Friday round-up
Following Monday’s Supreme Court ruling largely lifting the injunctions against enforcement of the administration’s entry ban, the modified ban took effect last night.
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Summer reading for court watchers
Now that October Term 2016 is over and the history of the Supreme Court has turned another page, there’s time to relax and savor the riches of a good book related to the court. Below is a list, by no means comprehensive, of mostly recent books.
Immigration symposium: Prelude to a turning point
Charles Roth is the Director of Litigation at the National Immigrant Justice Center. NIJC filed or joined amicus briefs in seven of the cases discussed below. Most deportation orders are entered in obscurity, without counsel, without even an immigration judge to do the honors.
Immigration symposium: Immigration nuggets from October Term 2016 – What do they foreshadow?
John C. Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service, and former Dean, at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, and a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute. The Supreme Court’s October Term 2016, just concluded, might justifiably be described as fairly lackluster.
Thursday round-up
At Constitution Daily, Lyle Denniston reports on the court’s Tuesday orders, including its decision to send several cases involving aid to private schools operated by religious organizations back for reconsideration in light of Monday’s decision limiting “the power of states under their state
Immigration symposium: On immigration matters, the court’s watchwords are caution and deference
Richard Samp is Chief Counsel of the Washington Legal Foundation, which filed a brief in Ziglar v. Abbasi on behalf of five former attorneys general and two former FBI directors, and a brief in Jennings v. Rodriguez on behalf of 31 members of Congress.
Death-penalty symposium: In search of predictability
Joseph Tartakovsky is the Deputy Solicitor General of the state of Nevada. He was counsel of record for the 30 amicus states in Davila v. Davis. Vantage determines one’s approach to death-penalty cases, the most fraught of all legal contests.
Immigration symposium: The future of immigration exceptionalism
David S. Rubenstein is Professor of Law and Director, Robert J. Dole Center for Law & Government, Washburn University School of Law. For anyone still wondering how President Donald Trump’s travel ban is possibly constitutional, “immigration exceptionalism” is the reason.
Death-penalty symposium: A court increasingly uncomfortable with the death penalty
Stephen McAllister is the Solicitor General of Kansas and the E.S. & Tom W. Hampton Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law.
Symposium: Playground resurfacing case provides soft landing for state “no aid” provisions
Alice O’Brien is general counsel for the National Education Association. She filed an amicus brief in support of the state in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer.