Category Archives: Supreme Court
“Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee; Progressives have successfully transformed the First Amendment’s restrictions on government into an instrument of government speech control.”
Paul Jossey writes for The Federalist.
More SCOTUSBlog Entries on Williams-Yulee
Robert Durham, Robert Corn-Revere, and Joshua Wheeler.
MORE from Alan Morrison at Concurring Opinions.
“State’s Congressional Districts Rest on Jurisdictional Dispute”
Marcia Coyle:
In the Three-Judge Court Act, Congress required district court panels of three jurists to decide litigation involving redistricting, campaign finance and other key areas.
Three Marylanders now are asking the U.S. Supreme Court the fundamental question of… Continue reading
In Defense of Justice Scalia
I’m going to disagree with Jeff Toobin on this one. The comment on the protester seems pretty innocuous to me. I take it that Scalia was joking that it was “refreshing” to have a right wing person disrupting… Continue reading
Wisconsin “John Doe” Case Relisted for May 14 #SCOTUS Conference
Docket. Here is my earlier post on what the relisting means.
Floyd Abrams Speech on First Amendment Makes Important Point About Corporations
I had the great pleasure of speaking at a Yale conference this week on my money and politics work, at a conference co-sponsored by the Abrams Institute. That’s the work of Floyd Abrams, the nation’s leading First Amendment lawyer. We… Continue reading
“Citizens United: The view from the ivory tower has a blind spot”
Jeff Clements at The Hill’s Congress Blog takes me and others on.
“Racial Gerrymandering’s Questionable Revival”
I have posted this draft Essay on SSRN, forthcoming in the Alabama Law Review‘s symposium on the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Here is the abstract:
Like history, the racial gerrymandering cause of action has repeated itself, the… Continue reading
“Beyond Quid Pro Quo: What Counts As Political Corruption?”
Peter Overby for NPR.