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27 Jun 2015, 2:08 pm
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21 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm
On Sunday, December 20, 2020, six days after the Electoral College met and cast 306 votes to (once again) confirm that Joe Biden is the President-elect and fifty-three days after the general election, the Trump campaign filed a petition for certiorari in the U.S. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 9:01 pm
The Supreme Court opened its new Term this month with a surprise: Instead of granting review in one of the cases in which the federal appeals courts had invalidated state laws banning same-sex marriage, or even “holding” those cases pending further developments in the lower courts, the High Court denied review. [read post]
24 Feb 2015, 9:01 pm
Last week, Federal District Judge Andrew Hanen enjoined the Obama Administration from implementing its new program of deferred action for several million undocumented immigrants. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm
Given the recent rapid swing in public opinion regarding same-sex marriage and sexual orientation more broadly, the Supreme Court’s historic ruling in Obergefell v. [read post]
2 Mar 2017, 6:26 pm
by Sam Bagenstos, Michael Dorf, Leah Litman, and Marty LedermanCross-posted at Dorf on Law.Last week the Trump administration withdrew the 2015 Department of Education guidance letter construing Title IX to require recipients of federal education funds to permit transgender students to use restrooms corresponding to their gender identity. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
The U.S. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
In an important 1961 article in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel—who was a leading constitutional scholar of his generation—defended the Supreme Court’s exercise of what he called “the passive virtues. [read post]
30 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm
In the aftermath of last year’s defeat at the polls, Donald Trump had difficulty finding reputable and competent lawyers to assist him in attempting to persuade the public, judges, and other government officials of his Big Lie—that he was the rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election. [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 9:01 pm
During last week’s oral argument in King v. [read post]
8 May 2023, 9:01 pm
The constitutional crisis caused by the Republicans’ attempts at extortion via the debt ceiling has now increased from a simmer to a boil. [read post]
28 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
After a week in which Republican Senate Judiciary Committee members Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, and others played to their QAnon-conspiracy-theory-believing base by outrageously insinuating that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has a soft spot in her heart for pedophiles, it was almost refreshing to hear Ben Sasse announce that he would vote against her confirmation to a seat on the Supreme Court because of a disagreement over judicial philosophy. [read post]
21 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm
Last week the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
On Monday, U.S. [read post]
8 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm
The nearly-universally negative reaction to the professional tennis world’s initially shameful treatment of Naomi Osaka has been encouraging. [read post]
15 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
Americans who were dismayed by the Supreme Court’s end-of-Term decision in Burwell v. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
According to an indictment that was unsealed in federal district court in Manhattan last week, New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez solicited and accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using his influence as ranking minority member and later chair of the Foreign Relations Committee to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Egypt, while also leaning on state prosecutors to drop a case against one of his patrons. [read post]
3 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm
On Wednesday, January 6, Congress will meet in joint session to confirm Joe Biden’s election as President, effective upon his inauguration two weeks later. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
For decades, conservative scholars and Justices have argued that the Supreme Court should adopt an “originalist” approach to constitutional interpretation. [read post]
25 May 2021, 9:01 pm
Last week, the Supreme Court announced that it would review a decision by the U.S. [read post]
