"Considering recent events, and absent extraordinary change, we will not hire anyone who joins the Columbia University community—whether as undergraduates or law students—beginning with the entering class of 2024."
The Biden Administration "reconsiders" Obama Administration policy from 2012, expands ACA coverage to DACA recipients.
The clear statement rule and the major question doctrine both function as substantive separation of powers canons in order to avoid deciding if federal actions are unconstitutional.
"A plainly anti-Semitic poster received just a handful of complaints from Jewish staff and students"
Questions from Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch revisit unresolved issues from 2017-2020.
Would the Governor's veto of the bill have even been effective?
Can a state trial court issue an "universal injunction" against all parts of a new law, even though "only two named plaintiffs have alleged narrow harms from only one part of the law."
Justice Kavanaugh laid out a unifying theory for the Shadow Docket.
The walls are closing on universal, non-party injunctions against state laws.
Justice Thomas: “constitutional rights are generally invoked defensively in cases arising under other sources of law, or asserted offensively pursuant to an independent cause of action designed for that purpose”
A careful textualist analysis that speaks more broadly to other substantive canons, including Chevron deference.
No matter how you slice it, Smith cannot exercise the powers he purports to exercise.
"This isn’t about forum shopping. It’s about forum shaming. It’s about shaming judges who won’t distort their rulings to do their bidding—while rewarding those judges who do."
"Though at times the two seem more like in-laws than soulmates."
"I never thought I would see such blatant antisemitism."
Gibbons declined to take senior status during the Trump years, but will now be replaced by her former law clerk.
McConnell's bill would ensure that no one can benefit from nationwide injunctions. Schumer's bill would ensure that liberal litigants still benefit from nationwide injunctions.
