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Tuesday round-up 27 Aug 2013 | 04:51 pm
Justice Ginsburg’s remarks in her most recent interviews (which I covered in yesterday’s round-up) have prompted a new round of coverage and commentary. At Slate, Dahlia Lithwick compares those remar...
Event announcement 27 Aug 2013 | 01:55 am
On September 9, the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Peabody Awards, and the University of Georgia School of Law will co-host three panels focusing on the Roberts Court and the ...
Court dismisses shareholder derivative suit 27 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
The Court has dismissed one of the cases on its merits docket for the upcoming Term. Shortly before its summer recess, the Court granted certiorari in UBS Financial Services Inc. v. Unión de Empleado...
SCOTUSblog on camera: Burt Neuborne part six 26 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm
Reflecting on a long career of arguing before the Supreme Court: John Marshall Harlan II, at the end of his career; Thurgood Marshall, William O. Douglas and the constitutionality of the Vietnam War; ...
Monday round-up 26 Aug 2013 | 04:42 pm
Both Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News and Adam Liptak of The New York Times interviewed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who – among other things — the Justice rebuffed calls for her to resign to allow Presid...
Major tests on religion shaping up 24 Aug 2013 | 09:03 am
Analysis With the Supreme Court already committed to rule on a major new test of the constitutional roles of religion and government, the prospect of additional cases reaching the Court now suggests ...
New challenge to Texas voting laws 24 Aug 2013 | 12:13 am
New pressure in court to compel the state of Texas to get advance approval before it can enforce any voting laws, including its two-year-old voter ID law, will now be applied in an existing lawsuit in...
SCOTUSblog on camera: Burt Neuborne part five 23 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
The role of the Chief Justice and political labels in understanding the Court as an institution in which the Justices wrestle with many complex considerations through individual cases. In this six-pa...
SCOTUSblog on camera: Burt Neuborne part five 23 Aug 2013 | 08:34 pm
The role of the Chief Justice and political labels in understanding the Court as an institution in which the Justices wrestle with many complex considerations through individual cases. In this six-pa...
Friday round-up 23 Aug 2013 | 05:37 pm
As Lyle reported yesterday for this blog, the federal government has asked a federal district court in Texas to hold that the state must obtain approval before it makes any changes to its voting laws ...