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5 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Last week, journalist Joan Biskupic reported that Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley—who heads the internal investigation into the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overruling the constitutional right to abortion—was seeking signed affidavits and mobile phone records from law clerks. [read post]
17 May 2016, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Monday’s Supreme Court ruling in Spokeo, Inc. v. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
The changes to the tax code passed by Congress last week overwhelmingly benefit corporations and wealthy individuals, although they also include measures that cut taxes on most middle-class taxpayers, albeit only temporarily. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
The only real question is whether those justices will have the courage of their stated convictions.Follow @dorfonlaw Michael C. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
In six weeks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will relinquish the gavel. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
We can start by listening.Follow @dorfonlaw Michael C. [read post]
3 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
John Hart Ely dedicated his extraordinarily influential 1980 book on judicial review, Democracy and Distrust, to Chief Justice Earl Warren. [read post]
31 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Florida is where truth goes to die.Follow @dorfonlaw Michael C. [read post]
7 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Last week, 72 of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s former law clerks signed a letter addressed to Senators Grassley and Feinstein, respectively the chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, urging the confirmation of another former Kennedy clerk, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to fill the vacancy created by the justice’s retirement. [read post]
20 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
The true threat is coming from inside the Supreme Court building.Follow @dorfonlaw Michael C. [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Last week, numerous progressives strongly criticized Pete Buttigieg after the Mayor of South Bend and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination supposedly told a reporter for Cosmopolitan that if he were to win the election, he would appoint justices to the Supreme Court in the mold of retired Justice Anthony M. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
In the wake of a Supreme Court ruling in a Michigan land dispute earlier this year, I explained in a column for this site that the non-ideological divisions between the justices on display in the case reflected disagreement on a deep question about the very nature of law: How general must a legislative command be to count as a law? [read post]
1 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
George Santos—who is scheduled to take the oath of office as a new member of Congress tomorrow—lied to the voters about nearly his entire biography. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Last year, in response to Donald Trump’s claim that an adverse judicial ruling was wrong because it was issued by an “Obama judge,” Chief Justice John Roberts replied that the federal judiciary does not consist of “Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. [read post]