“Supreme Court to hear two cases that could affect 2020 election”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.
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Monday, May 11, 2020
“Supreme Court to hear two cases that could affect 2020 election”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report. Posted at 10:00 PM by Howard Bashman“Washington’s ‘faithless electors’ head to Supreme Court in a case that could throw 2020 election into chaos”: David Gutman has this front page article in today’s edition of The Seattle Times. Posted at 9:55 PM by Howard Bashman“Secrecy of Trump’s taxes, financial records on the line in Supreme Court arguments; House committees and a N.Y. prosecutor want to get their hands on the president’s documents in twin blockbuster cases on Tuesday”: Pete Williams of NBC News has this report. Posted at 9:52 PM by Howard Bashman“How Ginsburg’s and Kagan’s recent opinions send a healthy signal about the Supreme Court”: Columnist Charles Lane has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 9:50 PM by Howard Bashman“A judge’s guide to the Supreme Court livestream”: Senior Third Circuit Judge Marjorie O. Rendell has this essay online at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Posted at 9:27 PM by Howard Bashman“The Supreme Court and Trump’s Tax Returns: The stakes are bigger than the political fate of this President.” The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial. Posted at 8:10 PM by Howard Bashman“Judge asked to step down in Connecticut transgender case; Lawyers argue order on filings shows bias”: Christopher Vondracek of The Washington Times has an article that begins, “Attorneys have filed a motion to disqualify a federal judge from their lawsuit against a Connecticut policy that allows transgender girls to compete in girls’ and women’s athletics, noting that the judge has ordered that transgender athletes not be referred to as ‘male’ in hearings and court filings.” And in commentary, online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “Anti-LGBTQ Firm Tries to Disqualify Judge Because He Won’t Let It Misgender Trans Kids.” Posted at 4:10 PM by Howard Bashman“The Chief Justice Quashes a Political Stunt; Roberts says there’s no basis for a liberal smear against a retiring judge”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. Posted at 4:00 PM by Howard Bashman“Does L.A. Catholic school have a religious-liberty right to fire a teacher who gets cancer?” David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report. And on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court Weighs Whether Parochial Schools Are Exempt From Fair Employment Laws.” Posted at 3:37 PM by Howard Bashman“Harvard’s Affirmative Action Program Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect”: Yuvraj Joshi has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. Posted at 2:22 PM by Howard Bashman“How Supreme Court Doctrine Protects Cops Who Kill (or Otherwise Use Excessive Force); A Reuters report suggests changes in qualified immunity doctrine have immunized police officers sued for misconduct”: Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” I linked to the articles in the Reuters report in this earlier post. Posted at 10:28 AM by Howard Bashman“Mail-In Election Risks Dragging Out a Trump-Biden Count for Days”: Ryan Teague Beckwith of Bloomberg News has this report. Posted at 10:24 AM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court battle over Donald Trump’s finances carries risks for all three branches”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report. In commentary, online at The Atlantic, Quinta Jurecic has an essay titled “The Supreme Court Case That Could Destroy the Balance of Powers: By accepting Trump’s argument for keeping his finances secret, the Court could strip Congress of its ability to hold this, or any, president to account.” And at Justia’s Verdict, law professor Rodger Citron has an essay titled “President Trump Clashes with Legal Oversight in Three Cases to be Argued at the Supreme Court.” Posted at 10:20 AM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court examines discrimination lawsuits against religious schools”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report. Posted at 10:14 AM by Howard Bashman“Justice Thomas’s Faux-Originalist Critique of Overbreadth is Radically Underinclusive (and Wrongheaded in Other Ways Too)”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his “Dorf on Law” blog. Posted at 10:12 AM by Howard Bashman“Viral toilet flush blooper actually shows merits of Supreme Court live audio feed”: Anthony Marcum and Shoshana Weissmann have this essay online at the Washington Examiner. Posted at 10:08 AM by Howard BashmanAccess the live audio of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in McGirt v. Oklahoma and in Our Lady of Guadalupe v. Morrissey-Berru: C-SPAN will broadcast the audio of the first case via this link. And C-SPAN will broadcast the audio of the second case via this link. Posted at 10:00 AM by Howard BashmanSunday, May 10, 2020
