Every post published in January 2018, most recent first.
For USA Today, Richard Wolf reports that President Donald Trump was “without a Supreme Court quorum” in the audience for last night’s State of the Union address, and that “[t]he four justices who [were] in attendance — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Neil
The justices are in recess but their actions—particularly Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s—continue to attract attention.
On Friday the Supreme Court received a request from Republican legislators in Pennsylvania to temporarily block a ruling by the state’s supreme court invalidating the state’s federal congressional map. Amy Howe has this blog‘s coverage; her post first appeared at Howe on the Court.
The justices met on Friday for their February 16 conference; our “petitions to watch” for that conference are available at this link. The calendar for the February sitting, which begins on February 20, is available on the Supreme Court’s website.
The Supreme Court yesterday received yet another request to intervene in a state’s redistricting battle – this time from Republican legislators in Pennsylvania, who asked the justices to temporarily block a ruling by the state’s supreme court invalidating the state’s federal congressional map.
Redistricting challenges continue to come before the Supreme Court. Yesterday Pennsylvania asked the Supreme Court to step in and block temporarily a ruling by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania striking down the state’s federal congressional map.
Charles Rothfeld is special counsel at Mayer Brown. He will file an amicus brief on behalf of the State and Local Legal Center supporting the respondents in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky.
Yesterday the Supreme Court released its argument calendar for the March sitting, which begins on Monday, March 19. Amy Howe has this blog‘s coverage; her post first appeared at Howe on the Court.
Ken Klukowski is an attorney representing the American Civil Rights Union, which filed an amicus brief in support of the challengers in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, and is also senior legal editor for Breitbart News Network.
Elizabeth Slattery is a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation and co-host of SCOTUS 101, a podcast about the Supreme Court. When was the last time a T-shirt changed the way you voted? Probably never, but the state of Minnesota thinks you’re much more impressionable.