” At The Hill, Lydia Wheeler reports that “[s]tare decisis, the Latin term that means courts should ‘stand by things decided,’ has jumped to the forefront of the Senate debate over President Trump’s next pick to the Supreme Court. [read post]

” Additional coverage comes from David Nakamura and Robert Barnes for The Washington Post, Pete Williams at NBC News, Lydia Wheeler and Rafael Bernal at The Hill, Stef Kight at Axios, Josh Gerstein and Ted Hesson at Politico, Jessica Gresko at the Associated Press, Alice Ollstein at Talking Points Memo, Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung at Reuters, Chris Geidner at BuzzFeed News, and Brent Kendall for The Wall Street Journal, who reports that “[t]he decision is likely to… [read post]

For the Symposium on Mark Tushnet, Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law (Yale University Press 2020).Amanda Hollis-BruskyTaking Back the Constitution is an ambitious book that covers a wide swath of territory in its attempt to explain, critique and offer alternatives to the contemporary Supreme Court and its constitutional agenda. [read post]

Kavanaugh Holiday Party Appearance Raises More Ethics Questions Bloomberg Law – Lydia Wheeler | Published: 12/12/2022 It was reported that Justice Brett Kavanaugh attended a private holiday party at the home of Matt Schlapp, who is chairperson of the Conservative Political Action Coalition, and attendees included Stephen Miller, whose group America First Legal Foundation has interests in cases now pending before the court. [read post]