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13 Jul 2016, 5:00 am by JB
As noted previously, I'm publishing a few discussion notes from the forthcoming supplement to the Brest Levinson casebook, which I prepare every summer following the end of the Supreme Court Term.This year I decided to write a short note for students taking them through the issues in the controversy over the appointment of Justice Scalia's successor. [read post]
12 Jul 2016, 5:00 am by John Jascob
These new provisions apply to any person, not just the limited actors of the pre-Dodd Frank rules. [read post]
16 Jun 2016, 9:30 pm by Justin Daniel
In a move aimed at shifting power over regulatory agencies to Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) unveiled a major plan to overhaul regulation that he said would force the federal government to “change the very way it writes the rules” by increasing transparency and accountability—part of Speaker Ryan’s larger “A Better Way” agenda that seeks to apply conservative principles to solving America’s challenges, the 57-page report would roll back… [read post]
17 Mar 2016, 5:43 am by Carter Scott
On January 4, 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, nominated Frank Murphy to succeed Justice Pierce Butler, who died on November 16, 1939. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 8:10 am by Michael Gerhardt
Indeed, the Senate confirmed Frank Murphy in January 1940 and Anthony Kennedy in 1988, while it confirmed William Brennan in 1957, after Eisenhower had named him as a recess appointment and nominee to the Court in 1956. [read post]
17 Feb 2016, 7:44 am by Jonathan H. Adler
November 1939 — Pierce Butler, filled in 1940 by Frank Murphy. 1956 — Sherman Minton, filled in 1957 by William Brennan (though seat initially filled by recess appointment in 1956). [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 5:38 pm by Timothy P. Flynn
Senator Cruz has remarked about an informal unwritten convention in American politics that a sitting but "lame duck" President does not get to have his SCOTUS nomination confirmed.In the 20th Century alone, there were six justices appointed and confirmed during a sitting president's last year in office before an election: Justice Anthony Kennedy in 1986; Michigan's Justice Frank Murphy in 1940; Justice Benjamin Cardozo in 1932; Justices Louis Brandeis and John… [read post]
13 Feb 2016, 8:55 pm by Amy Howe
On January 4, 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt (a Democrat) nominated Frank Murphy to replace Pierce Butler, who died on November 16, 1939; Murphy was confirmed by a heavily Democratic Senate on January 16, 1940, by a voice vote. [read post]
13 Feb 2016, 6:55 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
President Roosevelt then nominated Frank Murphy to the open seat on January 4, 1940, and Murphy was confirmed only twelve days later (and by a voice vote to boot!). [read post]
22 Dec 2015, 7:13 am by WIMS
Senate tonight overwhelmingly passed S.697, the "Frank R. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 5:19 am by WIMS
Senate tonight overwhelmingly passed S.697, the "Frank R. [read post]
14 Nov 2015, 5:36 pm by Daily Record Staff
Criminal procedure –Illegal sentence — Incorrect case number In 2008, appellant, Jonathon Frank Murphy, pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Calvert County to two counts of robbery, and was sentenced to ten years of incarceration for each count. [read post]