This week at the court
The justices will meet for their next conference on Friday, January 5. The calendar for the January sitting, which begins on January 8, is available on the Supreme Court’s website.
December 2017 Archive
Every post published in December 2017, most recent first.
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SCOTUS for law students: Gorsuch’s start (Corrected)
There has been much commentary in recent months about the aggressive start Justice Neil Gorsuch has made since being sworn in on April 10, 2017. But how does the early stage of his tenure compare to those of his most recent predecessors, Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor?
SCOTUS Map: December 2017
It’s been a relatively quiet December here at SCOTUS Map. Justice Samuel Alito headlined a pair of events at the New-York Historical Society early in the month.
Wednesday round-up
Briefly: At the Cato Institute’s Cato at Liberty blog, Ilya Shapiro and others weigh in on National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, a First Amendment challenge by crisis-pregnancy centers to a California law that requires disclosures about the availability of publicly funded
Academic highlight: Telling stories in the Supreme Court
Linda Edwards is a professor at UNLV Boyd School of Law. Among the welter of amicus briefs in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt was a brief filed by 112 women lawyers. In it, these women told the world, many for the first time, that they have had an abortion.
Tuesday round-up
Briefly: Constitution Daily reviews the major Supreme Court decisions of 2017. At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman analyzes the oral-argument engagement of the justices and advocates so far this term, remarking on the “potential strategic nature” of Justice Neil Gorsuch’s participation.
Symposium: Agency fees benefit the workplace — just ask the states
Xavier Becerra is the attorney general of California. Aimee Feinberg is a deputy solicitor general in the California Department of Justice. States like California have a great deal on the line in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31: Unions that give voice to public employees may no longer be able to effectively do their job, depending on how the Supreme Court rules.
Friday round-up
Briefly: At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie notes that a study of “more than 3,000 hours of audio recordings of Supreme Court oral arguments between 1982 and 2014” suggests that “[t]he pitch of judges’ voices conveys more about their eventual votes than ‘legal, political and
Symposium: Evidence shows unions will survive without agency fees
Patrick Wright is the vice president for legal affairs at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioner in Janus v. American Federation.
Exams aren’t over yet: SCOTUS quiz on “Table for 9”
We dine once a year with the President, and that is all. On other days we take our dinner together, and discuss at table the questions which are argued before us. We are great ascetics, and even deny ourselves wine, except in wet weather [when it is medicinally advisable].