I guess she will be a judge in the same tradition as Louis Brandeis, in the same sense that Vincente Padilla is a "Dodgers Opening Day starter" in the tradition of Sandy Koufax. To elaborate a bit, while they were different men in a number...
Supreme Court
Deciding an appalling case in which a 17-year old was given life without parole for a violating parole, the Supreme Court held today that life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders violate.
I've been having a conversation with the very sharp Silvana Naguib. Particularly since my general position on this is on the record, and I think the analysis applies to anybody.
I think this data, which I discuss here, needs to be much more widely circulated: And I think this data -- because it can't fully account for shifts in the center of gravity in the Court -- actually understates the...
I don't mean to join in making this an all-Kagan-all-the-time blog, but some commenters have raised points that may help to clarify the argument I'm making. The question of whether.
If I understand the theory advanced by anti-SSM wingers in the Washington state petition case, it's the same one put forward by that great constitutional scholar Sarah Palin: i.e. that.
Matt beat me to it, but while I agree with 90% of what she says I think that Dahlia's framing of the debate in this article concedes way too much (as much of her argument itself makes clear.) Republicans do not want an "immobilized...
This Charlie Savage article about the politics of Obama's Supreme Court nominations starts off by reminding us that attempting to preempt conservative claims that a Supreme Court nominee is a.
Over at the Prospect I make the case for nominating an actual liberal for the Supreme Court. In particular, there's no political reason for not doing so: It might be.
Well, if we're ever going to discuss excellent potential nominees Obama isn't actually going to consider, today's the day...
No huge surprise here, but John Paul Stevens will be resigning this summer. [UPDATE: more from Liptak.] I hope Obama will consider that since 1916 this seat on the Court.
I know we've dealt with part of this already, but here's more Goldberg tendentiousness: Lepore mentions that the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in the Buck v. Bell case, led by.