Famous
Supreme Court Plaintiffs: a Quiz; Can you recognize Dred Scott? Jane Roe?
Ernesto Miranda? [Slate, 9/24/14]: One of the oddities of our
constitutional system is the random way in which a normal, unremarkable human
person can become synonymous with an entire legal rule or principle. The names
of the plaintiffs in some of the most famous cases in Supreme Court history may
be remembered for centuries. But do we remember their faces?
Drama,
controversy marked the first Supreme Court justices [Constitution Daily, 9/24/14]: It was 227 years ago today that
Congress signed the law that created the framework for the Supreme Court, and a
look back at the first court shows personal drama that included a justice
dodging creditors, a failed suicide attempt, and a chief justice who was
America’s most hated man, for a time.
LII Supreme Court Preview for New Term [LII, 9/23/14]: The Supreme Court will hear ten cases in
October. As always, the students who staff our Supreme Court Bulletin will
tell you everything you need to know about the background, arguments, and
larger significance of each and every case the Court will hear all term.
We'll deliver each preview to your inbox in plenty of time to keep you apprised
of all that's going on at the Court. Meanwhile, what follows is a quick
"preview of the Previews" to let our subscribers know that October
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Roberts at 10 [Constitutional Accountability
Center, 9/24/14]: A Look at the First Decade of John Roberts's Tenure as Chief
Justice.
http://theusconstitution.org/sites/default/files/briefs/Roberts-at-10-A-Look-at-the-First-Decade.pdf
Chemerinsky:
Federal courts could turn on next 2 elections [OC Register, 9/24/14]: Among the most important numbers in
contemplating the 2016 presidential election and, for that matter, the races
this November for the U.S. Senate, are 81, 78, 78, 76. These are the ages,
respectively, of Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia,
Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer. Who replaces them, and who serves on the
lower federal courts, will affect each of our lives for decades to come.
Ruth
Bader Ginsburg: Why I can't resign now [Politico, 9/24/14]: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg is pushing back against suggestions that she should soon retire,
saying President Barack Obama would be unable to get a justice like her through
the Senate.
Editorial: Supreme Court must
restore states' rights in defining marriage; Justices owe it to nation to undo
rogue judges' damage
[Wash Times, 9/23/14]: The first Monday in October draws nigh, which means Supreme Court clerks
are lining up cases for the upcoming term. At the top of the agenda will be, or
should be, what to do about flighty federal judges in a dither to nullify
properly established marriage laws throughout the country.
America’s New War
President [Politico, 9/24/14]:
With a broad campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, Obama has a
chance to remake his legacy.
Barack Obama and Hillary
Clinton: It's complicated [Politico,
9/24/14]: Just over a year ago at the request of the White House, Hillary
Clinton worked the phones with about a half-dozen senators, trying to sell
Congress on authorizing military strikes against Syria. Weeks later, at the
Clinton Global Initiative, the former secretary of state defended President
Barack Obama against Republican efforts to defund his health care
overhaul.
US provides legal
justification for Syrian airstrikes [Jurist,
9/24/14]: The US government on Tuesday insisted
in a letter to the UN that the American-led airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State were legally justified
because actions were taken in defense of Iraq.
First Amendment rights imperiled by overbroad laws restricting
nude photos [1st Amend.
Coalition, 9/24/14]: The
recently-enacted Arizona “anti-revenge porn” law to ban sharing nude photos
without permission has come under fired by the media, rights groups, publishers
and librarians. The critics claim it is overbroad and would criminalize such
common exchanges of photos as those of babies or of women breast feeding
commonly used for educational purposes.
Here’s the
ACLU on this:
Here is the
ACLU legal complaint:
The
Satanic Lawsuit: Do Satanists have religious rights? [Santa Fe
Reporter, 9/24/14]: An
inmate at Western New Mexico Correctional Facility is suing the state for
allegedly infringing on his freedom to practice his religion. His religion?
Satanic worship.
N.J.
case puts pledge, religion in spotlight [Phil Inquirer, 9/24/14]: Blackwood teenager Samantha Jones
grew up reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with the words under God,
and she is willing to go to court for the right to keeping saying those words.
Teacher talked of killer
robot in class [SD Union-Trib,
9/24/14]: Oceanside Unified School District officials investigated complaints
that a teacher threatened to have a robot shoot and kill students, and the
educator was allowed to resign and receive a $92,000 settlement instead of
being fired.
Students before teachers: Why
progressives should defend 'Vergara v. California' ruling [Lawrence Tribe in USA Today,
9/24/14]: “My support for curtailing
teacher tenure and last-in, first-out layoff rules when they put the needs of
adults before children is not a departure from my progressive roots. Rather, it
is a natural and common-sense outgrowth.”
Scotland’s Vote to Stay in the UK Raises the Question
of When Other Groups Should Have the Chance to Secede [Justia, 9/24/14]:
Professor Dorf discusses the recent Scot vote to stay in the UK and
considers the broader question of when secession votes should be held, as a
matter of international and domestic law.
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