Category Archives: Supreme Court

“In Potential Recusal Reversal, Neil Gorsuch Leaves Door Open to Hearing Supreme Court Cases Involving Billionaire Backer Philip Anschutz”

March 15, 2017, 7:37 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Important Charlie Savage: My Denver-based colleague Julie Turkewitz and I have been taking a look at the relationship between Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court nominee, and Colorado billionaire Philip Anschutz. The New York Times published it tonight and it will… Continue reading

“Neil Gorsuch Has Web of Ties to Secretive Billionaire”

March 14, 2017, 9:21 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

NYT: The publicity-shy billionaire Philip F. Anschutz inherited an oil and gas firm and built it into an empire that has sprawled into telecommunications, railroads, real estate, resorts, sports teams, stadiums, movies and conservative publications like The Weekly Standard and… Continue reading

“15 States File Amicus Brief Seeking Clarification On NVRA, Non-Voting And List Maintenance”

March 14, 2017, 7:31 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Doug Chapin: Fifteen states have filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to hear a case in order to clarify if and how states may use evidence of non-voting as a… Continue reading

Analysis: Texas Redistricting Decision Major Victory for Voting Rights Bar and May Pave Way for Texas to Be Back under Federal Supervision

March 11, 2017, 10:27 amDepartment of Justice, redistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Last night I linked to the extensive ruling and findings of fact and conclusions of law in a very long-running dispute about whether Texas’s congressional districting were a violation of the Voting Rights Act and/or the Constitution. I have now… Continue reading

NC Gov, AG File Reply Brief Arguing #SCOTUS Should Dismiss Cert. Petition in Controversial Voting Case

March 10, 2017, 7:09 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Brief: All of the petitioners in this case have moved to withdraw the pending petition. Thus, under normal operation of this Court’s rules, the petition should be dismissed. See S. Ct. R. 46.2(a). Seeking to derail this ministerial process, the… Continue reading

“Liberals to Senate Democrats: Step up the Gorsuch fight”

March 5, 2017, 8:43 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Politico: Liberal advocacy groups are issuing a sharp rebuke to Senate Democrats, who they say have failed to sufficiently fight President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick. In a letter to be delivered Monday and obtained by POLITICO, 11 progressive groups… Continue reading

Adam Liptak on Judge Gorsuch with a Style Like Kennedy’s But an Ideology Like Scalia’s

March 4, 2017, 10:12 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Interesting read: The White House hopes the bond matters to Justice Kennedy, too. In choosing Judge Gorsuch to replace Justice Antonin Scalia and floating the names of other former Kennedy clerks for the next Supreme Court vacancy, administration officials… Continue reading

Bauer Sympathetic to J. Gorsuch’s Rethinking of Standard for Reviewing Contribution Limits

March 3, 2017, 6:17 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Bob is a lot more sympathetic to the project than I was in my recent CNN Opinion piece on Judge Gorsuch’s jurisprudence.

Bethune-Hill News Roundup

March 1, 2017, 5:37 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

NYT WaPo AP Bloomberg LAT USA Today Reuters WSJ HuffPo Amy Howe (SCOTUSBlog) Politico More to come

“Why Gorsuch could lead court in wrong direction”

March 1, 2017, 2:42 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

I have written this piece for CNN Opinion. It begins: It’s no big deal, the thinking goes, that the Senate seems likely to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, as President Trump urged in his speech Tuesday night.… Continue reading

Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court Decides Bethune-Hill, the VA Racial Gerrymandering Case

March 1, 2017, 7:07 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Kennedy (joined by the Court’s liberals and Chief Justice Roberts) has affirmed in part and reversed in part the Virginia racial gerrymandering case, Bethune-Hill v. Va. State Board of Elections . Justice… Continue reading

“Rescheduled:” #SCOTUS Takes North Carolina Voting Case Off March 3 Calendar

February 28, 2017, 2:42 pmSupreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

The dispute between the Governor/AG and Legislature as to who speaks for North Carolina and whether its cert. petition can be withdrawn has gotten the Supreme Court’s attention. There is now a docket notation that the consideration of the case’s… Continue reading

New Review of My Book, Plutocrats United, in the Law and Politics Book Review

February 28, 2017, 2:09 pmcampaign finance, Plutocrats United, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Here, by Alex Keena.

Breaking: NC General Assembly Will Object to Dismissing #SCOTUS Suit over Strict NC Voting Law, Moves to Add as Petitioner

February 27, 2017, 12:48 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Well, we’ve been expecting this. Here’s a motion to be filed at the Supreme Court objecting to NC AG’s motion to dismiss the cert. petition in the controversial NC voting case. And here’s a motion to add the Legislature and… Continue reading