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20 Jan 2019, 11:03 pm
After all, “nobody was demanding that John Paul Stevens retire,” and he was 90. [read post]
17 Jan 2019, 2:07 pm
The next column shows the number of times the liberal bloc was in the majority with the aid of the most common swing vote (The one observation in 1990 involved both White and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor siding with the liberals.). [read post]
4 Jan 2019, 2:11 pm
Four justices – Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Clarence Thomas – believed that courts should stay out of partisan-gerrymandering claims, because it is too hard to come up with a manageable test to determine when politics plays too influential a role in redistricting, while four of their colleagues – Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and Stephen Breyer… [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 10:03 am
It is (well past) time for the Supreme Court to come clean about what it is actually doing in “religion in the public square” cases and to scrap both the three-part Lemon “test” that bar examiners and lower courts are required to pretend is the relevant doctrine and the “no endorsement” rule that was grafted onto it by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor – a “refinement,” she called it – in the 1980s. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 11:11 am
In terms of more modern justices of interest, Kennedy overturned multiple decisions authored by Justice John Paul Stevens; Justice Clarence Thomas overturned several of Kennedy’s decisions; and several justices, including Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Antonin Scalia, overturned multiple decisions written by Brennan. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 11:25 am
Next was Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, averaging a difference of over seven. [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University and co-author, most recently, of Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights. [read post]
24 Oct 2018, 5:34 am
* As she steps away from public life in the wake of her dementia diagnosis, rather than banish retired Justice Anthony Kennedy to the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor bequeathed her chambers to him. [read post]
23 Oct 2018, 8:31 am
” Later today, the Supreme Court released statements from all eight of the current associate justices, as well as retired Justices David Souter, John Paul Stevens and Anthony Kennedy. [read post]
19 Oct 2018, 12:55 pm
” Although the sitting justices projected a united front, retired Justice John Paul Stevens felt no such obligation to match his message to his former colleagues’. [read post]
1 Oct 2018, 1:34 pm
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her intention to retire in July 2005, after the end of October Term 2004. [read post]
25 Sep 2018, 11:56 am
Along with Thomas, Gorsuch and Roberts, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked fewer questions on average than Justice Byron White, and Justice Elena Kagan asked fewer questions than Justice John Paul Stevens. [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 2:59 pm
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10 Aug 2018, 1:01 am
Supreme Court pose for a group portrait in 1994 (from left, front): Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Associate Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy; (from left, back) Associate Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter, Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer. [read post]
30 Jul 2018, 3:25 am
Now 98 years old, Stevens appears to remain in good health. [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 8:58 am
Justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O’Connor, both seen as swing justices, also both voted predominantly with the conservatives, although to a lesser degree than some of their more conservative counterparts. [read post]
4 Jul 2018, 1:30 pm
Beiner, When Courts Run Amuck: A Book Review of Unequal: How America’s Courts Undermine Discrimination Law by Sandra F. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm
Less broadly, Justice John Paul Stevens infamously “failed the First Amendment” with his dissenting 1989 vote that would have allowed governments to ban flag burning, a view that he did not change in subsequent years.The point is that finding exceptions to rules does not mean that there are no rules. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 10:19 am
Among the most recent departures from the court, Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and John Paul Stevens have given their papers to the Library of Congress, but those collections remain closed until some future date specified by the individual justices. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 8:27 am
In a series of subsequent decisions, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor urged a more robust reading of the individualization requirement, arguing that capital defendants should be afforded “full consideration” of their mitigating evidence. [read post]
