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29 Jul 2020, 5:04 pm by Josh Blackman
Gorsuch got his seat after Republicans stonewalled the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland and then Trump unexpectedly prevailed in the 2016 election. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 3:36 am by SHG
And while many are in shock that this 6-3 decision included the hated Justice Gorsuch, usurper of the seat from Merrick Garland, and Umpire C.J. [read post]
29 Apr 2020, 9:16 am by Charlotte Butash, Margaret Taylor
Judge Merrick Garland then asks Mooppan clarifying questions about the scope of the department’s argument in Mnuchin. [read post]
22 Jan 2020, 4:10 am
The world is watching.....Second-highest rated:Too bad Chief Justice Roberts did not see a need to admonish McConnell when the Senate refused to hold hearings or an up or down vote on Merrick Garland's nomination, leaving a Supreme Court seat open for a year. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 4:05 am by SHG
Roberts, “this is a delusion, if a pleasant one. [read post]
7 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland.Roberts introduces his discussion of the fine current efforts of his fellow federal jurists with a historical lesson from the Founding. [read post]
31 Dec 2019, 3:01 pm by Amy Howe
Roberts gave a shout-out to the “current Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Circuit” – Merrick Garland, who was nominated but never confirmed to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016 – for his longtime volunteer work as a tutor at a local elementary school. [read post]
17 Dec 2019, 7:06 am
That's from Brian Stelter.And:Everytime Neil Gorsuch trends remember Merrick Garland. [read post]
27 Nov 2019, 10:21 am by Adam Feldman
Do Barack Obama and John Roberts need a do-over? [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
I thought that the Senate should have confirmed Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court because Garland is a moderate. [read post]
13 Oct 2019, 7:20 pm by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
Between Justices Breyer and Roberts is Clarence Thomas, appointed by George H.W. [read post]
5 Oct 2019, 3:22 pm by Melanie Fontes
However, like we saw during the Merrick Garland debacle a few years ago, there is no mandate on the Senate to act in the Constitution. [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 4:30 am by Eric Turkewitz
Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court has denied Medicaid coverage to millions of poor people, neutered the Voting Rights Act, authorized new waves of voter suppression, unleashed the power of money for entrenched interests and would-be oligarchs, and opened the door to extreme partisan gerrymandering. [read post]
29 Jul 2019, 6:00 am by Quinta Jurecic
Democrats had harsh words for the president during Robert Mueller’s appearance before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. [read post]
27 Jul 2019, 4:39 pm by David Super
       Based on his handling of Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court, I do not expect Senator McConnell to convene an impeachment trial. [read post]
30 Jun 2019, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  My own mentor, Robert McCloskey, many years ago argued that all major Supreme Court decisions were ultimately evaluated against the quite separate categories first of what Lessig calls legal “fidelity,” i.e., the persuasiveness of the strictly legal arguments that are offered; second, the institutional and political contexts within which the Court is acting and its own recognition that it is ill-advised to be either too innovative or, indeed, static in its legal… [read post]
14 May 2019, 7:29 am by Andrew Hamm
The following is a series of questions prompted by the forthcoming publication of Michael Bobelian’s “Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court” (Schaffner Press, 2019). [read post]
23 Apr 2019, 5:00 am by Neil Siegel
Examples of such episodes include the President’s efforts to (1) fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, (2) curtail Mueller’s investigation, and (3) order White House Counsel Don McGahn to deny that the President had previously ordered McGahn to fire Mueller. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 7:29 am by Neil Siegel
Hawaii), I think there are meaningful differences in the kind of politics engaged in by, say, Chief Justice John Roberts and the kind engaged in by, say, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. [read post]