Jack Balkin makes an excellent point here. Defenses of the Supreme Court upholding the Indiana voter ID law claim that the requirement will somehow be part of a political bargain to improve access to voting, which run into the obvious problem that there's no evidence...
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Talk about ripped from the headlines. No, no one would *ever* address our Supreme Court this way, nor would the Court let her or him. But, hey, a law student.
In light of Scalia once again dismissing those who consider Bush v. Gore less than a noble application of constitutional principle, this passage from his concurrence in Crawford can only.
Dismayingly but not surprisingly, the Supreme Court upheld Indiana's Imaginary Vote Fraud and Democratic Vote Suppression Act today. Vote was 6-3, Stevens joining the majority and writing for the plurality, leaving open the possibility of an as-applied challenge. More later this afternoon.
Antonin Scalia continues to tell people to "get over" the disgraceful decision in Bush v. Gore. As he must know, that won't happen. Since he continues to do things like.
Given what bean correctly identifies as the complexity of today's ruling in Baze v. Rees, I'll have to leave discussion of the fractured holding until tomorrow. For now, let me.
The Supreme Court just rejected 7-2 a constitutional challenge to the 3-injection lethal injection protocol. Details to come. The case is Baze v. Rees. Good to know that Supreme Court believes that dogs deserve better treatment than the human condemned.Update: SCOTUSBlog has more. The Court...
The recently retired Justice O'Connor recently spoke at Hunter College with Justice Breyer, and was asked by a student if there was a vote she regretted casting. After rejecting the.
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.
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 in part, but to argue that the rule announced by the Court was insufficiently protective...
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.