It seems the Roberts Court also made a film expressing its views on American race relations and the proper order between the races. You can watch it below.
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I have an article up at the Prospect about the worst Supreme Court decision you probably didn’t hear about this term. Well, actually, I should clarify that according to what we’ll char
Jeff Rosen makes some good points in his piece about the divisions within the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc. But I think he misses an important one: the way in which the George W. Bush-appoi
Shorter Supreme Court Republicans: Allowing more people access to the political process without preventing other people from spending their money if they choose violates the First Amendment. Plutocrats and their agents should have the field to themselves! This case is much, much worse than Citizens United, which at least had a reasonable basis in the […]
More on Connick v. Thompson. I would excerpt, except that it might provide a disincentive to Read the Whole Thing. I’m glad that Lithwick highlights the remarkable Scalia concurrence, which of c
I have an article up at the Prospect about the most recent Roberts Court excrescence, which adds some further context. I remain deeply unpersuaded by the majority’s reasoning that 5 prosecut
Let’s say you’re a DA, and your office has an extensive record of disregarding constitutional requirements that relevant evidence be disclosed to defendants and their counsel. This leads to things like a man sitting on death row for 14 years because you don’t turn over evidence that would have proven his innocence. You might be, […]
Shorter Arlen Specter: “I sat on the Judiciary Committee table throughout the second Bush administration, and I still haven’t spotted the sucker.”
Liptak has an interesting piece on opinion-writing on the Roberts Court, and in particular the debate within the Court about whether they should be using the relatively tiny number of appeals they acc