Supreme Court
I have a piece on the latest "sovereign immunity" atrocity up. One additional note: in a footnote, Ginsburg reiterated (correctly) that Congress should be able to abrogate "sovereign immunity" in.
As I wrote about at some length during the dark ages of the blog, I think the evidence that William Rehnquist's infamous memo urging Robert Jackson to uphold Plessy represented.
I'm still waiting for my copy of Dale Carpenter's book, but Dahlia Lithwick's review is a beautifully written and important piece in its own right. Lithwick's piece focuses on a.
I would like to buck the conventional wisdom, but I agree with everybody that the grant of cert in Fisher v. UT Austin is almost certainly the end of affirmative.
Irin Carmon's column on Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the potentially pioneering brief Nixon's Solicitor General Erwin "why should a mere woman get a law school space that properly belongs to.
With respect to how Kennedy is likely to rule on the Prop 8 case, a few additional points. First, in response to Murc here, I should make it clear what.
The Supreme Court has unanimously held that GPS tracking of an individual by the state constitutes a "search" in terms of the Fourth Amendment. However, the Court declined to answer.
Shorter Scalia and Thomas: By stopping Cory Maples's execution, the majority has violated Alabama's rights. Look, sure, he didn't really have a "lawyer" in the sense of someone responsible for.