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15 Nov 2019, 3:41 am by Edith Roberts
” At NPR, Nina Totenberg and Shontee Pant report that “[a] vast hall filled with members of the conservative Federalist Society Thursday night welcomed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as a conquering hero, while outside on a large screen protesters played video from Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing of testimony by Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused him of sexual misconduct. [read post]
15 Nov 2019, 3:04 am by Walter Olson
[Federalist Society podcast with James May, Damien Schiff, and Jonathan Adler; related commentary, James Coleman] Bernie Sanders doesn’t really need legal arguments for retroactive criminal prosecutions if he’s got Jacobin on his side, right? [read post]
14 Nov 2019, 7:33 pm by Howard Bashman
“Brett Kavanaugh delivers first major speech at conservative Federalist Society gala”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report. [read post]
14 Nov 2019, 6:42 pm by Howard Bashman
” Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to get hero’s welcome from conservative Federalist Society. [read post]
14 Nov 2019, 9:43 am by Kent Scheidegger
The Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention runs from today through Saturday. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 9:37 am by David Post
[No, President Trump cannot invoke his Sixth Amendment rights in connection with House impeachment proceedings] Steven Calabresi is an important figure in the US legal profession, the holder of a named chair at a top-flight institution (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law) and the Co-founder and Board Chairman of the Federalist Society. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 3:42 am by Edith Roberts
Briefly: At Bloomberg, Greg Stohr reports that Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who “has done his best to keep a low profile in the 13 months since one of the most polarizing Senate confirmation fights in U.S. history,” “will be back in the spotlight when he gives the featured dinner speech on Thursday at the annual Washington convention of the Federalist Society, the powerful conservative legal group that helped put him on the court. [read post]
11 Nov 2019, 10:44 am by Steve Lubet
As a co-founder of the Federalist Society and the current chair of its board of directors, Calabresi ordinarily speaks with great authority on behalf of the conservative legal establishment, which makes this misstep all the more troubling. [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 4:02 am by Josh Blackman
And on 11/16/19 at 10:30 a.m., Randy and I will be signing books at the Federalist Society Lawyers Convention. [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
Doe] Summing up the last Court term: speech by Miguel Estrada and a short video with Ilya Shapiro for the Federalist Society; “Fearful that the Supreme Court will reject a broad interpretation of the CWA’s [Clean Water Act’s] scope, environmentalist groups have been seeking to settle the Maui case before the Court rules. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 12:00 pm by Ronald Collins
Question: In 1989, while he was chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Thomas published a law review article based on remarks delivered at a 1988 Federalist Society event. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 3:56 am by Edith Roberts
” At the Federalist Society blog, Elizabeth Slattery reviews Justice Neil Gorsuch’s recent book, “A Republic, If You Can Keep It,” which “offers insight into how the Justice puts his commitment to originalism, textualism, and judicial restraint into practice. [read post]
6 Nov 2019, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
Come out to my lunchtime law school talk at the U. of O. on employment law, sponsored by the school’s Federalist Society chapter [details] A Sixth Circuit opinion thus begins: “This court once observed, ‘[w]hen a party comes to us with nine grounds for reversing the district court, that usually means there are none. [read post]
4 Nov 2019, 3:01 am by Walter Olson
” [Paul Alan Levy] How courts draw the line on when menacing language triggers the “true threat” exception to First Amendment protection [Federalist Society teleforum with Eugene Volokh, John Elwood, and Michael Dreeben] “Should Congress Pass A ‘Deep Fakes’ Law? [read post]
3 Nov 2019, 7:27 am by Shirah Dedman
Hosted by UArk Law's Federalist Society, the panel discussion was led by Justin Pearson, managing attorney for The Institute for Justice in Florida. [read post]
1 Nov 2019, 3:01 am by Walter Olson
” [Chicago Tribune editorial; Allen Smith, SHRM; Fisher Phillips] “As predicted, the $15 wage is killing jobs all across the city” [New York Post editorial; Billy Binion, Reason; Michael Saltsman and Samantha Summers, Crain’s New York letter (defenders of hike playing fast and loose with numbers) ] The Federalist Society held a teleforum with Tammy McCutchen of Littler Mendelson on the lower courts’ reception of the Supreme Court’s decision one… [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 4:36 am by SHG
And no, not with the Federalist Society either, for those of you whose heads explode whenever you feel any negativity toward your tribe means positivity toward your hated enemy. [read post]
” Black sums it up best when he explains that “high crimes and misdemeanors” in the constitutional sense are offenses that are clearly wrong (even if not criminal) and “seriously threaten the order or political society as to make pestilent and dangerous the continuance in power of their perpetrator. [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 9:13 am by Benjamin Wittes
They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself. [read post]