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2 May 2024, 11:25 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  Yesterday, Professor Segall laid out a series of examples showing that this is not a new turn in 2024 or even in the Trump era but goes back eighteen years to the beginning of the Roberts Court (I would suggest much earlier than that), which has been utterly lawless in its push for outcomes that serve the purposes of the Republican Party. [read post]
1 May 2024, 5:48 am by jonathanturley
When Robert Mueller appointed Andrew Weissmann as one of his top advisers, many of us warned that it was a poor choice. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 3:45 am by jonathanturley
While the media have largely focused on extreme examples of president-ordered assassinations and coups, the justices are clearly as concerned with the sweeping implications of the DC Circuit opinion. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 2:35 pm by Amy Howe
She observed that if a president who orders a coup is impeached and convicted by the Senate, but ordering the coup is determined to be part of his official conduct, he could not be prosecuted after leaving office under Trump’s theory if there were not a statute that explicitly applied to the president. [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 8:36 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  (Roberts and his radical colleagues, of course, declined to intervene.) [read post]
21 Mar 2024, 5:45 am by Douglas London
Putin is well aware of his country’s own history of coups orchestrated from within and uprisings inspired by charismatic figures. [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 3:49 am by Eric Segall
Of course.The Roberts Court in previous cases seemed to say tradition was important to constitutional interpretation, so here's the opinion's paen to tradition:Nor have the respondents identified any tradition of state enforcement of Section 3 against federal officeholders or candidates in the years following ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 11:37 am by Josh Blackman
[Justice Jackson explained that an ambiguous text should be interpreted in favor of expanding democracy. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 4:30 am by Michael C. Dorf
The Supreme Court in the Rehnquist/Roberts era has not been a restrained Court in the Bickelian or any other sense.Nonetheless, there will be a temptation for many of the Justices--including the Democratic appointees--to seize on one of the makeweight arguments in Trump v. [read post]
1 Feb 2024, 12:01 pm by Mark Graber
Disqualifying Donald Trump would be a coup for the Chief Justice’s public relations campaign. [read post]
13 Dec 2023, 4:54 am by Beatrice Yahia
Robert Greenall reports for BBC News. [read post]
28 Nov 2023, 5:56 am by Santiago Stocker
In contrast, during Nigeria’s 1999 transition election from military rule following the death of General Sani Abacha, and Zimbabwe’s 2018 transition election following the coup that ousted President Robert Mugabe, international observers noted widespread and significant irregularities in both cases. [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 4:04 am by Seán Binder
The United States declared earlier this month that there had been a military coup in Niger, which had partnered with the United States in the fight against Islamist insurgents. [read post]
28 Sep 2023, 2:22 am by Seán Binder
The junta came to power after two military coups last year. [read post]