Playing along is not a victory, any more so than it was in June 2012....
The Supreme Court has another affirmative action case on its docket for next term, as explained by Jennifer Gratz (the plaintiff in Gratz v. Bollinger / U. Michigan), The two-faced defense of affirmative action (emphasis added): Though last week’s Supreme Court ruling in Fisher v. University of...
A follow up to the Supreme Court's decision in Fisher v. U. Texas. John Yoo writes at National Review (emphasis mine): Some conservatives are probably taking heart that the Court, by seven to one, reversed the lower court, which had upheld UT’s explicit use of racial preferences in...
Not that there's anything wrong with it (?)....
Update -- The death of the ballot initiative movement as Court gives de facto veto power to government officials who want to lose a case....
NOTE: Tomorrow is the last opinion day -- so we will get gay marriage and DOMA decisions. Be here at 10 a.m. Section 4 of Voting Rights Act held invalid. Full Opinion embedded at bottom of this post. Via ScotusBlog live blog: 10:10 Amy Howe: Shelby County. The...
[Note -- More decisions will be released Tuesday -- check back here at 10 a.m.] Full opinion embedded at bottom of post Via ScotusBlog live blog: 10:14 Amy Howe: The opoinion by Kennedy. The Fifth Circuit is vacated and remanded. 10:15 Amy Howe: The holding is because the Fifth...
7-2 decision practically invites Arizona to try again using proper administrative procedures...
Today is oral argument in Windsor v. United States, challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. We have not followed the DOMA litigation very carefully to date. We did cover the secondary boycott effort directed at the King & Spalding law firm. There was a truly abysmal threat to...
The oral argument just concluded. The audio will be posted later. Update -- Audio is here. Transcript is here. Expect an avalanche of spin from various pundits -- as if the spin matters. I'll link to numerous sources which I deem on the low-end of spin meter. ...
Today at 10 a.m. is the argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, also known as the California Proposition 8 case. Tomorrow is argument in the Defense of Marriage Act case. It's hard to believe that this day has arrived. We have been covering Prop 8 almost since...
That's the statement Elena Kagan made back in 2009 when she was going through confirmation proceedings to become Solicitor General (emphasis added): 1. As Solicitor General, you would be charged with defending the Defense of Marriage Act. That law, as you may know, was enacted by...
A couple of days ago I charitably described Andrew Cohen's embarrassingly gushing celebration of Justice Sonia Sotomayor and her new book in The Atlantic as "treacly drool." It is not alone, accompanied now by a full court liberal press (NPR, CBS News, the New York...
Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment....
Politico creates the narrative it wants from unhelpful numbers...
The big shock in the Supreme Court's Obamacare ruling was not that the law was upheld. Most people thought there was a substantial chance Justice Kennedy would side with the four liberal Justices. But almost no one thought that it would be Chief Justice John Roberts...
Just breaking, via The Hill: The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) — the federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The court also agreed to hear a...
The Supreme Court has issued a summary Order (h/t @JamieDupree) vacating the 4th Circuits decision in the Obamacare case brought by Liberty University. Via ScotusBlog: The Supreme Court on Monday arranged for a Virginia university to go forward with new challenges to two key sections of the...
