Important NYT analysis:
Hillary Rodham Clinton will seek out donors to her presidential campaign from a Democratic fund-raising landscape vastly altered since her first presidential bid and far more ideologically aligned with the party’s liberal activists.
Democrats now get far… Continue reading
Nate, whose work was cited multiple times in today’s decision, writes:
While observers of the Court will read into these opinions – as they should — larger principles of legislative deference or fundamental rights or respect for the democratic… Continue reading
Here is the order:
The application for stay presented to Justice Scalia and by him referred to the Court is granted, and the issuance of the mandate of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in case… Continue reading
Here’s my piece at Slate on today’s AZ redistricting ruling from the Supreme Court. It begins:
The Supreme Court ended its term Monday with another major rejection of conservative attempts to use wooden, textualist arguments to upset sensible policies. The… Continue reading
At Moritz:
“The majority contends that its counterintuitive reading of ‘the Legislature’ is necessary to advance the ‘animatingng principle’ of popular sovereignty.” With this sentence in his dissent (at page 14), Chief Justice Roberts gets to the heart of the… Continue reading
At Brookings:
The Court has upheld the right of those states to legislate electoral rules through a popular vote. Had the minority position prevailed, state laws governing many aspects of the electoral process would have been subject to constitutional… Continue reading