“Before Scalia’s Death, a Clash Between G.O.P. and Obama Over Appellate Judges”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has an article that begins, “The vow by Senate Republicans to block whomever President Obama nominates to fill the sudden vacancy on the Supreme Court presages a prolonged election year struggle, but the clash is less a new front against the White House than an escalation of a battle that had begun at the appeals court level before Justice Antonin Scalia died.”
“How to Bring the Supreme Court Back Down to Earth”: Emily Bazelon of The New York Times Magazine has a post that begins, “The eight justices on the Supreme Court today all come from the federal appeals courts. (So did Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday.) Only Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who was a judge in California, served outside the East Coast cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington. All eight attended law school at Harvard or Yale. None ever held elected office.”
Update: The first line of Bazelon’s post has been corrected to reflect that Justice Elena Kagan did not serve as a U.S. Circuit Judge. Of course, Bazelon had that aspect of Justice Kagan’s background specifically in mind at an earlier time.
“13 Women Who Should Be Considered to Replace Justice Scalia; In the history of the Supreme Court, only four women have served”: Jill Filipovic has this post at Cosmopolitan.
“More Republicans Say They’ll Block Supreme Court Nominee”: Michael D. Shear and Jennifer Steinhauer of The New York Times have this report.
Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin of The Washington Post report that “Battle over Scalia’s replacement already spilling into Senate races.”
And Kathleen Hennessey and Mark Sherman of The Associated Press report that “Obama faces political puzzle in naming Scalia successor.”
“Recalling Scalia, a Literary Stylist Who Scorned ‘Jiggery-Pokery'”: Jennifer Schuessler will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.
“Conspiracy theories swirl around the death of Antonin Scalia”: Lena H. Sun and Sari Horwitz of The Washington Post have this report.
And Sam Hananel and David Warren of The Associated Press report that “Texas judge disclosed details about Scalia’s health.”
“GOP holdup on court will hurt USA; We cannot allow partisan politics to stop Senate from fulfilling its constitutional duty”: U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has this essay online in USA Today.
“The Supreme Court after Scalia”: Law professor William Baude has this essay online at The Chicago Tribune.
“How Scalia reshaped environmental law”: Jeremy P. Jacobs of Greenwire has this report.
And Robin Bravender of Greenwire has an article headlined “Forecast for enviro cases: murky with a chance of deadlocks.”
“The stalemate over the Supreme Court could get even worse than you think”: Paul Waldman has this entry today at “The Plum Line” blog of The Washington Post.
“Fight to Name Justice Scalia’s Successor to Echo Past Battles; Nomination process has become more contentious over the years”: Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal have this report.
In other coverage from that newspaper, Carol E. Lee and Jess Bravin have an article headlined “Obama’s Strategy for Nominating New Justice Will Set Tone for Debate; White House has several options, but each carries risks.”
And Brent Kendall reports that “Justice Scalia’s Death Presents Election-Year Rarity; Senate has usually confirmed justices in rare cases when vacancy occurs in the final year of an administration.”
“Supreme Court: What happens in case of a tie?” Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report, along with an article headlined “Here’s how Scalia’s death affects Supreme Court rulings this year.”
“What Would Scalia Want in His Successor? A Dissent Offers Clues.” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.
“Antonin Scalia’s Other Legacy: He was often a friend of criminal defendants.” Robert Smith has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“How Scalia shaped conservative legal theory”: This video segment featuring Bryan Garner, Irin Carmon, and Lawrence Lessig appeared yesterday on MSNBC.
“The Tragedy of Antonin Scalia: He thought he could remove politics from the Supreme Court, but he only made things worse.” Law professor Eric Posner has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“How Antonin Scalia Shaped — and Misshaped — American Law: The late Supreme Court justice’s mixed legacy on liberty and the Constitution.” Damon Root has this essay at Reason.com.
“Srinivasan, Lynch fit Obama’s formula for nominees; In pushing candidates through a reluctant Senate, he has emphasized demographic firsts and cooperation with GOP”: Edward-Isaac Dovere of Politico.com has this report.
