Wednesday round-up
The Supreme Court — and President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett — were the subject of the first segment of Tuesday night’s chaotic presidential debate.
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Event announcement: ABA and American University to host “On the Docket: Looking at the New Supreme Court Term”
On Thursday, Oct. 1, at 12 p.m. EDT, the American Bar Association Public Education Division and the Program on Law & Government at American University Washington College of Law will co-host a virtual briefing of the upcoming Supreme Court term.
Case preview: In newest chapter in long-running water dispute, court will hear first-ever challenge to ruling by interstate river master
Texas v. New Mexico is a new dispute in an old Supreme Court proceeding, first filed in 1974 but, until recently, dormant since the early 1990s. The litigation involves the Pecos River, the waters of which are apportioned between New Mexico and Texas under the Pecos River Compact, approved by Congress in 1949.
Tuesday round-up
The justices are meeting privately on Tuesday for their so-called “long conference,” during which they will review hundreds of cert petitions that have accumulated over the summer and decide which of those cases to add to the Supreme Court’s docket for the 2020-21 term.
Symposium: Ginsburg was a champion of voting rights, but mostly in dissent
This article is the first entry in a symposium on the jurisprudence of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Richard L. Hasen is the chancellor’s professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine School of Law and the founder of Election Law Blog.
Monday round-up
Reporters and legal commentators turned their focus over the weekend to Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“What would Ruth do?”: A feminist pioneer on what Justice Ginsburg meant to her
This tribute is the last in a series on the life and work of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, political activist and feminist organizer.
Who is Amy Coney Barrett?
Who is Judge Amy Coney Barrett and what’s next for her confirmation battle? Amy Howe answers these questions and more on this week’s episode of SCOTUStalk.
October Term 2020 and the specter of (a lot of) mootness
Recent discussions of the Supreme Court’s upcoming term have understandably focused on the implications of the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — and the seemingly inevitable confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to succeed her.
Pennsylvania GOP leaders ask justices to block order on counting absentee ballots after Election Day (updated)
Telling the Supreme Court that there is a “very real possibility that the final presidential election results” could rest on the outcome of voting in Pennsylvania, Republicans in the state asked the justices on Monday to block a ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that would require election