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Posted on August 5, 2009 Leave a Comment
If you are wondering where Justice Clarence Thomas is at the moment, the answer is that he is somewhere in upstate New York with his wife, Ginni, in an RV. As is customary for the open road-loving justice, he’s taking in some “real America” over the summer months (not to be confused with the “fake America” […]
Posted on July 27, 2009 Leave a Comment
In Friday’s Los Angeles Daily Journal (subscribers only), your correspondent had a story looking at the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Horne v. Flores. The story is part of a three-part series examining the practical impact of some of last term’s cases. It turns out that government lawyers are already citing Horne with some regularity in […]
Posted on July 13, 2009 Leave a Comment
In case you hadn’t noticed, Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing began today. Your correspondent was liveblogging at the L.A. Daily Journal’s website, which – unfortunately – is behind a pay wall. He will be doing the same tomorrow. Readers can also check out the Twitter feed to the right of the screen. Anyway, we can all […]
Posted on June 29, 2009 Leave a Comment
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the departing Justice David H. Souter exchanged gushing letters of admiration this morning. As Souter got ready to take the first available transport back home to New Hampshire, he and Roberts both read their lovey-dovey, poetry-quoting letters from the bench as the court concluded its business for the […]
Posted on June 11, 2009 Leave a Comment
In today’s Los Angeles Daily Journal (subscribers only), your blogger takes a look at Sonia Sotomayor’s teaching career at Columbia and NYU. Quick summary: Contrary to accusations made about her by conservative activists, who are seeking to portray the nominee as a liberal activist, she always told students that judges should follow the law, respect […]
Posted on June 2, 2009 Leave a Comment
Here’s a quick summary of a story in last Friday’s Daily Journal (subscribers only) in which your blogger took a look at Sonia Sotomayor’s environmental record as a judge on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In short, her ruling against the Bush administration in Riverkeeper v. EPA, which was recently reversed by the Supreme Court, […]
Posted on May 29, 2009 Leave a Comment
While reviewing some of his old stories about Samuel Alito in the wake of Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination, your blogger came upon a reference to Mark Levy, the Washington appellate attorney who committed suicide late last month. He and Alito were friends dating back to their days at Yale Law School. The story of how a […]
Posted on May 22, 2009 Leave a Comment
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs momentarily stunned a bunch of hacks getting ready for the long weekend when he joked today that the president will announce his Supreme Court nominee at 6.30am Saturday morning. Transcript: Gotcha! I’m done. That’s obviously a joke, but I did love to see that — if somebody can quickly […]
Posted on May 7, 2009 Leave a Comment
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg seemed to be referring to comments made by Justice Stephen G. Breyer at a recent argument when she complained in a USA Today interview with Joan Biskupic about the problems she faces as the only woman on the court. Her status as the court’s lone woman was especially poignant during a recent case involving […]
Posted on April 29, 2009 Leave a Comment
Not for the first time, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. showed his apparent affinity with detective fiction writers this morning. Last October, in Pennsylvania v. Dunlap, he wrote several paragraphs in the style of genre detective fiction. This time around, in Dean v. United States, he adopted the tone of a narrator in a crime TV […]
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