Every post published in July 2019, most recent first.
Seth Waxman is a partner at WilmerHale. He served as Solicitor General of the United States from 1997 to 2001. No one who’s heard Michael Dreeben deliver an oral argument can fail to be impressed by his mastery of the art.
William C. Bryson is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He was Michael Dreeben’s immediate predecessor as deputy solicitor general for criminal cases at the Department of Justice. Thousands of lawyers have cycled through the Department of Justice over the years.
Briefly: At The National Law Review, Brian Pierson notes that “[t]ribes scored major victories” at the Supreme Court this term, and he looks at two Indian law “cases the Court chose not to decide.” In the Kitsap Bar Report, Jeff Tolman reminisces about a five-day visit by the late Justice John Paul Stevens and the justice’s wife Maryan to the small town of Poulsbo, Washington.
Noel Francisco is the Solicitor General of the United States. Over his 31 years of service in the Office of the Solicitor General, Michael Dreeben has made Supreme Court history in several ways. Perhaps the most remarkable came on April 27, 2016, when he argued his 100th case before the court.
Briefly: At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie identifies some “unanswered questions” in the Supreme Court’s recent order allowing the Trump administration “to start building a fence along America’s southern border using money Congress appropriated for other projects.” Hansi Lo
On Friday evening, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to block a lower-court order that had prevented the government from spending $2.6 billion in Pentagon funds for construction of part of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Edmund LaCour is the solicitor general of Alabama. The Supreme Court’s decisions in this term’s death penalty cases suggest that the court is more willing than before to defer to the states’ judgments about how the death penalty should be carried out and who should be subjected to it, and that inmates challenging their death sentences should bring their challenges without delay.
The Supreme Court tonight agreed to put on hold a lower-court ruling that had barred the government from spending $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
By what was effectively a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court yesterday agreed to fully stay a California district court’s injunction against President Donald Trump’s repurposing of appropriated funds to build part of his “border wall.” The Supreme Court’s summary order in Trump v. Sierra Club offered one
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address the scope of the United States Forest Service’s authority to grant rights-of-way in national-forest lands and whether the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violates the separation of powers.