Category Archives: Supreme Court

Does the Chief Justice or Justice Gorsuch Have the Majority Opinion in Gill v. Whitford, the Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case?

April 24, 2018, 7:32 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Tea leaf reading from my colleague Leah Litman: https://twitter.com/LeahLitman/status/988783108194385920 Let me lay out a marker and say that if the Chief has it, I think he’s more likely to be the sixth vote to rein in partisan gerrymandering than the… Continue reading

Texas redistricting and the travel ban

April 24, 2018, 5:11 amredistricting, Supreme CourtJustin Levitt

(X-posted at Take Care.) Two of the last SCOTUS mega-cases of the Term share a little something. This morning, the Supreme Court hears argument in the Texas redistricting case. Tomorrow, the Court considers Trump’s travel ban. They’re both massive… Continue reading

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case Barring Montana Judicial Candidates from Taking, Using Political Party Endorsements

April 23, 2018, 8:17 amjudicial elections, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

No noted dissents on today’s order list. I had thought in reading the cert petition this one had a decent chance of a grant.

“Seven years later: Why everyone is mad in the Texas redistricting fight”

April 22, 2018, 9:14 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Alexa Ura with the lede of the day (though this curtain raiser is a few weeks old): Everyone in the Texas redistricting fight is pissed off.

“Scalia’s Goal Of Unwinding Voter Protections Is Becoming A Reality”

April 22, 2018, 9:01 pmScalia, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

[bumping to the top given the upcoming Tuesday argument in the Texas redistricting cases] I have written this piece for TPM Cafe. It begins: In a Supreme Court term already bursting with election cases, from two partisan gerrymandering disputes to… Continue reading

“Argument preview: Texas redistricting battles return to the court”

April 21, 2018, 11:51 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Amy Howe preview for SCOTUSBlog.

“U.S. Supreme Court wades into Texas political district fight”

April 21, 2018, 11:49 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Chuck Lindell for the Austin-American Statesman.

I Talked on the Yale Press Podcast about My New Book on Justice Scalia’s Legacy

April 19, 2018, 10:53 amScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

You can listen here.

Ken Jost Interviews Me About My New Book on Justice Scalia’s Legacy at the Washington Independent Review of Books

April 18, 2018, 7:12 amScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I appreciated the opportunity to do this Q & A with Ken at the Washington Independent Review of Books about my new book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption. I linked earlier to his review… Continue reading

Watch My Chicago-Kent Keynote About Justice Scalia and His Election Cases

April 12, 2018, 7:21 pmScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Alternative link. I have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming: Chicago-Kent Law Review) based on this talk. Here is the abstract: This Address builds upon ideas first presented in Richard L. Hasen, After Scalia: The Future of United States Election… Continue reading

Videos of Me Discussing My Book on Justice Scalia’s Legacy with Joan Biskupic, Adam Liptak & Sue Bloch, Adam Winkler, Erwin Chemerinsky, and Henry Weinstein (and National Constitution Center event)

April 12, 2018, 12:23 pmScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

In connection with the release of my new book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, I’ve given a number of talks. Some of these are now available on video: Mar. 5 (Video)… Continue reading

“High profile cases may pull Neil Gorsuch in different directions”

April 11, 2018, 9:06 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Steve Mazie for The Economist.

The “Whelan Way:” Ed Whelan’s Bad Faith and Nasty Attack on My Book on Justice Scalia’s Legacy

April 8, 2018, 6:31 pmScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I believe that the author of a book ordinarily should allow it to speak for itself, and let readers read the book and critiques before making their own determination about the relative merits of the book’s arguments. But Ed Whelan,… Continue reading

“An Antidote for Gobbledygook: Organizing the Judge’s Partisan Gerrymandering Toolkit into a Two-Part Test”

April 7, 2018, 8:55 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Sam Wang and Brian Remlinger have posted this timely draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court appears ready to limit extreme partisan gerrymanders. However, defining “extreme” is a challenging proposition, since individual states differ in their political… Continue reading