Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele thinks he's found a zinger to use against President Obama's just-announced Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan. But zingers have a nasty habit of boomeranging. Here's Steele … [Read more...]
Obama apparently will nominate Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court
NYT: President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation's 112th justice, choosing his own chief advocate before the Supreme Court to join it in ruling on cases critical to his view of the country's future, Democrats … [Read more...]
Exactly what we don’t need: a “liberal Scalia”
A "liberal Scalia" is exactly what those who would like to see a less right-wing Court don't need. Oh, yes, we need an intellectual heavy-weight, and it would be great to have someone who has a gift for rhetorical flourishes -- … [Read more...]
Stevens retiring, effective this summer
Story here. Let the speculation begin (or continue). … [Read more...]
Well… it was a nice democracy, while it lasted…
Citizens United tried, in the District Court, to make this a 'facial test' and, basically, were laughed at. So they dropped the facial challenge and brought it to the Supremes as an 'as applied' challenge ('facial challenge' is … [Read more...]
Supreme Court opens the floodgates to corporate and union money in elections
This is huge, folks. The Supreme Court today, by the totally predictable 5-4 vote, overruled a 20-year old case and held, instead, that corporations and unions may use money from their treasuries to make independent election-related … [Read more...]
Losing the Supreme Court’s Protestant seat
It has come to my attention that, if Justice Stevens does retire from the Supreme Court this year and is replaced by Solicitor General Elena Kagan, we will, for the first time in American history, be faced with a Supreme Court without a … [Read more...]
Justice Stevens thinking hard about retiring?
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who turns 90 in April, has hired only one law clerk for the 2010-2011 term (which begins in October 2010). Supreme Court Justices are entitled to four. Retired Justices are entitled to … [Read more...]
Supreme Court ends its term (sort of), reversing Sotomayor in the Ricci case
As JohnD has already noted, the Supreme Court today reversed the Second Circuit decision (in which SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor joined) that had upheld the city of New Haven's decision to throw out a test that appeared to favor white … [Read more...]
Massachusetts backed Alaska in yesterday’s Supreme Court DNA case
A lot of people are upset about yesterday's Supreme Court decision in District Attorney's Office v. Osborne holding that there is no post-conviction constitutional right to potentially exculpatory DNA evidence. Not the Massachusetts … [Read more...]
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