Search for: "Brett Thomas" Results 1001 - 1020 of 1,481
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
6 May 2019, 3:44 am by Edith Roberts
Briefly: Richard Wolf reports for USA Today on litigation in the Supreme Court over Trump administration initiatives, noting that since Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s “high-wire confirmation last fall, the justices have sought a lower profile, although not always with success. [read post]
5 May 2019, 8:18 am by John Floyd
Supreme Court where his mentor, President Trump, has placed two appointees—Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh. [read post]
4 May 2019, 6:38 pm by Tom Smith
With President Donald Trump’s nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh now on the court, conservatives are firmly in control as the justices take on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control and LGBT rights.Thomas, for the first time, is on a court where there are at least four votes for some “pretty radical” decisions, said political science professor Corey Robin, the author of a Thomas book due out in September. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 5:23 pm by Howard Bashman
“In keeping Brett Kavanaugh, George Mason made the right move”: Thomas Wheatley has this essay online at The Washington Post. [read post]
25 Apr 2019, 7:04 pm by Rory Little
The argument overall All the justices were engaged in this argument (to greater and lesser degrees; Justice Clarence Thomas did not speak). [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 8:11 am by Howard M. Wasserman
Arguments of respondent Smith Thomas O’Connor argued for Smith, insisting that “my head has been spinning from this case for a lot longer than yours. [read post]
11 Apr 2019, 7:05 am by Ronald Collins
Question: Do you think the chief justice is more judicially temperate than the other Republican appointees on the Supreme Court bench — Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh? [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 1:30 pm by John Floyd
  Justices Gorsuch and Thomas would permit those punishments today under their originalist view of the Eighth Amendment. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 4:07 am by Edith Roberts
At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman analyzes Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s “first set of votes on the Supreme Court” to determine whether they “present a picture that may (1) differentiate him from some of the other conservative justices and (2) help us understand where exactly he fits in the Court’s ideological spectrum. [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 2:15 pm by Amy Howe
Justice Clarence Thomas filed a concurring opinion in which he reiterated that, in his view, a method of execution only violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment if it is “deliberately designed to inflict pain. [read post]
29 Mar 2019, 4:10 am by Edith Roberts
” Kevin Daley reports at The Daily Caller that “Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented from Thursday’s 7-2 decision[, and] Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a brief separate statement concurring with the majority. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 9:24 pm by Ilya Somin
Nonetheless, in a 7-2 decision (with Justices Gorsuch and Thomas dissenting), the Supreme Court decided to stay the execution unless the state allows Patrick Murphy to have a Buddhist priest present in the execution chamber with him. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 9:11 pm by Amy Howe
Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch indicated that they would have denied Murphy’s request. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
In addition to the four Democratic appointees, Justice Brett Kavanaugh pretty clearly signaled that he regards the Flowers prosecution as deeply flawed. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 2:33 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Circuit (with then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh dissenting) issued its opinion ruling (1) that Lorenzo could not be held liable for a fraudulent misrepresentation under Rule 10b-5(b) because he did not “make” the statements at issue, but (2) nonetheless upholding, in a 2-1 vote, the Commission’s finding of liability under Rule 10b-5(a) and (c) against Lorenzo because the statements in Lorenzo’s emails were false or misleading and he possessed the requisite intent. [read post]