But White House blocked the proposal to regulate the channels and instrumentalities of interstate commerce.
Imagine how things would be different had a 2002 Bush proposal to deescalate judicial nominations been adopted.
The Washington Department of Child, Youth, and Families reached this decision based on the purely hypothetical possibility that maybe the 1-year-old might eventually be attracted to girls, or might want to transition to being a boy; but a federal judge just held in the great-grandparents’ favor.
Tax returns, ballot deadlines, and Pocky cookies.
The National Law Journal asked several legal commentators to suggest questions for the president's Supreme Court nominee.
An Ohio judge suggests the answer should be "yes," and an Ohio statute seems to require that when Facebook employees learn of specific felonies revealed by posts that they might be monitoring for some reason.
Here are some ways to build a campus culture more open to free inquiry and discourse.
Pretty darn well, thank you.
Eight months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court finally manages to punt on an abortion case.
Uncle Joe forgets the first two rules of Court Packing: "You’ll Know My Opinion On Court Packing When The Election’s Over”
The Administration claims money damages are never "appropriate" under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act - even when they are the only possible means of redressing rights violations.
It predicted Judges Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Willett on the Supreme Court
Get the TRO Applications Ready.
RBG ignored Obama's winks and nods. Justice Breyer was not interested in becoming ambassador to France.
"The university's Office for Equity, Equal Opportunity and Title IX (EEO-TIX) ... concluded that ... Professor Patton's actions did not violate the university's policy."
Chokeholds, no-knock raids, and mass torts.
Two constitutional rights plus one outside catalyst do not equal one constitutional wrong.
"The Croziers allege that the teacher 'lied to intentionally defame and label A.C. as a 'racist who said the N-word.'"
There are some references to the ACA litigation
Judge Willett, Eugene Volokh, Randy Barnett, and others make the cut.
What I wrote in 2016 still applies today.
Chief Justice Ralph Gants may be dead, but that is not stopping him from authoring opinions.
This would include group membership, information about where a spouse works, and more.
So concludes the Louisiana Supreme Court, in allowing a prisoner access to the jury vote breakdown in his case—quite important given the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling rejecting Louisiana nonunanimous convictions.
To avert Court Packing, would the Chief Justice allow a President Biden to appoint his replacement?
Morrison v. Olson, forevermore.
The idea has a lot of merit. But it will be hard to enact, and probably won't do much to end partisan conflict over Supreme Court appointments.
A look at the numbers shows that both the President and his critics get it wrong.
Limiting justices to a single 18-year term would de-escalate judicial confirmation fights.
A trial court said this pouring (without the target's consent) was indeed constitutionally protected; it took a 2-1 Texas Court of Appeals decision to reverse that.
The prospects are far from ideal. But it is still potentially feasible.
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