“Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted gifts worth millions of dollars over 20 years, analysis finds”
Analysis from Fix the Court says it adds up to $2.4 million between 2004 and 2023. Which CNBC has helpfully put into a bar chart.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
Supreme Court Asks for US Government’s Views on North Dakota Racial Gerrymandering/Voting Rights Act Case
Order list and jurisdictional statement.
Surprise! A brief from Alabama for 13 states would go much further in attempting to dismantle the Voting Rights Act as applied to redistricting.
The request to hear from the Solicitor General means this… Continue reading
“Supreme Court sends dispute over Arkansas’ GOP-drawn congressional map back to lower court”
NBC News:
The Supreme Court on Monday told a lower court to take a fresh look at claims alleging that Republican-drawn congressional districts in Arkansas sought to minimize the influence of Black voters.
The justices threw out a May 2023… Continue reading
Greg Sargent Presses Sen. Whitehouse on Senate Hearings About Supreme Court Conduct
Listen, beginning around 10:30 in the podcast.
“This Supreme Court ruling is a ‘get-out-of-jail’ card for racial discrimination”
Michael Li oped:
The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority made it much easier last week to attack the political power of the nation’s growing communities of color. The high court’s attacking voting rights isn’t new. But the latest blow, in … Continue reading
“Commentary: ‘Good faith’? Not in the SC Legislature and not on the US Supreme Court”
Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner:
Of all the defects in last week’s decision upholding South Carolina’s gerrymandered 1st Congressional District, none is more depressing than the U.S. Supreme Court’s debasement of the term “good faith.” As The Post and Courier… Continue reading
“Experts Question Alito’s Failure to Recuse Himself in Flag Controversy”
Adam Liptak for the NYT:
Supreme Court justices seldom give reasons for their decisions to recuse themselves. Even rarer are explanations for deciding to participate in a case when they have been accused of conflicts of interest.
Justice Samuel A.… Continue reading
Were the Liberal Justices Savvy or Suckers in the NAMUDNO Voting Rights Case Leading to the Shelby County Case Overturning a Key Part of the Voting Rights Act? New Inside Information from Judge Tatel Shows They Were Suckers
Before there was Shelby County there was NAMUDNO, a case that punted on the constitutionality of a key part of the Voting Rights Act in an almost unanimous opinion. I wrote in the Supreme Court Review in 2009 that the… Continue reading
Justice Alito’s Flag Story Doesn’t Add Up
New must-read reporting from Jody Kantor in the NYT:
To better understand the clash, The Times interviewed Ms. Baden, her mother and her husband, as well as other neighbors, and reviewed the texts that Ms. Baden and her husband sent… Continue reading
The long shadow of the Elections Clause
Rucho v. Common Cause and Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP both involved congressional redistricting. Each took place, ostensibly, under Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution, the Elections Clause.
From Rucho, “Congress has regularly… Continue reading
Brandon Johnson: “There’s ‘Clear Error’ in the Supreme Court’s New Racial Gerrymandering Decision
The following is a guest post from Brandon Johnson:
The Supreme Court has made a habit of applying general rules of law in exceptional ways when deciding election law cases. The Court has, for example, elevated the holding in… Continue reading
“Supreme Court ruling makes it harder to bring racial gerrymandering claims”
Nina Totenberg reports for NPR.
Breaking and Analysis: Justice Alito for Republican Justices, over the Dissent of Democratic Justices, Rewrites Racial Gerrymandering Standards to Help White Republican States
[This post has been edited and updated.]
In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Alito, the Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling holding that South Carolina’s congressional map was a racial gerrymandering. Justice Thomas concurred, and Justice Kagan,… Continue reading
WTF Justice Alito?
NYT:
Last summer, two years after an upside-down American flag was flown outside the Virginia home of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., another provocative symbol was displayed at his vacation house in New Jersey, according to interviews and photographs.
This… Continue reading