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Posted on October 16, 2009 Leave a Comment
Not that they are suckers for pageantry or anything, but three U.S. Supreme Court justices tagged along when the U.K. Supreme Court was opened earlier today. They rubbed shoulders with the likes of Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Archbishop of Canterbury (none of that separation of church and state nonsense back […]
Posted on October 15, 2009 Leave a Comment
The U.S. Supreme Court public information office just issued a release stating that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized again Wednesday night after “an apparent adverse reaction to a sleeping aid combined with cold medication” that she took before boarding a flight to London. The justice “experienced extreme drowsiness causing her to fall from her […]
Posted on October 14, 2009 Leave a Comment
If you thought Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s remarks about judges being umpires who are “servants of the law” was just a cute soundbite designed to win confirmation to the Supreme Court, then think again. Although not talking about judges, he touched upon a related issue about whether lawyers can affect the outcome of […]
Posted on October 9, 2009 Leave a Comment
Your blogger was a little disappointed with the episode of C-Span’s Supreme Court series that focused on the reporters who cover the court. There was a little bit too much discussion of the justices and the inner workings of the court (although Lyle Denniston and Joan Biskupic did a perfectly good job of explaining everything) […]
Posted on October 7, 2009 Leave a Comment
During today’s U.S. Supreme Court argument about a cross that sits in the middle of nowhere in the Mojave Desert, Justice Antonin Scalia and a lawyer for the ACLU got into a bit of a tussle. Although the confrontation might not make it onto Justice Samuel Alito’s “Human Sacrifice Channel,” it was still fairly lively. […]
Posted on October 6, 2009 Leave a Comment
It’s only the second day of the term, but the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are already indulging in their love for colorful hypothetical questions seemingly aimed at flummoxing the lawyers appearing before them. This morning, in a high-profile First Amendment case about whether a criminal statute that bans the depiction of animal cruelty […]
Posted on October 2, 2009 Leave a Comment
It seems like the new U.K. Supreme Court is not quite so transparent as we were expecting. Yes, all hearings will be televised, unlike the U.S. Supreme Court, but, as the UK Press Gazette reports, press were barred from the official swearing in of the new justices Thursday. Apparently, the court’s own team filmed the […]
Posted on September 24, 2009 Leave a Comment
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was taken to hospital this evening after feeling faint. The 76-year old was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year. This is the full release from the Supreme Court public information office: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was taken to the Washington Hospital Center this evening after feeling ill […]
Posted on September 16, 2009 Leave a Comment
There’s been a lot of debate over the last week about how the Supreme Court will rule in Citizens United v. FEC, the major campaign finance case that was re-argued Sept. 9. For what it’s worth, your blogger’s analysis was published in the Daily Journal Monday (subscribers only), focusing on what Chief Justice John G. […]
Posted on August 6, 2009 Leave a Comment
Your blogger can’t wait for today’s Senate vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor. It will finally put an end to a month of pointless Senate rhetoric. To emphasize the utter predictability of the confirmation process, let’s take a look at the opening paragraphs of the preview story that ran in the Daily Journal on Monday July […]
Lawrence Hurley 