“Could Clarence Thomas Be Questioning Whether Citizens United Binds the States?”
Steve Klepper blogs.
I’m skeptical.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
“Jeffrey Fisher and Bert Rein, Lawyers Who Won Recent Supreme Court Cases, on UCI Law Panel”
OC Weekly on tomorrow’s 4th Annual UCI Law Supreme Court term in review event.
I’ll post a webcast link when it becomes available tomorrow.
“Justice Ginsburg’s Hobby Lobby dissent does not mention Koch Industries”
Interesting observation from Nicholas Rosenkranz.
“Hybrids”
Bauer on the new Second Circuit campaign finance case.
“Redistricting panel urges US Supreme Court to reject challenge from state lawmakers”
“Opinion: Ruling on false speech lets voters decide”
“Mistrust in North Carolina Over Plan to Reduce Precincts”
Important NYT report on how the end of voting rights preclearance after Shelby County has affected voting changes on the local level.
“Frankenstein Inc. Brought to You By Hobby Lobby”
“Book review: ‘On Democracy’s Doorstop,’ by J. Douglas Smith”
David Garrow:
The civil rights revolution of the 1960s is much remembered, especially in this 50th-anniversary year of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But the other transformational political revolution of the 1960s is almost entirely forgotten. Between 1962 and… Continue reading
“It’s time for progressives to reclaim the Constitution”
E.J. Dionne WaPo column.
#SCOTUS Divides Along Gender Lines in Post-#HobbyLobby Case Involving Contraception
The Court divided 6-3 in this order, with Justice Sotomayor writing a dissent for herself, Justice Ginsburg and Justice Kagan. Justice Breyer, who joined these three in dissent in Hobby Lobby, did not dissent in this order.
“Universalism and Civil Rights (with Notes on Voting Rights After Shelby)”
I blogged about this when it was draft, but another plug for a great one from Sam Bagenstos in the Yale Law Journal, especially relevant on the Voting Rights Amendments Act.
“How to use a super PAC to kill super PACs”
Brian Fung writes for WaPo.
“Here’s How We Can End Gerrymandering Once and for All”
Nick Stephanopoulos in TNR:
If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, then litigants who challenge gerrymandering must be mad. Last month, a federal court threw out the Texas Democratic Party’s claim… Continue reading