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Apr 3, 2024
The state's harassment injunction law an issue in abortion protester case
Updated 4/11/24 to correct End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin acronym. Applying a U.S. Supreme Court criminal case ruling to state harassment...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: Are conservative justices getting impatient with the Fifth District?
Are conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices getting impatient with some of the shenanigans of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals? From...
Mar 11, 2024
News take: The right to privacy
It is tattered but still a target. More at Vox. At least one judge, moreover, has already weaponized the right to privacy to undermine...
Jan 31, 2024
News take: PA Supreme Court bench slaps SCOTUS on Dobbs
Poor Samuel Alito must be furious. From Dahlia Lithwick at Slate: On Monday, the court issued a landmark opinion declaring that abortion...
Jan 31, 2024
News take: Diversity important to U.S. defense, White House tells SCOTUS
Yes, but will the "We know better than you" supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court actually listen? From the Courthouse News story: “A...
Jan 24, 2024
News take: Are there right-wing revolutionaries on SCOTUS
The U.S. Supreme Court found that the U.S. Border Patrol could remove the razor wire that Texas installed along its border with Mexico....
Jan 18, 2024
The conservative legal movement is about to score another victory
Because we want dirtier air, dirtier water, and more plastics in our bloodstreams. Of course we do! NBC has more, followed by the...
Jan 15, 2024
News take: Are anti-homeless laws cruel and unusual? SCOTUS will decide
Use your imagination to figure out how homeless people are supposed to deal with laws like the Grants Pass, Oregon, ordinance at issue...
Jan 15, 2024
News take: Biden administration fights Texas efforts to block Border Patrol from patrolling
From the story: Along one stretch,armed Texas National Guard members and their vehicles are preventing Border Patrol agents from...
Jan 2, 2024
SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts issues another chicken sh*t annual report
Artificial intelligence could be good, the chief opines. It also could be really, really bad. Ground-breaking stuff. And he dances nicely...
Dec 20, 2023
A Trump/Colorado round-up
Reuters: WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump is disqualified from serving as U.S. president and cannot appear on...
Dec 13, 2023
SCOTUS walking into a political mess with Trump immunity appeal
From CNN: From beginning to end, the Supreme Court’s handling of the case is bound to be closely scrutinized. Public opinion polls show...
Dec 13, 2023
Surprise! SCOTUS allows Georgia's law-breaking election maps to stand for now
The Election Law Blog has a short update here.
Dec 6, 2023
SCOTUS rejects disability case as moot; Clarence Thomas feigns shock at docket manipulation
As if he's never welcomed it... From Law & Crime: Thomas warned that SCOTUS‘ refusal to decide the question before the justices...
Dec 6, 2023
SCOTUS hears argument over money
From Reuters: WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared hesitant to upend a tax on Americans who have...
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 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 15, 2023
SCOTUS justices push election injustices
As the Wisconsin Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in the Rebecca Clarke redistricting case next week, a little sad news about the...
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...
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