#Justices

Holly Brewer

earlymodjustice

Question for @TheGNapp and @JRakove and @dorfonlaw . I know it says in Art III Sect 1 of the Constitution that judges “will hold their offices during good behavior” which

Ted Boutrous

BoutrousTed

We need so many amendments to the Constitution. Specific limits on pardon power Right to educational equality Right to vote President can be prosecuted for crimes Equal rights for women,

Jason Johnson

DrJasonJohnson

If the nominees are simply allowed to lie during hearings, even when the lie is easily proven with documents, recordings or witnesses, then what is the point? #SCOTUShearings If #BidenHarris2020

Jeremy Gans

jeremy_gans

Once a jury found Pell guilty, his case was always going to end up in @highcourtofaus: https://cdn.hcourt.gov.au/assets/registry/court-lists/2020/7-04-20.pdf. But I always expected a whimper (a one-line rejection of special leave),not a

Dwight Newman

DwightNewmanLaw

The #carbontax proceedings at the Supreme Court of Canada are now under half an hour away. The main legal issue concerns scope of what the federal gov't can regulate under

Del. Danica Roem

pwcdanica

Every Democratic presidential ticket since I cast my first ballot has featured a Catholic: 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020. I voted for all of them - and I have

Gabriel Malor

gabrielmalor

Reminder: when SCOTUS rules on administrative stays we know only at a minimum that five justices voted for the stay, plus whatever else they tell us. Here, only Justice Sotomayor

SEFF

SEFFLisnaskea

SEFF remembers Resident Magistrate Martin McBirney, from a Protestant faith background was murdered 46 yrs ago, 16/9/74 by PIRA. He was shot dead in the kitchen of his Belfast home,

Mark Joseph Stern

mjs_DC

Justices Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh all wrote dissents from tonight’s 5–4 decision turning away a church’s challenge to Nevada’s COVID restrictions, an unusual move in the denial of an emergency

Josh Douglas

JoshuaADouglas

THREAD on #SCOTUS 4-4 decision refusing to intervene in Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision. It's a BIG deal.Normally, the U.S. Supreme Court won't hear cases from state courts about state law.

Tim Hogan

TimInHonolulu

1. #CourtPacking: On Feb 5, 1937, #FDR announced his #CourtPacking plan to deal with a conservative Supreme Court that was acting as a super-legislature to overturn the desperately needed recovery

David Gibson

GibsonWrites

If we step back from the faux-rage at supposed anti-Catholicism against SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett the big story here remains the fact that there are SIX Catholic on the

Kimberly Robinson

KimberlyRobinsn

#SCOTUS orders county boards in Pennsylvania to segregate mail-in ballots received after 8 pm on Election Day. As @GregStohr noted, there are likely to be only a small number of

Harmeet K. Dhillon

pnjaban

1/ "Conservatives" impotently dithering about whether to support a Ginsburg replacement vote: Hanging in the balance is whether court, viz. J. Roberts, continues to block application of equal protection, due

Sheldon Whitehouse

SenWhitehouse

Here’s what 80 Supreme Court cases look like, laid out on the floor — 80 partisan, 5-4 Supreme Court decisions clearly favoring a big Republican donor interest, all since Roberts

Daddy Wuffster

JimmyWuffster

If you chose not to vote for Biden, and that leaves Trump in power for four more years, enabling the most powerful country in the world to be lead by