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26 Nov 2021, 9:30 pm by ernst
Barrett's substantial post on the case to The Jackson List. [read post]
15 Nov 2021, 7:55 am by James Romoser
Here’s the Monday morning read: In Death Penalty Cases, an Impatient Supreme Court (Adam Liptak, The New York Times) The Amy Coney Barrett Effect: An Emboldened Conservative Legal Movement (Matt Ford, The New Republic) What Barrett’s rise has meant for the Supreme Court (Julie Cohen, The Washington Post) Why the Supreme Court needs an ethics code (Nicholas Rostow, Roll Call) Justices Balk at Inmate’s Religious Liberty Case (Kenneth Jost, Jost on Justice)… [read post]
12 Nov 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
FEC Eases Federal Contractors-Turned-Political Donors’ Path Bloomberg Government – Kenneth Doyle | Published: 11/5/2021 The first $100,000 contribution to a pro-Donald Trump super PAC by an affiliate of the corrections company GEO Group came in 2016, a day after the Obama administration announced it would end federal use of private prisons. [read post]
6 Aug 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Trump to Acting AG, According to Aide’s Notes: ‘Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me’ MSN – Devlin Barrett and Josh Dawsey (Washington Post) | Published: 7/30/2021 Then-President Trump pressed top Justice Department officials last year to declare the election was corrupt even though they had found no instances of widespread fraud so he and his allies in Congress could use the assertion to overturn the results. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 6:34 am by James Romoser
Here’s the Monday morning read: ‘Complete, dysfunctional chaos’: Oklahoma reels after Supreme Court ruling on Indian tribes (Annie Gowen & Robert Barnes, The Washington Post) Trump’s appointees are turning the Supreme Court to the right with different tactics (Joan Biskupic, CNN) The Supreme Court Needs to Be Cut Down to Size (Jamelle Bouie, The New York Times) Amy Coney Barrett Is Trying to Tell Us Something (Noah Feldman, Bloomberg) High Court Skips Equal… [read post]
23 Jul 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Justice Department Curtails Seizure of Reporters’ Phone, Email Records in Leak Investigations MSN – Devlin Barrett (Washington Post) | Published: 7/19/2021 Attorney General Merrick Garland sharply limited how and when prosecutors can secretly obtain reporters’ phone and email records, formalizing a Biden administration decree that the government would stop using secret orders and subpoenas for journalists’ data to hunt for leakers. [read post]
20 Jul 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Campaign Finance National: “Zombie Campaigns-to-Be Hold Millions in Cash with Murky Rules” by Kenneth Doyle and Nancy Ognanovich for Bloomberg Government Elections National: “2020 Presidential Polls Suffered Worst Performance in Decades, Report Says” by Dan Balz (Washington Post) for MSN California: “Who’s In? [read post]
3 May 2021, 7:52 am by James Romoser
(Kenneth Jost, Jost on Justice) Petty Sticklerism That Fortuitously Benefits An Undocumented Immigrant is Still Petty Sticklerism (Michael Dorf, Dorf on Law) Supreme Court’s Ethics Problems Are Bigger Than Coney Barrett (Timothy O’Brien, Bloomberg) Republicans say court packing is ‘unconstitutional. [read post]
7 Apr 2021, 12:23 pm by Adam Faderewski
• Frank Barrett Davis, 92, of Houston, died November 28, 2020. [read post]
26 Feb 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Activist Shareholders Pressing Companies to Disclose More of Their Political Activity after Capitol Attack Washington Post – Tory Newmyer | Published: 2/23/2021 The insurrection at the Capitol continues to reverberate for major corporations that make campaign contributions. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 6:18 am by James Romoser
(Kenneth Jost, Jost on Justice) Race Masked in Colorblind Administrative Procedures (Ming Hsu Chen, The Regulatory Review) Protect Religion’s Place in the Public Square (Ismail Royer, Real Clear Religion) Preview of U.S. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 9:30 pm by ernst
   The Washington Post's "Made by History" section ran a few different takes on Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination this week: one by Kenneth Cohen (University of Delaware) and another by Simon Gilhooley (Bard College). [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 6:39 am by James Romoser
Here’s a round-up of other Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Understanding the Pennsylvania GOP Hail Mary Fighting the Extended Deadline for Receipt of Mailed Ballots, and the Awful Pressure that the GOP’s Petition Could Put on Soon-to-Be Justice Barrett (Rick Hasen, Election Law Blog) Barrett will complicate John Roberts’ goal of keeping the Supreme Court out of politics (Joan Biskupic, CNN) Barrett Could Be Decisive in… [read post]
20 Oct 2020, 1:16 pm by Lorenzo d’Aubert, Eric Halliday
” To Judge Kenneth Ripple in dissent and Chief Judge Diane Wood dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc, Barrett’s interpretation of consular nonreviewability and Mandel went too far, abdicating judicial responsibility to ensure the executive branch executes immigration process according to statute and the Constitution. [read post]
19 Oct 2020, 6:22 am by James Romoser
Other Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: The Supreme Court We Need (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Review of Books) The Dishonesty of Amy Coney Barrett’s “Textualist” Pose (Simon Lazarus, The New Republic) The Most Useless Job Interview Ever (David Cohen, Rolling Stone) Barrett Won’t Pull Away From Trump’s Coattails (Kenneth Jost, Jost on Justice) Week Two of the 2020 Supreme Court Term: Oral Argument Analysis… [read post]