“Voter-ID Actions Push Fight Past November; Supreme Court Lets Texas Apply Restrictions for Midterms, but Legality Hasn’t Been Decided”
Brent Kendall reports for WSJ.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
Justice Ginsburg Tells Nina Totenberg SCOTUS Likely Would Have Granted Same Sex Marriage Review If Circuit Split
At the 92nd Street Y event:
“As of now, all the Courts of Appeal agree, so there is no crying need for us to step in.”
When Nina asked if there is a split and the Court takes a… Continue reading
Justice Ginsburg Tells Nina Totenberg About 5 AM Texas Voter ID Decision
From this event at the 92nd Street Y [my transcription, and there could be errors]:
Nina Totenberg: Justice Ginsburg, you were up until … Friday night/Saturday morning, writing a passionate dissent in the Texas voter id case. Just to let… Continue reading
“SCOTUS to Texas: Go Forth and Discriminate Against Your Citizens Starting Monday”
“Analysis: High court action on Texas ID law shows mixed record on voting rights”
David Savage writes for the LA Times.
Geidner Talks to Totenberg and Denniston on the 5am #SCOTUS Texas ID Order Release
Here, at Buzzfeed.
Explaining Justice Breyer’s Surprising (Non-)Vote in the Texas Voter ID Case
Justice Breyer did not join in Justice Ginsburg’s fiery 6-page dissent in the Texas voter id case the Supreme Court just decided. The majority let Texas’s law go into effect, despite a final judgment from a federal district court finding… Continue reading
Teachout’s “Corruption in America”
[This is the latest in a series of short reflections on new books in campaign finance which I am working my way through as I write my own manuscript on the subject.]
Zephyr Teachout’s Corruption in America is a… Continue reading
Joan Biskupic’s Must-Read Book on Justice Sotomayor and the Supreme Court
Supreme Court reporter (and current Reuters legal editor) Joan Biskupic has written Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice. It is an engaging and insightful book on Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s path to the Supreme… Continue reading
CJ Roberts Vote in Wisconsin Voter ID Case Proof He’s Going Wobbly?
Josh Gerstein on some noises by conservatives. I don’t buy it for a second, for reasons Josh gives in the piece—this was not a ruling on the merits, and even supporters of voter id laws had good reason to worry… Continue reading
“Aligning Campaign Finance”
Nick Stephanopoulos has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Virginia Law Review).
Campaign finance law is in crisis. In a series of recent decisions, the Supreme Court has rejected state interests such as anti-distortion and equality, while narrowing the anti-corruption… Continue reading
Coverage of and Reactions to the SCOTUS TX Voter ID Ruling
Texas ID documents at the Supreme Court
A redacted version of Texas’s response to the planitiffs’ application for vacating the 5th Circuit’s stay, and a reply here from some of the plaintiffs. The inimitable Lyle Denniston, as always, has more at SCOTUSblog.
We’re now waiting on word… Continue reading
“As Courts Debate Voter ID, Election Workers Prepare for Both Outcomes”
And Texas election officials are hedging their bets.