“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused ‘several’ Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices of lying to the Senate about their views of Roe v. Wade,” Huffington Post reported after a draft opinion by Samuel Alito leaked to the media. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’
May 2nd, 2022 - 10:30 pm § in Law and Courts
What the leaked draft means for abortion
First, this isn’t a Supreme Court decision yet, only a draft, but it probably reflects what the court’s going to do and is pretty close to the eventual decision’s final form. Republicans are already angrily accusing Democrats of leaking the draft in order to “attack the court[...]
Arthur A. Allen is the deep state
Writer Michael Lewis (profile here) describes what he does: “[W]e had our government shutdown in December 2018 and … I asked for a list of people who’d been sent home …. It was not a random sample of federal employees. It was federal employees who’d been nominated for one of th[...]
April 23rd, 2022 - 3:05 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Could tribes go into the abortion business?
If the Supreme Court lets states outlaw abortion, could abortion clinics still operate on Native American reservations in those states? In theory, the answer appears to be “yes,” because reservations are federal land, and states can’t legislate what happens there. It’s actual[...]
April 6th, 2022 - 1:33 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Irrational GOP senator accuses Supreme Court nominee of doing something before she was born
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) played the “Nazi card” yesterday. “You know, the last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg and prosecute the Nazis,” he said, referring to the late Robert Jackson. Then, referring to Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, he asserted: [...]
Graham flip-flops on Supreme Court nominee he previously voted for
When Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) ran for president in 2016, he was one of my favorites in the GOP field. I especially liked his military background, and thought, “Hmm, here’s a principled Republican I maybe could vote for.” Boy, was I wrong then. Since then, his stature has shrunk t[...]
March 25th, 2022 - 10:56 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Shouldn’t Thomas recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases?
Why bother to ask? He won’t, and there’s no way to make him. That’s the end of it. It’s not a closely-held secret that his wife, Ginni Thomas, is a hyper-partisan dickhead wrapped in rightwing conspiracy theories. She’s been that for a long time (see her profile here). [...]
Can Ted Cruz read?
I got my start with Jack and Jill, and over time gradually progressed to reading the stuff I write about on this blog and a lot more. I’m not sure Ted Cruz made it up the hill, but I doubt he’s read Anti-Racist Baby — he either didn’t bother, or can’t. Ted claims the bo[...]
February 25th, 2022 - 9:31 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Why Senate should confirm Jackson for Supreme Court
Biden’s choice of Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court is no surprise. She has a very strong resume, and was always the frontrunner. Jackson has the traditional Supreme Court credentials: Harvard, magna cum laude; Harvard Law, cum laude, and Harvard Law Review; clerked at the district, [...]
February 23rd, 2022 - 3:16 pm § in Biden, Law and Courts
Who’s still in the Supreme Court running?
Biden “is expected” to name his Supreme Court nominee within days, the Guardian says (here), and has interviewed three black women widely considered leading candidates. They are Ketanji Brown Jackson (left), Leondra Kruger (center), and J. Michelle Childs (right); the media have portraye[...]