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Friday, December 1, 2017

“Senator Flake isn’t a Liberal, and Neither is Chief Justice Roberts”: Richard Primus has this post at the “Balkinization” blog.

Posted at 10:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Note on Carter’s ‘Court-Packing'”: Asher Steinberg has this post at his blog, “The Narrowest Grounds.”

Posted at 2:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“In Carpenter Case, Justice Sotomayor Tries to Picture the Smartphone Future”: Amy Davidson Sorkin has this post online at The New Yorker.

Posted at 1:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“How the Lawyer David Boies Turned a Young Novelist’s Sexual Past Against Her”: Sheelah Kolhatkar has this post online at The New Yorker.

Posted at 1:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court: Interveners speak for and against Trinity Western University law school; Humanists, atheists, lawyers, Evangelicals, Sikhs, Seventh Day Adventists, Catholic bishops, secularists, teachers, charities . . . .” Ian Mulgrew of The Vancouver Sun has this report.

Because the case was argued in the Supreme Court of Canada, you can view the oral argument video online. Yesterday’s oral argument video can be accessed here. When the archive of today’s oral argument video becomes available online, I will link to it.

Posted at 1:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“Neil Gorsuch’s Independent Streak: At arguments in Carpenter v. United States, the conservative justice used originalist principles to defend 21st-century digital privacy.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

And online at The Atlantic, Jeffrey Rosen has an essay titled “A Liberal-Conservative Alliance on the Supreme Court Against Digital Surveillance: Justices found common ground in asserting the relevance of the Fourth Amendment in the electronic age, even as they cited sharply different rationales.”

Posted at 11:27 AM by Howard Bashman