“Proportional Voting Through the Elections Clause: Protecting Voting Rights Post-Shelby County”
Conner Johnston has written this student note for the UCLA Law Review.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
“Section 2 Zero-Sums: How the Supreme Court Misconstrued the Voting Rights Act, Limits Minority Representation, and Dangerously Pits Minorities Against Each Other”
Salvador Perez has written this piece for the Stanford Law Review Online.
Is Justice Kennedy in Play in Arizona Redistricting Case?
My read of the transcript was no. But I’ve now heard from three very smart people I know who were in the courtroom who said Justice Kennedy seemed more in play in the case than it appeared to… Continue reading
Analysis: Supreme Court Looks to Endanger Citizen Redistricting Commissions and MORE
I have now had a chance to review the transcript in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission and the news is not good. It appears that the conservative Justices may be ready to hold that citizen redistricting commissions… Continue reading
“Justices Seem Skeptical of Independent Electoral Map Drawers”
AP reports. MORE from Reuters.
More to come.
“Call for Papers: The Best of the Most/Least, Best/Worst, Etc./Etc. of the U.S. Supreme Court”
Green Bag:
We invite submissions for our fourth micro-symposium, to be published in the Green Bag and the Journal of Law. Theme: The Top Ten Rankings of the Supreme Court. This is inspired, obviously, by Rick Hasen’s The Most… Continue reading
Final Version of “The Most Sarcastic Justice” Now Posted by the Green Bag
“Is Supreme Court’s chief justice ready to take down ObamaCare?”
“G.O.P. Race Starts in Lavish Haunts of Rich Donors”
Fascinating NYT A1.
“The Supreme Court and Independent Redistricting Initiatives: Uncertain Effects and Constitutional Doubts”
“Originalist or Original: The Difficulties of Reconciling Citizens United with Corporate Law History”
Leo Strine and Nicholas Walter have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Citizens United has been the subject of a great deal of commentary, but one important aspect of the decision that has not been explored in… Continue reading
“Argument preview: Who, exactly, is ‘the legislature’?”
Lyle Denniston previews the Arizona redistricting case at SCOTUS.
Alabama Files Supplemental Reply Brief in #SCOTUS Redistricting Case
I have posted the brief here. It addresses a one person, one vote issue that plaintiffs claim have now become ripe.
Background.
“New Charges for Group That Disrupted Supreme Court”
AP:
Prosecutors took a hard line Thursday with demonstrators who participated in a rare disruption inside the U.S. Supreme Court, adding additional charges against them and saying disrupting the high court is different from other protests in the… Continue reading