Every post published in August 2020, most recent first.
Briefly: In USA Today, Richard Wolf examines how the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this summer in June Medical Services v. Russo, striking down a restrictive Louisiana abortion law, is affecting other abortion litigation in the lower courts.
Deanne Maynard, co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice, has argued 14 cases before the Supreme Court since her first oral argument in 2004.
Briefly: In an article published by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, SCOTUSblog Books Editor Ronald Collins examines the Supreme Court’s recent decision on robocalls in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants and argues that the decision “turned the First Amendment
The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to reinstate a requirement for patients seeking abortions to visit doctor’s offices in order to obtain one of the drugs used in medication-induced abortions — a requirement that opponents say subjects patients to unnecessary risk during the
This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to decide the constitutionality of a Kansas law on voter registration and a California law on union organizing. Schwab v. Fish involves a Kansas law that requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday night declined to block the execution, scheduled for Wednesday, of Lezmond Mitchell, the only Native American on federal death row. The justices, without any noted dissents, denied two emergency requests from Mitchell seeking to postpone the execution.
The federal government is scheduled to proceed Wednesday with the execution of Lezmond Mitchell after the Supreme Court, on Tuesday night, denied two emergency requests from Mitchell to halt the execution.
Briefly: At CNN, Dan Berman and Caroline Kelly report on a new emergency request to the Supreme Court from Montana’s secretary of state, who asked the justices on Monday “to intervene in a fight over whether the Green Party can be on the state ballot this fall.” The World and Everything In It
After last week’s Democratic National Convention, and with Republicans set to take their turn this week, news coverage of the Supreme Court has focused on the ways the court is — or is not — emerging as an issue in the presidential election.
The Supreme Court on Monday expanded the amount of time for oral argument in the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act that the justices will hear this fall. In a brief order, the court granted a request from the House of Representatives to lengthen the Nov. 10 argument.