Supreme Court
Responding to Jack Balkin on the Court's "minimalist turn," Johnathan Adler argues:It's an interesting post, but I reject Balkin's premise. There's nothing "sudden" about the Roberts Court's minimalism. Rather, a.
Adam Liptak has done an excellent job as the Times' Supreme Court reporter, and while address some other aspects of his term-end roundup in a subsequent post I was especially.
Attempts to use Ricci to derail Sotomayor's nomination won't work, but (as Paul also said earlier today) they do show how silly the whole "empathy" criticism is.
I will be in a car returning from a graduation party most of the day. So if, as expected, the Court hands down its decision in Ricci today and reverses.
I'm very, very happy to be wrong about this one. In a very pleasant surprise, today 8 justices found that the appalling arbitrary strip search of Savana Redding violated the.
While the Court's decision not to strike down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act -- at least, not yet -- was probably the best outcome that could have been.
In light of two controversial 5-4 Supreme Court decisions this week, Matt is reminded of Jeffrey Toobin's point that "In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief.
I mentioned in my initial post about Caperton that it was a classic example of Scalia's showy rhetoric concealing substantive points of highly dubious quality. To unpack this a bit,.