Every post published in July 2010, most recent first.
The D.C. Circuit Court’s deeply-set refusal to let federal judges oversee government decisions on which detainees may or may not leave Guantanamo Bay has now reached the longest-running effort to keep a detainee from being sent to another country over his protest.
Coverage continues of Senate Democrats’ failure to block a Republican filibuster of the DISCLOSE Act, a legislative response to Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
NOTE TO READERS: The following is an update on a post published earlier Friday. —————- The Ninth Circuit Court refused on Friday to put the constitutional test over Arizona’s authority to control illegal aliens living within its borders on the especially fast schedule that the state had asked, adopting instead a plan that follows its normal pace for handling cases of this kind.
In a rare commentary by a member of the Supreme Court on Senate hearings for a potential colleague, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday sought to correct the views of members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who recently suggested that foreign law has no place in America’s legal principles.
FURTHER UPDATE 5:55 p.m. The state of Arizona has now filed in the Ninth Circuit Court a motion for expedited briefing and hearing of its appeal of Judge Susan Bolton’s order Wednesday partially blocking the state’s new alien control law.
Yesterday Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine became the fourth Republican senator to announce that she would vote in favor of Elena Kagan’s confirmation to the Court.
Through Sunday, August 15, we are continuing to accept applications for both blog internships. Through Saturday, August 7, we are accepting applications for the job opening for a special assistant to Tom Goldstein/Howe & Russell office manager/SCOTUSblog staff member.
Yesterday Senate Democrats were unable to break a Republican filibuster on the DISCLOSE Act, a legislative response to the Court’s recent decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that would require more disclosure in campaign spending.
Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow discusses her new book, In Brown’s Wake, discussing the landmark case’s symbolism and its causal role in legal developments.
This post is a round-up of weekend news and commentary about the Court. A round-up of coverage from today will appear tomorrow morning. Adam Liptak has two new features on the Court in yesterday’s New York Times.