by jpitney | Apr 17, 2021 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Supreme Court
Colin Kalmbacher at Law and Crime: Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch appeared together during a Zoom presentation in which they both argued that civility in politics is a national security issue. Hosted by the Center for Strategic and...
by jpitney | Sep 21, 2020 | Civility, Supreme Court
At Fox, Christopher Scalia recalls his father’s friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday. Judge Jeffrey Sutton, one of my father’s former clerks, tells a story about visiting my father at the Supreme Court on what happened to be Justice...
by jpitney | Jul 13, 2020 | Electoral College, Supreme Court
Syllabus: CHIAFALO ET AL. v. WASHINGTON 591 U. S. ____ (2020) No. 19–465. Argued May 13, 2020—Decided July 6, 2020 Held: A State may enforce an elector’s pledge to support his party’s nominee—and the state voters’ choice—for President. Pp. 8–18. (a) Article II, §1...
by jpitney | Mar 5, 2020 | Civility, Senate, Supreme Court
Justice Roberts’s statement on Wednesday: This morning, Senator Schumer spoke at a rally in front of the Supreme Court while a case was being argued inside. Senator Schumer referred to two Members of the Court by name and said he wantedto tell them that...