“Cornyn says Senate has ‘responsibility’ to fill any 2020 Supreme Court vacancy. He felt differently in 2016.” Benjamin Wermund of The Houston Chronicle has this report. Posted at 11:04 PM by Howard Bashman“Will the US Supreme Court let Trump keep his many secrets?” Ephrat Livni of Quartz has this report. Posted at 11:02 PM by Howard Bashman“U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Moves to Speed Appeal in Equal Pay Case; Players ask judge to enter final ruling on pay-discrimination claims he threw out a week earlier”: Rachel Bachman of The Wall Street Journal has this report. Earlier, at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Paul Cassell had a post titled “A Legally Dubious Summary Judgment Grant Against the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team on Its Equal Pay Case; An appeal by the team stands a very good chance of success, as many disputed facts need to be assesed by a jury — including admissions of unequal pay made by U.S. Soccer.” Posted at 10:55 PM by Howard Bashman“Will the Supreme Court permit Trump to be above the law?” Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 9:32 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump asking justices to bar demands for taxes, bank records”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report. Posted at 9:12 PM by Howard Bashman“After Supreme Court win, Baton Rouge robber could face longer term as habitual offender”: Joe Gyan Jr. of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana has an article that begins, “Just when it appeared the U.S. Supreme Court had handed Jonathan Robertson hope in his quest to reduce his 75-year prison sentence, the convicted Baton Rouge robber now may end up serving even more time behind bars.” Posted at 9:05 PM by Howard Bashman“As 2020 presidential contest looms, U.S. Supreme Court mulls power of ‘electors'”: Andrew Chung of Reuters has this report. Posted at 9:03 PM by Howard Bashman“A listener’s guide to the historic Supreme Court arguments over whether Trump can keep his tax records secret”: Tucker Higgins of CNBC has this report. Posted at 8:56 PM by Howard Bashman“The Coronavirus Made a Mess of Abortion Access. What the Supreme Court Decides Next Month Could Be Worse. Abortion law expert Mary Ziegler offers a legal roadmap for how we got to our current moment — and what to expect from June Medical Services v. Russo.” Becca Andrews of Mother Jones has this report. Posted at 1:55 PM by Howard Bashman“A Colorado Case Before The Supreme Court Could Overhaul The Electoral College Forever”: Allison Sherry of Colorado Public Radio News has this report. Posted at 10:56 AM by Howard Bashman“No president is immune from prosecution. The court has a chance to prove it.” Columnist George F. Will has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post. Posted at 10:44 AM by Howard Bashman“Big Days for Justice: Bill Barr drops things, SCOTUS phones it in, and Little Sisters intervene.” Linda Greenhouse was among Dahlia Lithwick’s guests on this weekend’s new installment of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast. Posted at 10:38 AM by Howard Bashman“Wisconsin mom sues Trump, IRS, over her exclusion from COVID-19 stimulus check program”: Bruce Vielmetti of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article that begins, “A Wisconsin woman who can’t get the $1,200 stimulus check sent to millions of Americans because her husband immigrated to the U.S. says excluding her from the program violates her constitutional rights, including to marry who she wants.” Posted at 10:35 AM by Howard Bashman“Misadventures in Teleworking Are the Least of the Supreme Court’s Problems”: Irin Carmon has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine. Posted at 10:32 AM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court ruling on DACA soon could alter So Cal lives; coronavirus might play role. More than one in four DACA recipients lives in California. Many work in health care.” Roxana Kopetman of The Orange County Register has this report. Posted at 10:28 AM by Howard Bashman“Catholic schools, ex-teachers clash in Supreme Court case”: Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press has this report. Posted at 10:24 AM by Howard Bashman“Trump’s Tax Returns Put Supreme Court Back in Political Storm”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report. Posted at 10:22 AM by Howard Bashman“You can sue to stop lockdowns, but you can’t sue to get them. That’s dangerous. There are strong reasons for the courts to defer to the governors.” Law professor Eric Posner has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 12:03 AM by Howard Bashman |
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