Beef’s got a beef with The LA Times: In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, Molly Hennessy-Fiske has an article headlined “Scalia’s last moments on a Texas ranch — quail hunting to being found in ‘perfect repose.’”
According to the article
[Poindexter] sat next to Scalia at a dinner of ‘typical ranch fare.’ He didn’t recall what the justice ate, except that it wasn’t steak.
As any fan of Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life” would know, of course it wasn’t the steak.
From the department of unfortunate timing: On February 13, 2016, USA Today posted online correspondent Richard Wolf’s article — written before late in the afternoon on that date — titled “Court icons Scalia and Ginsburg: Together at the peak.”
“10 Tiebreakers The Supreme Court Should Use To Settle 4-4 Splits: Drinking games, outsourcing, and hand-to-hand combat.” Aaron Nemo has this entry online at The Huffington Post.
“Immigration at the high court: The coming decision.” In yesterday’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, law professor Josh Blackman had this op-ed — written before Justice Antonin Scalia passed away.
Tomorrow evening, Blackman will be participating in a debate program titled “Has the President Gone Too Far on Immigration?” at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
“Could an Iowan soon sit on the nation’s highest court?” Ryan Koopmans has this post today at “On Brief: Iowa’s Appellate Blog.”
“The Scalia I Knew Will Be Greatly Missed”: Law professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay online at Bloomberg View.
“Scalia’s greatest strength, his steadfastness, was also his greatest weakness; He changed the Court more than the Court changed him”: Law professor Jonathan Turley has this essay online at The Washington Post.
An online at USA Today, Turley has an essay titled “Obama should act with restraint on court; A recess appointment to fill the Scalia vacancy would cement the president’s troubling legacy of going it alone.”
“In search for Scalia’s successor, Obama may see GOP opposition as incentive to select a liberal”: David G. Savage and David Lauter have this front page article in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.
“Journalist Joan Biskupic to talk about 25 years of covering the Supreme Court”: YaleNews has this report about an event scheduled to occur tomorrow in New Haven, Connecticut. Here’s hoping that video of the event will be available online at some point.
“This is a job for Chief Justice Roberts, judicial statesman”: Steve Klepper has this post today at the “Maryland Appellate Blog.”
“Scalia will be impossible to replace”: Ilya Shapiro has this essay today at CNN.com.
“Supreme Court’s secrecy: no cameras in the courtroom.” CNN has posted this video clip online featuring Steven Brill, Floyd Abrams, and Jeffrey Toobin.
“Campaign Spending, Death Penalty in Play With High Court Opening”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.
And Mike Dorning of Bloomberg News reports that “Obama Faces War Over Court Pick, Whether Pragmatic or Partisan.”
“Scalia’s Absence Is Likely to Alter Court’s Major Decisions This Term”: Adam Liptak has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.
“Postscript: Antonin Scalia, 1936-2016.” Margaret Talbot has this post online at The New Yorker. Her profile of Justice Scalia, headlined “Supreme Confidence: The jurisprudence of Justice Antonin Scalia,” appeared in the March 28, 2005 issue of that magazine.
Also online at The New Yorker, Evan Osnos has a post titled “The Death of Antonin Scalia.”
And John Cassidy has a post titled “Will the G.O.P. Response to Antonin Scalia’s Death Hand the Election to the Democrats?”
I previously linked to Jeffrey Toobin’s post titled “How Scalia Changed the Supreme Court.”
“A Special Joint Political Gabfest and Amicus on Antonin Scalia’s Death”: Last night, Slate posted online this new Amicus podcast featuring Emily Bazelon, Dahlia Lithwick, and David Plotz.
“Antonin Scalia: A Consequential but Not a Great Justice.” Kenneth Jost had this post yesterday at his blog, “Jost on Justice,” along with a post titled “‘Lame Duck’ Nominees Often Confirmed to High Court.”
