This is a Court that believes in a strong president, but also a very weak Congress -- @vicnourse discussing the cases involving access to the president's records #SCOTUSReview
Read more about this in @vicnourse's blog in the ACS Expert Forum: "The Dark Side of Mazars—Should a New York Prosecutor Have More Power to Check the President than the House of Representatives?" acslaw.org/expertforum/th…#SCOTUSReview
After #SCOTUS decision in June Medical case, we're in terrain that favors incremental laws by states that seek to impose abortion restrictions -- @jadler1969#SCOTUSReview
After the Court's decision rejecting the Trump administration's rescission of DACA, the question -- which I’m surprised we’re even asking is -- whether the government is going to comply with the Court's decision -- @OmarJadwat#SCOTUSReview
On cases involving religious liberty, religious conservatives are winning and progressives and liberals are losing. We have a Court more solicitous of religious exemptions than any in our history -- @mjschwartzman#SCOTUSReview
Women and gender equality get lost in much of the analysis of the Little Sisters case -- @FGossGraves#SCOTUSReview
Looking ahead on the severability question and the future of the Affordable Care Act, there is another "frontal" challenge to the law on the docket. The plaintiffs have a hard case to make on the severability argument. -- @jadler1969#SCOTUSreview
ICYMI: “A More Perfect Union: The Future of Labor Law in a Post-COVID Economy” took place yesterday (1/7)
We need labor law reform. We need sector-wide solutions to address the multiple crises of the environment, the healthcare system, the economic crisis, said Nicole Berner of @SEIU (2/7)
Labor law has become an obstacle for workers to come together and countervail the power of corporations, said @sharblock (3/7)
In a new blog post on our expert forum, @MyConstitution’s David Gans explores California v. Texas, the latest attempt in the long-running effort by conservatives to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act bit.ly/3klf20x (1/5)
“Both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh—who together with the Court’s three more liberal Justices could form a majority—repeatedly stated that it would be inappropriate to strike down the statute as a whole.” (2/5)
Gans argues that while the Roberts Court is deeply conservative, for now it seems unwilling to upend settled legal principles to strike down the ACA. (3/5)
From our first issue brief by Kristina Silja Bennard back in 2005 (!) on the confirmation hearings of #RBG and answering questions while maintaining judicial impartiality (1/21)
Bennard: The hearings for #RBG in 1993 provide a good example of how a nominee balances her obligation of impartiality with the need to shed light on her fundamental views (3/21)
.@espinsegall in the ACS Expert Forum Blog: Judge Amy Coney Barrett stated during her confirmation hearings that she's an originalist, which is meaningless as it relates to interpretation, but suggests that she'll consistently cast conservative votes acslaw.org/expertforum/ju… (1/9)
There are conservative, moderate and liberal judges, but there are no originalist judges, Professor Segall argues (2/9)
In the 1970s and 80s, originalists like Robert Bork were opposed to judges overturning state & federal law absent a clear inconsistency with constitutional text (3/9)
ACS President @russfeingold released this statement as the Senate begins hearings for #SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett (1/8):
The illegitimate plan to seat another extremely conservative #SCOTUS justice will allow the Right to achieve their ultimate goal: locking down a supermajority that could last for a generation (2/8)
By doing so, the Right will effectively steal the future of the younger generation – and generations to come. This generation will not be able to forge its own way or make manifest the promises in our Constitution (3/8)