Thursday’s posts from the Courthouse
The early report on the decisions can be found here. The Term-closing remarks of the Chief Justice can be found here. A discussion of what Hamdan did not decide is here.
June 2006 Archive
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More on Hamdan
David Glazier, Associate Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, has these thoughts on Hamdan: The Court’s Hamdan decision marked a significant departure from the facile adherence to precedent advocated by military commission proponents.
Texas redistricting remedies schedule
One day after the Supreme Court decided the Texas congressional redistricting cases (League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, 05-204, is the lead case), a federal judge in Marshall, Texas, on Thursday set the schedule for remedying the parts of the new election boundaries that did not survive the Justices’ review.
Final orders: no grants
The Supreme Court issued its final orders for the 2005-2006 Term on Friday, showing no new cases granted for the fall Term. The Court has granted cases for argument next Term that will require 29 hours. That is eight fewer hours than the outlook at this time a year ago.
More on Alito’s Impact
Yesterday, in Slate’s Supreme Court “Breakfast Table” with Dahlia Lithwick, Walter Dellinger discussed Tom’s earlier SCOTUSblog post presenting a first impression of the voting statistics for the term.
More Thoughts on the Texas Redistricting Cases.
Dan Ortiz of the University of Virginia Law School has these thoughts on the decision: Wednesday’s opinions in LULAC confounded, I think, nearly all expectation. While many thought that the Court might develop the law governing partisan gerrymandering in one direction or another, it did not.
A move to save the San Diego cross
The city of San Diego and a war memorial group, seeking to keep a Christian cross on a hill — Mount Soledad — overlooking the city, have asked Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy to block a federal judge’s order to remove the cross from the site.
Blog Round-Up
Akin Gump summer associate Malachi Alston has this round-up of recent postings in the blogosphere: A typo (Election Law, Reid Cox) was noticed in Justice Kennedy’s concurrence in Randall v. Sorrell.
Hamdan News Round-Up
Yesterday’s decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld has been a hot topic around the web and in print: Linda Greenhouse has a general summary of the decision in the New York Times here, and the Guardian’s Susan Goldenberg has a wrap-up here.
Yesterday’s Decision in Clark v. Arizona
Akin Gump summer associate Jered Matthysse has this summary of yesterday’s decision in Clark v. Arizona: On Thursday, the Supreme Court held by a vote of six to three that due process does not require a State to use both prongs of the M’Naughten insanity test.