Showing 1–50 of 100 items published in July 2020, most recent first.
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected another attempt to ease election-related rules during the coronavirus crisis – this time by imposing a stay on a lower-court order that would have made it easier for an Idaho advocacy group to gather signatures for a proposed ballot measure.
“[A] man of high ambitions … must face the loneliness of original work.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Brown University Commencement Address (1897) The following is a series of questions posed by Ronald Collins to Catharine Pierce Wells in connection with her new book, “Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Willing Servant to an Unknown God” (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
The Supreme Court on Friday turned down a plea from opponents of President Donald Trump’s border wall to order a temporary stop to construction. By a vote of 5-4, the justices declined to lift a stay, entered just over a year ago, that allowed the federal government to continue to spend federal funds on construction while a legal challenge to the wall continues.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent a “minimally invasive non-surgical procedure” on Wednesday at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York to “revise a bile duct stent that was originally placed at Sloan Kettering in August 2019,” the Supreme Court’s Public Information Office announced.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent a minimally invasive medical procedure, and the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow it to continue using federal funds to build its border wall.
On Tuesday, Aug. 4, at 1 p.m. EDT, the ABA Criminal Justice Section will host a virtual discussion of major criminal cases decided during the 2019-20 Supreme Court term – on issues from presidential subpoenas and jury unanimity to the insanity defense and cross-border shootings – as well as cases granted for next term.
This week we highlight cert petitions pending before the Supreme Court that ask the court to assess the constitutionality of a Mississippi abortion law, a Texas liquor law and a federal law governing the appointment of patent judges.
The Supreme Court on Thursday put on hold rulings by a federal court in Idaho that had relaxed the state’s rules for ballot initiatives for the November 2020 election.
Briefly: CNN’s Joan Biskupic continues her series on the Supreme Court’s internal workings during its 2019-20 term.
On Tuesday, Aug. 4, from 12-1:30 p.m. EDT, ADL will host a virtual discussion of the most important cases of the 2019-20 Supreme Court term, on issues including the separation of church and state, immigration and Title VII employment discrimination.
One week after opponents of President Donald Trump’s border wall asked the justices to order a temporary halt to construction, the Trump administration on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the government should be allowed to continue to spend federal funds on construction while a legal challenge continues.
CNN’s Joan Biskupic has the scoop of the day (and perhaps the term) with Part 1 and Part 2 of a series that provides “exclusive new details about how the court handled its pivotal term that dealt with LGBTQ rights, abortion and investigating President Donald Trump.” The first two parts, based
Abbe R. Gluck is a professor of law and faculty director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. What is the Supreme Court to do with the rest of a statute when it finds one provision unconstitutional?
The Supreme Court’s Friday night decision to deny emergency relief to a Nevada church that challenged the state’s coronavirus restrictions generated strong reactions over the weekend.
Casetext and SCOTUSblog hosted a webinar on July 23 to debrief the blockbuster 2019-20 Supreme Court term. SCOTUSblog Publisher and Co-Founder Tom Goldstein and Goldstein & Russell Partner Sarah Harrington led the discussion, moderated by Casetext Chief Operating Officer Laura Safdie.
A divided Supreme Court on Friday night turned down a request by a Nevada church for permission to hold services on the same terms that other facilities in the state, including casinos, are allowed to hold gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Briefly: In a Washington Post opinion piece, Leah Litman argues that President Donald Trump’s Tuesday executive order – which seeks to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 census count used to determine congressional representation – confirms that the administration’s arguments before the Supreme Court in last year’s census case, Department of Commerce v. New York, were pretextual.
Over the past five Supreme Court terms, the justices have issued 157 separate “opinions relating to orders.” These orders, which are issued without oral arguments and without full merits consideration, typically fall into three categories: denials of cert petitions, rulings on emergency requests for relief in pending cases, and summary reversals of lower court decisions.
The summer recess has already seen lots of action on the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket,” and that continued Wednesday with an emergency request from environmental groups asking the court to halt the construction of President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall.
This week we highlight cert petitions pending before the Supreme Court that ask the court to weigh in on a variety of hot-button constitutional and political issues.
Josh Blackman is a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston and the co-author of “An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know.” When the Supreme Court issues a signed opinion, each of the nine justices will indicate their position: affirm, reverse or recuse.
