Category Archives: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Performed Pretty Well During the Pandemic, Except When It Came to Voting Rights, Where Its Record is Abysmal

July 9, 2020, 12:27 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

My thread starts here: So I think the Supreme Court performed pretty well during the pandemic, scheduling remote oral arguments with live audio and getting the most important cases out only a week late. But there's one big exception:… Continue reading

“Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized last month after injuring his head in a fall”

July 7, 2020, 8:31 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

WaPo: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. suffered a fall at a Maryland country club last month that required an overnight stay in the hospital, a Supreme Court spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday night.The 65-year-old chief justice was taken by ambulance to… Continue reading

“Can We Please Pick the President by Popular Vote Now? The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in the faithless electors’ case is another reminder of how antiquated and undemocratic the Electoral College is.”

July 6, 2020, 9:19 pmelectoral college, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Jesse Wegman NYT column.

Analysis: Supreme Court Saves the Country from Potential Chaos by Ruling (Unanimously) That States May Replace or Punish “Faithless Electors”

July 6, 2020, 8:22 amelectoral college, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The Court’s decision in Chiafalo (the Washington election case) is at this link. The per curiam opinion in Baca (the Colorado case), with Justice Sotomayor recused, is at this link. The decision is a great relief because a contrary… Continue reading

Supreme Court Will Not Intervene to Require Texas to Offer No-Excuse Absentee Balloting for Those Under 65 During the Primary

June 26, 2020, 1:16 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Adam Liptak: NEW: Supreme Court turns down request from Texas Democrats to allow everyone in the state to vote by mail, not just those over 65 pic.twitter.com/wuQGXnTJhS— Adam Liptak (@adamliptak) June 26, 2020 There is still a pending… Continue reading

Supreme Court, Without Noted Dissent, Won’t Revive District Court Order Blocked by 6th Circuit Allowing Ohio Petition Circulators to Collect Electronic Signatures

June 25, 2020, 11:01 amdirect democracy, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

SCOTUS won't block lower court ruling that stopped petition gatherers in Ohio from collecting electronic signatures to put measures on the ballot this year pic.twitter.com/MUs50ohue7— Sam Levine (@srl) June 25, 2020

Ohio Petition Signature Gatherers Seek Supreme Court Relief in Covid Case

June 17, 2020, 5:59 pmdirect democracy, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Read the emergency application for a stay in Thompson v. DeWine.

In Risky Move, Texas Democrats Appeal 5th Circuit Absentee Voting Decision to Supreme Court, Claiming 26th Amendment Violation

June 16, 2020, 11:07 amabsentee ballots, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

You can find the cert petition here and application to vacate the 5th circuit’s stay of the district court order here. Here is the question presented: “Does Texas’s limitation of the right to cast a no-excuse mail-in ballot to… Continue reading

“U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Montana campaign finance law”

June 2, 2020, 8:31 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Bozeman Daily Chronicle: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case that challenged Montana’s law on disclosing the spending for political ads within 60 days of an election.In August 2019, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of … Continue reading

Franita & Foley Podcast Talks to Derek Muller About the Faithless Electors Lawsuit

May 22, 2020, 12:04 pmelectoral college, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Listen.

“Supreme Court Seems Ready to Curb ‘Faithless Electors’”

May 13, 2020, 8:45 pmelectoral college, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Adam Liptak for the NYT: The Supreme Court seemed ready on Wednesday to allow states to require members of the Electoral College to cast their votes for the presidential candidates they had pledged to support.In two arguments concerning “faithless electors”… Continue reading

“Going rogue; America’s Supreme Court considers the rights of ‘faithless’ presidential electors”

May 7, 2020, 12:38 pmelectoral college, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Steve Mazie for The Economist.

“Supreme Court Unanimously Overturns ‘Bridgegate’ Convictions”

May 7, 2020, 8:32 amchicanery, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

NYT: The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously overturned the convictions of two defendants in the “Bridgegate” scandal.The case resulted from a decision in 2013 by associates of Chris Christie, then the governor of New Jersey, to close… Continue reading

Revised Version of My Forthcoming Georgetown L.J. Online Paper, The Supreme Court’s Pro-Partisanship Turn, Now Available

May 7, 2020, 8:24 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Here at SSRN.

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