Showing posts with label Supreme Court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supreme Court. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Slippery Slope/Tit for Tat

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 One of the arguments of "Hive" is that research shows that in a prisoner's dilemna game which extends over multiple sessions,...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

SCOTUS Standards

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 NYTimes reports on a letter sent to Chief Justice Roberts claiming a leak of the decision in 2014 in the Hobby-Lobby case.  Although the ...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Affirmative Action--Three Posts

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SCOTUS considers affirmative action today, the occasion for lots of comments; Three blog posts of note:  Kevin Drum argues from the experie...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

Fixing SCOTUS

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 I tend to the position that any "fix" to SCOTUS is likely going to be worse than the current situation.  Vox has 10 possibilities...
Friday, July 01, 2022

What Really Matters to Congress: Policy or Offices?

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 David Brooks on Newshour Friday said he'd learned, contrary to the assumptions of political scientists,  that people don't want pow...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

Tradition, Tradition...

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 Says Justice Alito (who apparently loves Fiddler on the Roo f)  I write that after reading this New Yorker interview with Neal Katyal , who...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

History and SCOTUS

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 It's unfair that Republican appointees have dominated the Supreme Court for the last 50 years or so.  Elsewhere I've blamed LBJ for...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

The Problems With Executive Action

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 Dylan Mathews has a post at Vox: "10 enormously consequential things Biden can do without the Senate". He writes: "Pushing ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Will Justice Barrett Disappoint the Right?

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 She's almost guaranteed to.  Only Justices Alito and Thomas have not, in recent memory at least, disappointed the right on some decisio...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Fixing the Court

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 A lot of discussion among Democrats over what to do about a Supreme Court with a 6-3 conservative majority. I'd suggest one strategy no...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

The Hullabaloo Over SCOTUS

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 Back in the 1960's the right was all "Impeach Earl Warren".  Part of the outrage as I remember it was over decisions on crime...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

SCOTUS and the Albright Rule

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In a NSC discussion over whether and how to intervene in the Balkans during the Clinton administration Madeliene Albright said something lik...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

RBG RIP

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 My wife and I were fans of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at least in the sense we saw the documentary and then the biipic made of her life.  She pre...
Monday, June 15, 2020

"A Switch Before Time" Coming?

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The Supreme Court famously defanged FDR's court-packing plan by delivering some pro-New Deal decisions--the " switch in time saved ...
Friday, August 23, 2019

On the Basis of Sex

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Today's news about Justice Ginsburg's pancreatic cancer comes a few days after we watched the biopic: " On the Basis of Sex ...
Monday, July 15, 2019

President Carter and the Courts

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Slate has an interesting piece on President Carter's approach to filling judicial vacancies: Some points: he was able to persuade Sen...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

LBJ's Biggest Mistake: Vietnam or Fortas?

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Was in a discussion this morning on Supreme Court confirmations, which caused me to remember one of LBJ's biggest mistakes. Briefly, wit...
Saturday, October 06, 2018

SCOTUS Prediction

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By this time in 2020 I don't think the Kavanaugh appointment will be much of an issue.  Roe v Wade will still be good law, although the ...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

How Far Ahead Are Democrats Thinking?

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There's lots of comments about the impact of Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.  There's also Democratic proposals for what they want t...
Sunday, July 08, 2018

The Importance of SCOTUS

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Someone in the Times today wrote to the effect that the importance of Trump's choice for the Supreme Court is beyond calculation.   That...