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9 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
But progressives and even most centrists think that the federal government needs the power to regulate health insurance markets, environmental pollution, and a host of other subjects that would be off-limits under the sort of restrictive view of the Commerce Clause advocated by libertarians and self-styled constitutional originalists like Justice Clarence Thomas. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University and co-author, most recently, of Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Thus, Justice Clarence Thomas pithily wrote in a concurrence in a 2005 ruling: “Jurisdictional rules should be clear. [read post]
17 May 2016, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
But at least in cases in which plaintiffs seek to compel executive enforcement of the law, there is a reason for the courts to limit Congress’s power.By contrast, as Justice Clarence Thomas suggests in a concurrence in Spokeo, the separation-of-powers concern is largely absent where Congress authorizes one set of private parties to sue another set of private parties. [read post]
19 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Amnesty Int’l USA, from which they dissented.To the extent that it is possible to view arguments about standing without reference to the merits, it looked like the best case was made by attorney Thomas Saenz, representing intervenors—three undocumented immigrant mothers living in Texas whose children are U.S. citizens and would be eligible for withholding of deportation under DAPA. [read post]
3 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
A former union-side labor lawyer, Democratic party activist, and civilian reviewer of the Los Angeles police, upon becoming a judge Reinhardt no more “strip[ped] down like a runner,” as Clarence Thomas disingenuously put it during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, than have more conservative jurists. [read post]
20 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University and co-author, most recently, of Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights. [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Following the victory of Thomas Jefferson and his Democratic-Republican Party in the election of 1800, the lame-duck Federalist-dominated Congress created new judgeships and other jobs, and packed them with Federalists. [read post]
4 Aug 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Professor Josh Blackman sees in Biskupic’s articles the hand of someone trying to valorize the Chief Justice and Justice Gorsuch at the expense of Justices Thomas and Kavanaugh. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 6:45 am by Jay Willis
At Townhall.com, Phyllis Schafly urges President Obama to appoint a military veteran to replace Justice Stevens should he choose to retire, writing that “[c]ases concerning the military appear every year before the Supreme Court, and our nation will not be well-served by a court lacking in military experience. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 7:58 am by Kiran Bhat
At the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, Jess Bravin reports on remarks by retired Justice John Paul Stevens on the effect that the decision by conservative Judge Jeffrey Sutton, who wrote an opinion rejecting a facial challenge to the Affordable Care Act in Thomas More Law Center v. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Joining Justice Gorsuch in the majority were Justices Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kavanaugh, although Justice Thomas did not join any of Justice Gorsuch’s opinion and Justices Sotomayor and Kavanaugh each joined only in part. [read post]