🤯There are a massive number of behind-the-scenes leaks from the Supreme Court in this piece and it’s apparently just the first entry in a four-part series.
My guess: Someone with intimate knowledge of the justices’ deliberations is mad at Roberts. cnn.com/2020/07/27/pol…
My guess: Someone with intimate knowledge of the justices’ deliberations is mad at Roberts. cnn.com/2020/07/27/pol…
Niche request: Academics who are troubled by internal SCOTUS leaks, by all means Do The Discourse about whether these leaks harm the institution, but please do not scold Supreme Court reporters for reporting on them; that is our job.
The second entry in @JoanBiskupic’s four-part series has more revelations: Kagan helped Gorsuch see the light on LGBTQ employment discrimination, and Roberts assigned Gorsuch the opinion from the start. The chief wasn’t a late crossover, as I’d suspected. cnn.com/2020/07/28/pol…
SCOTUS also considered ruling that the Civil Rights Act protects gay employees—but punting on the question of transgender employees. Eventually Gorsuch decided it protected both equally (perhaps with more coaxing from Kagan). cnn.com/2020/07/28/pol…
It also appears that the justices took several months to figure out who would write the majority opinion in Ramos, the unanimous juries case, given the badly splintered vote (3-1-1-1-3). Eventually Gorsuch landed that one, too. He had a good term! cnn.com/2020/07/28/pol…
Part 3: Kavanaugh tried to avoid deciding two big cases—about abortion and Trump’s financial records—but couldn’t get any justices to go along with him. Also, he desperately wants to project the image of a reasonable guy ... while mostly voting like Alito. cnn.com/2020/07/29/pol…
It’s pretty clear that the leaker(s) here view Kavanaugh as a statesman-type who tried to guide the court away from political minefields. But in truth, he seems more interested in *projecting that image* to the public by avoiding hard votes. cnn.com/2020/07/29/pol…
