Every post published in August 2018, most recent first.
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address whether a general choice-of-law clause in a contract that contains an arbitration agreement should be read to import state substantive law without importing state rules impairing arbitration, the effect of the Prison
Orrin Hatch is the senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. A focus of many, including myself, in evaluating Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s judicial record and philosophy has been his opinions, both judicial and academic, on the constitutional separation of powers.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court will begin on Tuesday. Tucker Higgins of CNBC previews what to expect next week.
With only a few days left before Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court, Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, yesterday indicated that “he can’t foresee anything that would make him delay next week’s hearings,” reports Tony Leys of Des Moines Register.
On Tuesday, September 4, at 9:30 a.m., the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin its hearing on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. SCOTUSblog will live-blog the entire hearing.
The Supreme Court today declined to intervene in a dispute between the city of Philadelphia and Catholic Social Services over foster care and the Catholic Church’s position on same-sex marriage.
Jonathan Hafetz is a senior staff attorney in the Center for Democracy at the American Civil Liberties Union and a professor of law at Seton Hall Law School.
With Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing set for next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, more information about the hearing emerges, including that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican of Ohio, and Lisa Blatt, a Supreme Court litigator, will introduce the nominee.
Carolyn Shapiro is associate professor of law and co-director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Contemporary Supreme Court confirmation hearings are both exciting and disappointing.
With a week before his hearing in the Senate, Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh continues to garner coverage. Tony Mauro for The National Law Journal reports that 41 appellate advocates sent the Senate Judiciary Committee a letter expressing “strong support” for Kavanaugh.