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18 Sep 2020, 8:23 pm by Josh Blackman
Even if a Republican President appoints two or three Justices, there is no way for Roberts to know how they'll vote. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 7:38 pm by Howard Bashman
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court’s Feminist Icon, Is Dead at 87; The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court, Justice Ginsburg’s pointed and powerful dissenting opinions earned her late-life rock stardom”: This obituary written by Linda Greenhouse will appear on the front page of Saturday’s edition of The New York Times. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 6:37 pm
And the backup plan can be that if Trump loses, they can accomplish the appointment after the election, before the new Senate and President are sworn in. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 6:26 pm by Amy Howe
Ginsburg prevailed by a vote of 8-1, but only four justices agreed with her that courts should apply strict scrutiny to gender-based classifications. [read post]
Justice Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993, and served more than 27 years on the bench. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 6:05 pm by Alicia Maule
September 18, 2020 — The Innocence Project mourns the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 5:11 pm by Eugene Volokh
[She had a remarkable career as a lawyer, professor, circuit court judge, and Supreme Court Justice.] [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 5:04 pm by Tom Smith
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the enigmatic, longtime Supreme Court justice who attained near cult-like status among progressive circles, died Friday at the age of 87 from complications surrounding metastatic pancreas cancer.The late Supreme Court Justice, who spent more than two decades on the bench in the highest court of the land, is survived by her two children, Jane Carol and James Steven Ginsburg.Ginsburg, who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill… [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 2:23 pm by Nathan Dorn
Born in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1779, Story read law with Samuel Sewall, who later became the chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; he practiced law in Salem, served in the the United States House of Representatives and the Massachusetts state legislature before becoming in 1812, at the age of 32, the youngest person in the history of the nation to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Court-Appointed Adviser in Michael Flynn Case Says Justice Dept. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 9:05 pm by Max Masuda-Farkas
A report by the International Drug Policy Consortium presented 20 social justice and human rights principles to guide jurisdictions in developing regulatory frameworks to legalize recreational marijuana. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 6:36 pm by Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes
In his remarks, Barr energetically defends the proposition that career Justice Department officials are supervised by an echelon of politically appointed officials; he argues that this is a feature, not a bug, because politically appointed officials are accountable to voters and to Congress in a fashion that career officials are not. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 5:57 pm by Anna Salvatore
And as he explained, presidential appointment and Senate confirmation of the United States Attorneys and the senior Department of Justice officials is what legitimizes their exercises of sovereign power. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 1:45 pm by Kalvis Golde
Although he felt he was too old to enlist in the military, Gorsuch still felt called to public service, and he happily accepted an offer to join the Department of Justice before his appointment to the bench, which he described as a happy “accident” and a chance to give back to a country that had been so good to him. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 12:34 pm by Aaron Mackey
Eric Koszyk is a licensed massage therapist who heavily relied on Craigslist’s advertising platform to find new clients and schedule appointments. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
His reforms include (1) instituting regular and predictable Supreme Court appointments, (2) term limits for Supreme Court Justices; (3) reducing the Supreme Court’s control over its own docket; and (4) sunrise provisions. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 4:09 am by James Romoser
And Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will receive an award from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia but will not participate in the event, a court spokeswoman tells Stohr. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 4:00 am by Administrator
Periodically on Thursdays, we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. [read post]