Category Archives: Supreme Court
Supreme Court May Decide to Hear Major Campaign Finance Case This Week
As early as Friday, the Supreme Court could announce it will hear a case that could put the nail into coffin of limits on campaign contributions to candidates. Here’s my preview in The Atlantic from last summer about this Paul… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court Considers Political Lies in the Bridgegate Case”
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy column.
“You Can Now Hear Elena Kagan Read Her Searing Dissent in the Partisan Gerrymandering Case”
Slate:
“For the first time ever,” Justice Elena Kagan declared on June 27, “this court refuses to remedy a constitutional violation because it thinks the task beyond judicial capabilities.”Kagan was reading a summary of her dissent in Rucho v. Common … Continue reading
Wall Street Journal Editorial Page Quotes My Tweet About Mayor Pete and Justice Kennedy Without Naming Me
Interesting:
Mr. Buttigieg criticized Ms. Warren and Beto O’Rourke for being too extreme on health care and guns at last week’s Democratic debate, and now he’s changing on the issue that ignited his unlikely candidacy. In an interview with Cosmopolitan,… Continue reading
“Supreme Court wipes out ruling on Michigan partisan gerrymander”
Pete Williams:
The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a challenge to maps drawn by Republicans for state legislative and congressional district boundaries in Michigan.The decision, which allows the GOP districts to stand, was expected because the court declared in… Continue reading
Levitt: “Nonsensus: Pretext and the Decennial Enumeration”
Justin Levitt deftly explains the importance of last term’s census case in the ACS Supreme Court Review.
Charles and Fuentes-Rohwer: “Dirty Thinking About Law and Democracy in Rucho v. Common Cause”
The New Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer piece in the ACS Supreme Court Review pulls no punches.:
Rucho is not an easy case to take seriously as doctrine. Chief Justice Roberts’s opinion is more redolent of a debater’s brief than… Continue reading
“Supreme Court Says Judges Are Above Politics. It May Hear a Case Testing That View.”
Adam Liptak NYT Sidebar:
The court will decide whether to hear the case, Carney v. Adams, No. 19-309, sometime this fall.Delaware’s Constitution says that judges affiliated with any one political party can make up no more than a “bare… Continue reading
Joan Biskupic Scoop: Chief Justice Roberts Was For Inclusion of the Citizenship Question on the Census Before He Was Against It
Joan confirms what many of us suspected from reading the opinions in Dep’t of Commerce v. NY:
Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote against President Donald Trump’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, but… Continue reading
“Koch-founded charity asks for Supreme Court help to keep donor list secret”
Reuters:
The Americans for Prosperity Foundation, a libertarian nonprofit founded by Charles and David Koch, filed a petition this week at the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to review a 2018 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court in a Polarized Era: Is Legitimacy at Risk?”
Logan Struther and Shana Kushner Gadarian have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
We examine the role that mass perceptions of the Supreme Court’s institutional nature—particularly how “political” it is—plays in assessments of its legitimacy. In a… Continue reading
I Was on The Hill.TV’s “Rising” Talking About My Atlantic Article About a New Campaign Finance Case Heading to the Supreme Court
Watch here:
The Atlantic article is: Unlimited Donations to Candidates, Coming Soon?
“Unlimited Donations to Candidates, Coming Soon? Former Solicitor General Paul Clement may get the Supreme Court closer to killing what’s left of campaign-finance limits.”
I have written this piece for The Atlantic. It begins:
During the George W. Bush administration, then–Solicitor General Paul Clement successfully defended the constitutionality of the 2002 McCain-Feingold law, which tightened electioneering and fundraising regulations. Can Clement now get traction… Continue reading