday on AC360/CNN Talking About Supreme Court’s Pennsylvania Voting Ruling
You can watch here:
“In a 4-4 Split, the Supreme Court Lets Pennsylvania Make Voting Easier—For Now; The decision signals that Amy Coney Barrett will cast the deciding vote in any upcoming election disputes.”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
After a very long delay in an emergency election case, the shorthanded United States Supreme Court came to a 4-4 tie in an election law case out of Pennsylvania on Monday… Continue reading
“Justice Kavanaugh Unlocked Ways to Fight Foreign Interference”
Ellen Weintraub NYT oped:
Among many other recent developments not likely on anyone’s 2020 bingo card, a Supreme Court decision about foreign aid and legalized prostitution has shattered perceived constraints on the authority of the United States to robustly… Continue reading
Retired Judge Michael Luttig, in WaPo Oped, Suggests Judge Barrett, If Confirmed Would Likely Have to Recuse (under the Caperton Case) in Any Supreme Court Election Litigation
Judge Luttig:
The majority declined to grapple with Roberts’s prescient question whether there is a principled difference between a case where a person has financially influenced a judge and one where the biasing influence is nonfinancial. But the majority’s evident… Continue reading
“Federal Appeals Courts Emerge as Crucial for Trump in Voting Cases”
NYT:
The Texas case is one of at least eight major election disputes around the country in which Federal District Court judges sided with civil rights groups and Democrats in voting cases only to be stayed by the federal appeals… Continue reading
“Supreme Court is about to have 3 Bush v. Gore alumni sitting on the bench”
Joan Biskupic for CNN.
“Barrett Won’t Pull Away From Trump’s Coattails”
Jost on Justice:
The recusal issue was one of at least five lines of questions from Democrats that gave Barrett easy options to pull herself away from Trump’s coattails. But she begged off on each one, by hiding behind the… Continue reading
“Supreme Court Speeds Up Case On Trump’s Push To Alter Census For House Seats”; But Still a Good Chance Trump Loses Case
NPR:
The U.S. Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s request to speed up the appeal of a lower court ruling that is blocking the president’s attempt to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the census numbers used to reallocate seats… Continue reading
Alabama SOS John Merrill Asks Supreme Court to Kill Curbside Voting
“Voting Is An ‘Individual Right,’ Barrett Testifies, But Critics Remain Leery”
NPR:
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois returned to voting rights questions during his portion of the morning on Wednesday by returning to a case Barrett handled on the appeals court. She wrote that a man involved who had been… Continue reading
Judge Barrett Won’t Answer Question Whether Every Presidential Candidate Should Commit to a Peaceful Transition of Power, Seeing It as a “Political Controversy”
Watch:
Barrett is asked if she believes a president should unequivocally commit to a peaceful transfer of power"To the extent that this is a political controversy right now, as a judge I want to stay out of it, and I… Continue reading
Over Justice Sotomayor’s Dissent, Supreme Court Will Let the Census Count End Earlier Than Original October 31 Date
You can find the order here.
“Barrett won’t commit to recusing from election disputes”
AP:
The 48-year-old appellate court judge, nominated by President Donald Trump and on track for quick confirmation before the Nov. 3 election, also declined to commit to recusing herself from any cases arising from that election.“I can’t offer an… Continue reading