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Nov 26, 2023
Just because this column starts off with...
Let me be blunt: The problem with today's Supreme Court is that it consists of too many 5-watt bulbs sitting in 100-watt sockets. Jim...
Nov 21, 2023
Power of agencies under attack
From SCOTUSblog: Relentless and Loper Bright began as challenges to a federal rule that requires the fishing industry to pay for the cost...
Nov 19, 2023
Fifth Circuit strikes down mandatory bar dues
The wacky U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down mandatory bar association dues for activities not directly related to...
Nov 17, 2023
SCOTUS won't reinstate Florida drag show law right now
From Politico: The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday denied a request by Florida to partially halt a judge’s order blocking the state from...
Nov 14, 2023
SCOTUS declines to hear challenge to 3-year solitary confinement term
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court’s liberal minority dissented on Monday to a decision to leave a lower court ruling in place that said...
Nov 14, 2023
Look! A SCOTUS ethics code! Without any enforcement mechanism!
The eight-page code says the justices “should comply” with a set of lower court regulations that limit what gifts federal judges and...
Nov 10, 2023
For folks who say the justices did nothing wrong...
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee force a delay in subpoenaing Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow, financial benefactors of SCOTUS...
Nov 7, 2023
A quarter of federal courts have always been, and remain, all White
The Democracy Docket is talking about judges. Strikingly, of the 94 district courts across our country, 25 have never had a non-white...
Nov 7, 2023
Arguments today in huge SCOTUS gun case
Should domestic abusers have access to guns? It might just depend on what White men believed in 1782. NBC has a story.
Nov 1, 2023
Senate panel wants to hear from Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow
The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to learn more about their gift-giving to SCOTUS Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. “I will...
Nov 1, 2023
SCOTUS wrestles with online public official / First Amendment issue
It ain't easy, folks! Story at Vox.
Oct 28, 2023
No-name, know-nothing House speaker is a bigger threat than the obviously wacky
From Slate: (Speaker Mike) Johnson is thus the terrifying embodiment of two anodyne faces that give cover to the worst forms of MAGA...
Oct 28, 2023
SCOTUS should stay out of the social media wars
So let me close with a word of advice to the justices: You do not want this fight. Believe me, you do not want to turn yourselves into...
Oct 28, 2023
What's good for the goose is not nearly good enough for Clarence Thomas
As reported by Business Insider India. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ruled this year that Joe Biden was wrong when he tried to...
Oct 22, 2023
SCOTUS to decide whether Biden administration bullied social media companies
It stayed a censorship order levied by the wacky Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, but... Three conservative justices — Samuel Alito,...
Oct 22, 2023
SCOTUS gets one right
From Reuters: WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to revive a Missouri law that bars state and local...
Oct 16, 2023
Tax case raises the question: does SCOTUS care at all about the facts?
From Fortune: Charles and Kathleen Moore are about to have their day in the Supreme Court over a $15,000 tax bill they contend is...
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