I have to say, I have mixed emotions about the New York Times's decision to replace Linda Greenhouse with Adam Liptak. I'm afraid it is going to defang him and render him unable to really dig into political topics with a definite viewpoint. Like, say,...
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court's decision today in New Jersey v. Delaware was decided in favor of the latter. The two dissenters? Trenton's Antonin Scalia and Trenton's Sam Alito. (Well, Stevens dissented.
The first question about the D.C. gun case is, how will they rule? Reporters who observed the oral argument today seem nearly certain that 1)a majority of the Court will.
Jeffrey Rosen's article about the pro-business court -- the Chamber of Commerce's "litigation center filed briefs in 15 cases and its side won in 13 of them" -- is very much worth reading. It's worth being reminded, again, that although court watchers tend to divide...
Jeffrey Rosen brings up an interesting point about the judicial options for the next Democratic president. The recent Republican dominance of the White House leaves the Democrats with a very.
I cringe whenever I see that the Roberts Court is taking a case like this:In theory, a criminal-law doctrine known as the exclusionary rule forbids prosecutors from using evidence obtained.
I have more thoughts here.
In the wake of yesterday's oral argument in the Indiana voting rights case, Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, in which the Bush v. Gore majority played ping pong with.
It's been buried by NH primary news, but it's worth noting that the Supreme Court heard Baze v. Rees yesterday. The case challenges Kentucky's use of a three-drug cocktail to.
Scott covered the important points in his post about the Supreme Court's decision today in Gall and Kimbrough. Boiled down, the Court in these cases says that it meant what it said in Booker: the Sentencing Guidelines are just that -- suggestions -- and federal...
I'm guessing Bean will have more to say about this, but the Supreme Court today held in a 7-2 decision that lower court judges are permitted not to apply federal.
Unfortunately, other professional responsibilities have prevented me from reading the full transcripts yet, so I've only heard the highlights so far (I'll have more when I read them in full.).