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17 Apr 2024, 6:39 am by Ellena Erskine
Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Supreme Court gives skeptical eye to key statute used to prosecute Jan. 6 rioters (Nina Totenberg, NPR) Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s arguments over obstruction charge used against January 6 rioters (John Fritze, Marshall Cohen, Tierney Sneed, & Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN) Justice Clarence Thomas misses Supreme Court arguments (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News) Supreme Court, in an emergency order, lets Idaho enforce ban on transgender care… [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 2:33 pm by Howard Bashman
“Supreme Court Justice Does Whatever He Felt Like Doing; Clarence Thomas provided no explanation for his absence from oral argument on Monday, which is somehow among his least offensive displays of contempt for the very concept of accountability”: Madiba K. [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 1:34 pm by Amy Howe
Justice Clarence Thomas told Prelogar that “there have been many violent protests that have interfered with proceedings. [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 1:10 pm by Ilya Somin
Here are some key passages from the unanimous Supreme Court ruling written by Justice Clarence Thomas: The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment states: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 9:42 am
Justice Clarence Thomas, who returned to the bench after an unexplained absence on Monday, asked whether the government was engaging in a kind of selective prosecution. 'There have been many violent protests that have interfered with proceedings,' he said. 'Has the government applied this provision to other protests? [read post]
However, this 34-page decision included concurrences by Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 3:38 pm by Amy Howe
In a 13-page concurring opinion joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, Justice Neil Gorsuch – a frequent critic of the kind of broad, or “universal,” injunctions entered by the district court in this case – explained that all of the factors that courts consider when deciding whether to grant temporary relief point in the state’s favor. [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 3:01 pm by Joe Patrice
Clarence Thomas made like a massive financial gift on his annual disclosure forms and just didn't show up. [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 8:52 am by Guest Author
  But as Corner Post acknowledged at oral argument in response to questioning from Justice Clarence Thomas, neither Herr nor any other decided case offers the general rule that the six-year limitations period accrues for APA claims when a plaintiff acquires standing. [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 5:20 am by Michael C. Dorf
Sandwiched between the police beating of King and the riots that followed the acquittal of the police who beat him was the explosive Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Clarence Thomas, who cowed eleven Democratic Senators into joining all but two Republicans to vote to confirm him by depicting the Judiciary Committee's attention to Anita Hill's allegations as a "high-tech lynching. [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 10:25 am by Chris Rufo | New England Law, US
Leo has been under investigation for paying Ginni Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work over a decade ago, first reported by the Washington Post. [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 9:56 am by Tom Smith
Durbin has been looking into ethics issues at the high court for roughly a year following a series of reports that revealed Justice Clarence Thomas took luxury trips with a Republican megadonor, Harlan Crow, and did not disclose them. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 9:00 pm by Gary J. Simson
Somehow, though, Justice Clarence Thomas seems not to have gotten the message. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 12:21 pm by Marc DeGirolami
But it is often more usefully and accurately understood as what I call “traditionalist”: In areas of jurisprudence as various as abortion, gun rights, free speech, religious freedom and the right to confront witnesses at trial, the court — led in this respect by Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh — has indicated time and again that the meaning and law of the Constitution is often to be determined as much by enduring political and cultural… [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 4:10 am by SHG
An adult daughter is certainly entitled to her own views, including the desire to see Trump behind bars, but just as Justice Clarence Thomas is not Ginni, Justice Merchan is not his daughter. [read post]
1 Apr 2024, 4:00 am by jonathanturley
Indeed, while this same argument has been embraced by lower court judges, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appear to be outliers on the Supreme Court in raising its possible relevance in this case. [read post]
30 Mar 2024, 2:05 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
But it is often more usefully and accurately understood as what I call "traditionalist": In areas of jurisprudence as various as abortion, gun rights, free speech, religious freedom and the right to confront witnesses at trial, the court — led in this respect by Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh — has indicated time and again that the meaning and law of the Constitution is often to be determined as much by enduring political and cultural… [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk Yahoo News – Steve Eder and Abbie VanSickle (New York Times) | Published: 3/28/2024 One of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s law clerks for the court’s next term will be Crystal Clanton, a conservative organizer turned lawyer, who has such a close relationship with Thomas and his wife that the couple informally refer to her as their “nearly adopted daughter. [read post]
28 Mar 2024, 6:22 pm by Howard Bashman
The post “How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk; Justice Clarence Thomas gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy; Then the justice picked her for one of the most coveted positions in the legal world” appeared first on How Appealing. [read post]