I’m going to take today’s decisions out of order, and review them by relevance instead. As I expected, the two partisan gerrymandering cases (Lamone v. Benisek and Rucho v. Common Cause) were combined together into a single opinion. The court has for years avoided addressing the issue of partisan gerrymandering, with former Justice Kennedy suggesting that … Read more
The Chief Justice Roberts Supreme Court has demonstrated over the years a penchant for the reality TV show cliffhanger: build up the tension and suspense, and then tell viewers “tune in for the next episode” to find out what happens. This is what happened again today, with the court leaving its most controversial cases to … Read more
If the U.S. Supreme Court issues a decision in Department of Commerce v. New York, the challenge to the Trump administration’s decision to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census, it should be considered a gross act of legal malpractice — and pure partisan politics. The court has been kept apprised of recent developments … Read more
The House Oversight Committee voted on Wednesday to hold Attorney General William “Coverup” Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for failing to turn over documents about the administration’s decision to a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. House panel votes to hold attorney general, commerce secretary in contempt over census probe, the next … Read more
Update to Newly discovered evidence that witnesses misled the court in U.S. Census case. District Court Judge Jesse Furman held a hearing for sanctions on Wednesday, but decided not to take any action ahead of the pending Supreme Court decision in this case. Buzzfeed News reports, A Judge Is Alarmed By The “Serious” New Claims … Read more