Briefly: In Slate, Dahlia Lithwick and Molly Olmstead launch a project titled “The Class of RBG,” which tells “[t]he remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ’59 – as told by them, their families, and a Supreme Court justice who remembers them all.” The project includes a two-episode podcast series, a collection of short essays and an interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself.
It has been just under a year since a divided Supreme Court allowed the government to spend federal funds on the construction of President Donald Trump’s border wall while a legal challenge proceeded.
Ronald Collins is the books editor for SCOTUSblog. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the First Amendment Salons and was formerly the Harold S. Shefelman scholar at the University of Washington School of Law. David Hudson, Jr. is an assistant professor of law at Belmont University.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by House Democrats to speed up the process for the lower courts to start re-evaluating the congressional efforts to obtain President Donald Trump’s financial records.
The Supreme Court begins its second week of summer recess as court watchers continue to absorb the news on Friday that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a recurrence of cancer.
The Supreme Court’s 2019-20 term was one for the records books. The court offered live audio of oral arguments in May for the first time in history, and it released opinions well into July for the first time in more than two decades.
On Sunday, Aug. 9, at 7:30 p.m. EDT, the Martha’s Vineyard Author Series is hosting a virtual discussion with three authors whose recent books cover major developments at the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court on Monday morning turned down requests from the House of Representatives to expedite the date on which the court’s ruling on access to the president’s financial records will officially go into effect.
On Wednesday, July 22, at 12:30 p.m. EDT, the American Constitution Society will host a webinar to debrief this term’s biggest Supreme Court decisions and discuss emerging trends.
The first week of the court’s summer recess has been a busy one, and the flurry of major time-sensitive rulings continued on Thursday. Shortly before 3 a.m., the justices issued a series of orders allowing the federal government to carry out its second execution this week.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced Friday that she began treatment earlier this year for liver cancer. The 87-year-old justice, who has battled cancer on four previous occasions, indicated that chemotherapy is “yielding positive results,” and she emphasized that she remains “fully able” to do her job.
Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday granted a request from a New York district attorney to accelerate the date on which the Supreme Court’s ruling on access to the president’s financial records will officially go into effect.
On Thursday, July 23, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, the University of California, Irvine’s School of Law will host a discussion of the biggest cases from the 2019-20 Supreme Court term.
For the second time this week, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision in the middle of the night allowing the federal government to proceed with the execution of a person on death row.
Two days after a flurry of late-night filings culminated in an early-morning order by the Supreme Court that allowed the federal government to proceed with the first federal execution in 17 years, the justices cleared the way early Thursday morning for a second execution.
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request by Florida voters and civil rights groups to reinstate a ruling that would have cleared the way for thousands of Florida residents who have been convicted of a felony to vote in the state’s upcoming elections.
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that ask the court to decide, among other things, whether a petitioner who has no available remedy in habeas, through no lack of diligence on his part, is barred by Heck v. Humphrey from pursuing a Section 1983 claim challenging the
Two big stories generated substantial news coverage of the Supreme Court on Tuesday: the hospitalization of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the court’s 5-4 ruling allowing the federal government to begin reinstating the death penalty after a 17-year de facto moratorium on federal executions.
Join SCOTUSblog and Casetext at noon ET on Thursday, July 23, for a debrief of the Supreme Court’s 2019-20 term. Tom Goldstein, publisher and co-founder of SCOTUSblog, and Sarah Harrington, partner at Goldstein & Russell, will discuss some of the term’s biggest cases in a one-hour webinar moderated by Casetext’s Laura Safdie.
The ink is still drying on the Supreme Court’s opinions for the 2019-20 term, but court watchers are already looking ahead to the cases that will open next term.
In the early hours this morning, after a flurry of last-minute filings, a divided Supreme Court cleared the way for federal executions to resume for the first time in nearly 20 years.
Update, July 15: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been discharged from the hospital a day after being admitted for a possible infection, a Supreme Court spokesperson said Wednesday afternoon. “She is home and doing well,” the spokesperson said.
With the Supreme Court now in summer recess, court watchers and commentators continue to analyze the major decisions the court handed down last week — as well as review the extraordinary 2019-20 term as a whole.