Every post published in 2020, most recent first.
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: My Joe Biden Story (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times) What’s To Come For The Supreme Court (Here and Now, WBUR) The Next Big Patent Eligibility Push Is On at the Supreme Court (Scott Graham, The National Law Journal) Happy new year!
Twelve days after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with a plan to change how census numbers are used to determine congressional representation, the Census Bureau confirmed that it would not meet a key year-end deadline to provide state-by-state population counts to the president.
The Supreme Court on Thursday released the calendar for its February argument session, which begins on Feb. 22, 2021.
Chief Justice John Roberts issued his annual year-end report on Thursday, and the theme – perhaps unsurprisingly – was the coronavirus pandemic.
Few people get the chance to watch an oral argument at the Supreme Court. Art Lien is one of them. As an artist who has been sketching the court for more than four decades, Lien has attended – and studied – hundreds of arguments.
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Trump Campaign Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Biden’s Wisconsin Win (Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal) Religion, Abortion, Guns And Race.
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Second half of SCOTUS term may bring the temperature down compared to its feverish first (Mark Walsh, ABA Journal) Justices Staring Down Another Slow Term Despite Head Start (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Amy Coney Barrett steers the Supreme Court to the right, but not toward President Trump (Richard Wolf, USA Today) A Cheerleader’s Vulgar Message Prompts a First Amendment Showdown (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that Rebecca Anne Womeldorf has been named the new reporter of decisions. She succeeds Christine Luchok Fallon, who retired in September. Womeldorf will begin her new job on Jan. 13, 2021.
This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to delve further into contentious issues of immigration policy. One group of cases challenges the Trump administration’s attempt to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities.