Every post published in August 2005, most recent first.
Sorry that we haven’t had anything up on the blog lately. We have three merits briefs due at the Court within a week (two tomorrow). Next week, I’ll be doing the color commentary (for lack of a better term) for the NPR coverage of the hearings and will be live blogging them on the Nomination Blog.
PrawfsBlawg has this response to Dahlia Lithwick’s recent article on the “living” Constitution and this post on a speech Justice Stevens recently gave, profiled by the New York Times here. The Right Coast also comments on Justice Stevens’ speech here.
The Volokh Conspiracy has this post discussing this Wall Street Journal article on Justice Stephen Breyer’s new 161-page book to be released in a few weeks: “Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution.” The Legal Affairs Debate Club asks, “Is Assisted Suicide Legal?” This October, in
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In honor of Justice Stevens’s thirtieth year on the Court, Fordham University School of Law has organized a two-day conference, The Jurisprudence of Justice Stevens.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused — as it was expected to do — to reconsider its controversial ruling expanding the power of local governments to seize private property for economic development.
(This is one of a series of posts on the impact that Supreme Court decisions have on later lower court rulings.) If a display of the Ten Commandments is put up on city property, it stands there alone, and the government had no historical or other non-religious reason for putting it there, is it unconstitutional as an official embrace of religion?
Foreign nationals being held as terrorism suspects at the U.S. Navy’s prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have urged the D.C. Circuit to keep their case alive, arguing that a recent Circuit Court ruling does not undercut their demand that the Bush Administration justify in court their continued detention.
The Volokh Conspiracy has this post on using Chief Justice Rehnquist’s periodic absences from the bench this year as an opportunity to test the influence of the Chief Justice by comparing results in cases over which Rehnquist presided versus those over which Stevens presided as acting Chief to see whether there is any systematic differences in the outcomes depending on the presiding Chief.
Last week, Justice Stevens gave this address to the American Bar Association at the Thurgood Marshall Awards Dinner honoring Abner Mikva.