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21 Feb 2017, 3:18 am
” In Harvard Magazine, Lincoln Caplan profiles Justice Stephen Breyer, who “became the leading member of the Court to challenge Scalia about the role of the Court in American governance, the most important dispute in American law”; in “an era when it has been smart politics to attack government itself, his project has been to explain ‘the Supreme Court’s role in maintaining a workable constitutional system of government’ (his… [read post]
17 Feb 2017, 8:52 am
" Lincoln Caplan has this article (available online in both HTML and PDF formats) in the March-April 2017 issue of Harvard Magazine. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 4:25 am
” In Supreme Court Brief (subscription required), Tony Mauro interviews Lincoln Caplan, the author of a recent book about the court, who maintains that “Justices, by and large, reflect the liberal or conservative inclinations that presidents expect them to have when picking them, because their track record in the law and their professional experience reflect their ‘priors’—the attitudes, beliefs, dispositions, impulses, and so on that they bring to a… [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 11:39 am
His abilities are being praised by many, and the fact that he has only argued one case in the high court is virtually irrelevant.The fact that Conway has only argued once at the Supreme Court is not rare or disqualifying, according to Yale Law School scholar Lincoln Caplan, author of "The Tenth Justice," a 1997 book about the solicitor general's office. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 3:16 am
” In The New Yorker, Lincoln Caplan remarks that “when it comes to the death penalty,” “the U.S. has ended up in some rough company,” ranking “with countries that conspicuously are not in full compliance with their international obligations”; he notes that in “the past generation, the number of countries that have stopp[ed] using the death penalty has doubled, from about fifty to about a hundred,” and that if the Supreme Court… [read post]
1 Jan 2017, 6:55 pm
In his recent New Yorker article titled "The Growing Gap Between The U.S. and the International Anti-Death Penalty Consensus," Lincoln Caplan examines the recent vote by the U.S. against the U.N. resolution calling for an international moratorium on the death... [read post]
1 Jan 2017, 6:55 pm
In his recent New Yorker article titled "The Growing Gap Between The U.S. and the International Anti-Death Penalty Consensus," Lincoln Caplan examines the recent vote by the U.S. against the U.N. resolution calling for an international moratorium on the death... [read post]
1 Jan 2017, 6:55 pm
In his recent New Yorker article titled "The Growing Gap Between The U.S. and the International Anti-Death Penalty Consensus," Lincoln Caplan examines the recent vote by the U.S. against the U.N. resolution calling for an international moratorium on the death... [read post]
31 Dec 2016, 1:52 pm
"The Growing Gap Between the U.S. and the International Anti-Death-Penalty Consensus": Lincoln Caplan has this post online today at The New Yorker. [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 1:25 pm
Now comes the latest entry, Lincoln Caplan’s “The Political Supreme Court. [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 4:21 am
’” Lincoln Caplan also looks at Moore in The New Yorker, observing that “Texas has been responsible for more than a third of the country’s executions” since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, largely because of “the state’s unique and grudging approach in cases where the defendant claims intellectual disability. [read post]
30 Nov 2016, 3:14 pm
" Lincoln Caplan has this post online today at The New Yorker. [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 4:07 pm
" The National Constitution Center has posted online at YouTube the video of this event from earlier today featuring Robert Barnes, Lincoln Caplan, and Marcia Coyle. [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 6:24 pm
" Lincoln Caplan has this cover story in the November-December 2016 issue of Harvard Magazine. [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 4:58 am
” In Harvard Magazine, Lincoln Caplan discusses a recent book on the Supreme Court and the death penalty, whose authors “explain why, for the most pragmatic of reasons, the Court should end capital punishment in the United States,” and provide an “account of what the country should never forget about the racial pathologies of the death penalty that provide an indelible moral basis for abolishing it, as well. [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 6:27 am
., the National Constitution Center will host a panel discussion on “The Supreme Court in Transition” with legal journalists Robert Barnes, Lincoln Caplan, and Marcia Coyle. [read post]
11 Oct 2016, 3:44 am
” At The American Prospect, Lincoln Caplan points out that 2016 marks the court’s “48th year in a row under the leadership of a conservative chief justice appointed by a Republican president,” arguing that “the Court has been at least as influential in the rightward shift of American law and policy as elections and the presidents and legislatures they elected” and observing that if “she is elected, Hillary Clinton will have the chance to… [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 6:17 pm
" Lincoln Caplan has this article in the Fall 2016 issue of The American Prospect magazine. [read post]
26 Sep 2016, 4:43 am
’” In The New Yorker, Lincoln Caplan argues that the Supreme Court should agree to review an appeal of a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling halting an investigation into Governor Scott Walker’s 2012 recall campaign, maintaining that if “the Supreme Court does not review this case and begin to repair the rule of law in Wisconsin, it will endorse the rule of politics that has done so much damage to the state—and is doing so much damage to the country. [read post]
24 Sep 2016, 6:33 pm
"Why the Supreme Court Should Take On Political Corruption in Wisconsin": Lincoln Caplan has this post online at The New Yorker. [read post]
