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28 Oct 2019, 3:31 am
” Briefly: For The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin notes that “Justice [Harry] Blackmun made detailed assessments of Supreme Court advocates, grading them like law students”: Future justices John Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Samuel Alito received GPAs of 2.0, 2.8 and 2.5, respectively. [read post]
26 Oct 2019, 5:57 am
” Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report. [read post]
24 Oct 2019, 4:03 am
” Additional coverage comes from Jess Bravin for The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), who reports that Ginsburg “will receive the prize at a private ceremony in New York on Dec. 16,” and that she “plans to donate the cash to charities and nonprofits. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 7:35 pm
“Institute Gives $1 Million Prize to Justice Ginsburg; Money will be distributed to charities and nonprofits she designates”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report. [read post]
19 Oct 2019, 8:20 am
“Supreme Court to Consider Challenge to Quick Deportations of Some Seeking Asylum; Case stems from petition from Sri Lankan man who argued he hadn’t been given a meaningful opportunity to make his plea for asylum”: Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal have this report. [read post]
16 Oct 2019, 4:54 pm
Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Considers D.C. [read post]
16 Oct 2019, 3:55 am
” Jess Bravin and Andrew Scurria report for The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) that “[t]he arguments largely revolved around whether the board’s functions were akin to those of a state or local agency rather than a federal one. [read post]
15 Oct 2019, 7:42 pm
” Jess Bravin and Andrew Scurria of The Wall Street Journal report that “Supreme Court Appears Likely to Back Structure of Puerto Rico Debt-Relief Board; Issue is whether Congress erred in allowing members to serve without Senate confirmation. [read post]
15 Oct 2019, 4:00 am
” For The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Jess Bravin narrates a visual feature based on archived notes from the justices’ private conferences that “allow[] one to be a virtual fly on the wall as the nation’s most powerful jurists decided landmarks of American law. [read post]
12 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm
“Inside Notes Illuminate How Supreme Court Decided Major Cases; A new project is digitizing justices’ behind-the-scenes scribbles, allowing the public a view as the nation’s most powerful jurists decided landmarks of American law”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report. [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 4:05 am
” At The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall report that “[t]he outcome will depend on whether any of the court’s five conservatives find that the concepts of sexual orientation or gender identity cannot logically be segregated from the ban on sex discrimination. [read post]
8 Oct 2019, 2:56 pm
’” Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal report that “Justices Spar Over Gay Employee Cases; Arguments weigh whether 1964 Civil Rights Act forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. [read post]
8 Oct 2019, 4:07 am
” Jess Bravin reports for The Wall Street Journal that in both Ramos and Kahler, “the court appeared inclined to buttress the rights of criminal defendants against states that had reduced historic protections for the accused, with only Justice Samuel Alito, a former U.S. attorney who generally sides with law enforcement, expressing clear sympathy for prosecution positions. [read post]
7 Oct 2019, 4:02 am
” Additional coverage of the new term comes from Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin for The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Shannon Bream and Bill Mears at Fox News, Nina Totenberg at NPR, Richard Wolf for USA Today, David Savage for the Los Angeles Times, and Kevin Daley at The Daily Caller, who reports that the court is facing a “gauntlet of highly polarizing disputes that could make the relative comity of its previous term impossible to replicate. [read post]
6 Oct 2019, 6:00 pm
Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal report that “Supreme Court to Weigh Hot-Button Issues Amid Tense Political Backdrop; New term beginning Monday will include cases on abortion, gay rights, gun rights and DACA. [read post]
3 Oct 2019, 3:45 am
” For The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Jess Bravin describes some of the “15,000 handwritten documents that Timothy Johnson, a political-science professor at the University of Minnesota, has copied over two decades from archives housing the papers of former justices,” including notes passed among the justices while on the bench, that will be part of a new online database. [read post]
26 Sep 2019, 3:59 am
Jess Bravin reports for The Wall Street Journal that “Chief Justice John Roberts rejected criticism of the Supreme Court as a political body” in recent public remarks, “pointing to disagreements between President Trump’s two appointees as evidence that the justices do not always toe a party line. [read post]
25 Sep 2019, 7:26 pm
Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Chief Justice Roberts Defends Supreme Court Against Partisan Criticism; Results of cases show Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh don’t ‘march in lockstep,’ he says. [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 5:20 am
“Trump Administration Looks to Supreme Court to Rein In Consumer Finance Agency; The CFPB was created under the Dodd-Frank Act in the wake of the mortgage-lending crisis”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report. [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 3:54 am
” Jess Bravin reports for The Wall Street Journal that “Tuesday’s brief, filed by Solicitor General Noel Francisco, reverses the position the CFPB took before the lower courts, continuing the Trump administration’s effort to reduce the bureau’s power and roll back other provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act that the banking industry complains are too burdensome. [read post]
