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27 Jun 2019, 3:53 pm by Mark Walsh
Yesterday, she received some friendly advice from Cornell University law professor Michael Dorf, who pointed out in his Dorf on Law blog certain ambiguities in how fractured Supreme Court opinions are identified, such as whether justices who join specified sections of an opinion also necessarily join, say, an introductory paragraph. [read post]
14 May 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
In his majority opinion in Alden, Justice Anthony Kennedy relied on the Tenth Amendment, a text that seems even less helpful than the Eleventh. [read post]
14 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
(I published Parts One, Three, Four, Five, and Six on Dorf on Law, and Part Two here on Verdict.)I wrote the first of these columns before we knew who would replace Kennedy on the Court. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Part 1,” which I published on Dorf on Law shortly after Kavanaugh’s nomination this summer, I focused only on the issue of reproductive rights, pointing out that it was not merely a question of whether Roe v. [read post]
8 Aug 2018, 4:05 am by Edith Roberts
” At Justia’s Verdict blog, Michael Dorf explains why he decided not to sign a letter in which 72 of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s former law clerks urged senators to confirm Kavanaugh. [read post]
7 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Last week, 72 of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s former law clerks signed a letter addressed to Senators Grassley and Feinstein, respectively the chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, urging the confirmation of another former Kennedy clerk, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to fill the vacancy created by the justice’s retirement. [read post]
23 Jul 2018, 8:34 am by Ilya Somin
The likely replacement of Justice Anthony Kennedy by Brett Kavanaugh, or some other new, more conservative Supreme Court justice indicates that the Court is likely to be more willing to uphold restrictions on abortion than in the past. [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
As Dorf explains, the argument does not work in either context.Kennedy’s objection during oral argument in Janus, however, was at least of a different degree if not entirely a different kind from Alito’s eventual written opinion. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The Supreme Court’s latest term of almost uniformly hard-right decisions ended last week with the surprise announcement that Justice Anthony Kennedy had decided to retire from the Court. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 5:34 am by Andrew Hamm
Former Kennedy clerks Jeffrey Pojanowski and Michael Dorf joined us. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 4:20 am by Edith Roberts
At Slate, Richard Hasen suggests that “[f]or Anthony Kennedy, America’s most powerful jurist, this term has brought unexpected and surprising expressions of powerlessness,” and that “[a]fter Tuesday’s ruling in the Trump travel ban case, it’s starting to feel like the end of his time on the court is near. [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 4:15 am by Edith Roberts
” For The Washington Post, Robert Barnes likens the dispositions to “punting after a punt — raising questions about the careful path the court is treading this term,” notably, “whether the delay is related to the plans of Justice Anthony M. [read post]
22 Jun 2018, 3:31 am by Edith Roberts
At Dorf on Law, Michael Dorf maintains that “Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion inadequately responds to the key objection by Chief Justice Roberts” in dissent that a change in states’ ability to tax out-of-state retailers should come from Congress. [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 4:22 am by Edith Roberts
” In a podcast at Constitution Daily, Jeffrey Rosen discusses “the Court’s blockbuster 2017-2018 term [with] two of America’s leading scholars of constitutional law: Michael Dorf and Ilya Shapiro. [read post]
8 Jun 2018, 4:13 am by SHG
Michael Dorf of Cornell Law School wrote of the opinion, “At best, it is a masterpiece of ducking the hard questions. [read post]