“For Supreme Court’s conservatives, it’s all about the letter of the law”
Richard Wolf for USA Today.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
“Little Scalia; Watching Neil Gorsuch, a mild-mannered good boy from Denver, become the second-most-polarizing man in Washington.”
NY Mag reports:
Behind the shtick, Gorsuch is performing a conservative virtue signal. In his 2016 paean to Scalia, Gorsuch called for judges “to apply the law as it is,” not to decide cases based on “moral convictions” or “policy… Continue reading
Very Important William & Mary Law Review Redistricting Symposium Now Available
Good things come to those who wait. This is a particularly important symposium, given all that has happened and soon will happen with redistricting.
Issue 5 (APRIL 2018)
ARTICLES:
A Reasonable Bias Approach to Gerrymandering: Using Automated Plan Generation to … Continue reading
Chief Justice Roberts Almost Certainly Has, or Had, the Gill Partisan Gerrymandering Opinion
The ONLY case remaining from the October sitting (now that EPIC has been decided) is Gill, the partisan gerrymandering case and the only Justice who has not written yet from that sitting is CJ Roberts, who is skeptical of such… Continue reading
“Political Insiders Plotted the Most Gerrymandered District in America—and Left a Paper Trail”
The Washingtonian on the Maryland gerrymander at issue in Benisek.
Sen. Grassley: Trump and McConnell Would Push Through SCOTUS Nominee If Vacancy Opens in 2020, Ignoring McConnell’s “Biden Rule” for Judge Garland
Grassley suggests if there’s a SCOTUS vacancy in 2020, GOP will try to fill it with a Trump appointee – unlike in 2016 when McConnell kept it vacant, citing the election year https://t.co/rpEegogmb7
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 11, 2018
“Study: Most Americans want to kill ‘Citizens United’ with constitutional amendment”
“After Garland Defeat, New Group Hopes to Draw Democrats to Judicial Battlefield”
NYT on an important new effort:
Democrats learned the hard way in 2016 that the right is much more animated by judicial fights after Republicans’ refusal to consider the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick B. Garland helped rally conservative voters… Continue reading
Breaking: Ninth Circuit Denies Rehearing En Banc in Montana Campaign Contributions Case, Teeing Up Issue for Possible Supreme Court Review
Back in October, I wrote the following:
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In Major Victory in Case with National Significance, Ninth Circuit on 2-1 Vote Upholds Montana Contribution Limits; Judge Bea Would Appear to Hold *All* Limits Unconstitutional
Posted on October 23, … Continue reading
“Looking Back at Scalia’s Controversial ‘Long Game'”
I did a really great Q and A with Tony Mauro for the May issue of the National Law Journal about my new book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption.
I Talked to June Grasso of Bloomberg Law About My Book on Justice Scalia’s Legacy
I had a great conversation with June Grasso of Bloomberg Law about my new book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption.
Listen.
Rick Pildes: “Why gerrymandering is going to get even worse”
Smart Rick Pildes at the Monkey Cage:
We have had only two redistricting cycles (2000 and 2010) in this transformed political terrain. When the stakes are so high that partisan control of the House might hang in the balance, more… Continue reading
Does the Chief Justice or Justice Gorsuch Have the Majority Opinion in Gill v. Whitford, the Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case?
Tea leaf reading from my colleague Leah Litman:
https://twitter.com/LeahLitman/status/988783108194385920
Let me lay out a marker and say that if the Chief has it, I think he’s more likely to be the sixth vote to rein in partisan gerrymandering than the… Continue reading
Texas redistricting and the travel ban
(X-posted at Take Care.)
Two of the last SCOTUS mega-cases of the Term share a little something.
This morning, the Supreme Court hears argument in the Texas redistricting case. Tomorrow, the Court considers Trump’s travel ban. They’re both massive… Continue reading