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Case Summaries: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (Jan. 2024)

13 Feb 2024, 11:53 am by Phil Dixon

Cases of potential interest to state practitioners are summarized monthly. [read post]

North Carolina Criminal Law Blog - http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/

[Stephen Halbrook] Second Amendment Roundup: The Hawai'i Supreme Court Overrules Bruen

12 Feb 2024, 8:20 pm by Stephen Halbrook

On February 7, the Supreme Court of Hawai'i decided State v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

SCOTUS dispatch: ‘in the room where it happened’ for the oral arguments in the Trump v. Anderson ballot disqualification case

9 Feb 2024, 12:46 pm by Marissa Zupancic | U. Pittsburgh School of Law, US

On Thursday, Februrary 8, I sat in the courtroom of the Supreme Court of the United States on assignment for JURIST to hear oral arguments in Trump v. [read post]

JURIST - Paper Chase - https://www.jurist.org/news/

[Josh Blackman] Oral Arguments in Trump v. Anderson Part II: Justice Jackson Gets "Office under the United States"

9 Feb 2024, 11:37 am by Josh Blackman

[This is the second installment in a series about the oral argument in Trump v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

[Josh Blackman] All Blackman-Tillman Articles, Presentations, Amicus Briefs, Commentary, and Blog posts on Section 3 and Insurrection

7 Feb 2024, 7:47 pm by Josh Blackman

Tomorrow, on February 8, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral argument in Trump v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

[Jonathan H. Adler] Jack Goldsmith on Why SCOTUS Should Review the D.C. Circuit's Decision on Presidential Immunity

7 Feb 2024, 10:05 am by Jonathan H. Adler

Court of Appeals decision in United States v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

:@WilliamBaude: Section Three Is Not A "Political Question"

7 Feb 2024, 5:19 am by Will Baude

United States) or whether an issue lacks "judicially discoverable and manageable standards" to apply as law (such as political gerrymandering claims, as in Rucho v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

A User’s Guide to Trump v. Anderson, Part Six: The Two “Off-Ramp” Arguments Based Upon In re Griffin’s Case that Would Allow the Supreme Court to Avoid Deciding Whether Trump is Eligible to be President

6 Feb 2024, 3:36 pm by Marty Lederman

The state courts, for example, are not trying to enjoin Donald Trump from taking office. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

:@WilliamBaude: The Use and Misuse of Section Three's "Legislative History": Part II

6 Feb 2024, 7:20 am by Will Baude

For example, Lash, in discussing the question of ratifiers' views on "whether Section Three applied to future insurrections," states (at 45) that "[v]ery few ratifiers specifically addressed" the question, but those who did "came to different conclusions" on this point. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

[Jonathan H. Adler] DOJ Files Writ of Mandamus to End Juliana Climate Litigation

6 Feb 2024, 7:12 am by Jonathan H. Adler

United States. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

Taking Stock of ICJ Decisions in the ‘Ukraine v. Russia’ Cases—And implications for South Africa’s case against Israel

5 Feb 2024, 7:05 am by Oona A. Hathaway

The short answer is no. [read post]

Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/

A User’s Guide to Trump v. Anderson, Part Five: Trump’s Argument That He Did Not Engage in an Insurrection

4 Feb 2024, 6:29 pm by Marty Lederman

” 395 U.S. at 447; see also Counterman v. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

A User’s Guide to Trump v. Anderson, Part Four: Trump’s Argument That His Tenure as President Did Not Subject Him to Section 3 Because the President is Not an “Officer of the United States”

3 Feb 2024, 9:52 am by Marty Lederman

The short version is that it’s a stone-cold loser, not least because it would have absurd ramifications (such as that it would mean Jefferson Davis would’ve been disqualified from serving in virtually any federal or state office except the presidency and vice-presidency, and that the Foreign Emoluments Clause wouldn’t prohibit the President, Vice-President, and members of Congress from accepting titles, offices, gifts or emoluments from… [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

Supreme Court to decide whether insurrection provision keeps Trump off ballot

2 Feb 2024, 1:14 pm by Amy Howe

Earlier efforts to keep Trump off the ballot fell short. [read post]

SCOTUSblog - http://www.scotusblog.com/

Look Away: How the Supreme Court Could Set Aside Trump’s Disqualification for Insurrection under the Fourteenth Amendment

2 Feb 2024, 6:51 am by Dean Falvy

Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Trump v. [read post]

Verdict - http://verdict.justia.com/

:@WilliamBaude: Fighting the Meaning of Section Three

2 Feb 2024, 2:30 am by Will Baude

" Another may examine the suggestion that even if Trump is constitutionally disqualified from being President of the United States, that does not mean he is constitutionally ineligible to be elected as President of the United States. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

The Biden Administration Must Use Civil Rights Enforcement to Push Back Against Texas’s Racist Invocation of Invasion

1 Feb 2024, 6:05 am by Kate Huddleston

” In the 2012 touchstone decision Arizona v. [read post]

Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/

Skadden Discusses Securities Class Actions in 2024

31 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by renholding

We also await the Supreme Court’s decision in SEC v. [read post]

The CLS Blue Sky Blog - https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/

[Ilya Somin] My Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Trump v. Anderson—the Section 3 Disqualification Case

31 Jan 2024, 5:45 pm by Ilya Somin

(Tannen Maury/UPI/Newscom)Today, I filed an amicus brief in Trump v. [read post]