Mark Joseph Stern: What’s startling about Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch’s questions in particular is that they seem to betray fundamental principles of the court’s conservative bloc. Gorsuch has disclaimed reliance on international law, proclaiming: “We have our own tradition and… Continue reading

Howard’s got it.

Sasha Samberg Champion: https://twitter.com/ssamcham/status/1120754053573685250

It is here.

Joan Biskupic for CNN.

Mark Sherman for the AP.

Matt Barreto ,Chris Warshaw ,Matthew A. Baum ,Bryce J. Dietrich ,Rebecca Goldstein and Maya Sen in the Monkey Cage: The Trump administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census reaches the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Thus far,… Continue reading

Amanda Frost at SCOTUSBlog: On its face, Department of Commerce v. New York asks whether the government may add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 decennial census. But as Professor Justin Levitt explains in a forthcoming essay,… Continue reading

I really understood what Will was saying in this column until the last paragraph, which doesn’t seem to follow.

CNN reports.

““The Titanic was launched with less hubris and more preparation.” Justin Levitt, in his forthcoming Columbia Law Review article, Citizenship and the Census, as quoted in Adam Liptak’s NYT Sidebar preview of the upcoming oral argument in the census… Continue reading

“It was like ‘Jeopardy,'” said Dale Ho, director of voting rights at the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the lawyers who will argue the case in the Supreme Court. “They had the answer. They needed the question.” USA Today… Continue reading

ACS: On April 23rd, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Department of Commerce v. New York, a case that raises questions of administrative and constitutional law, and that has the potential to affect the accuracy of the… Continue reading