For the media villagers who assume that they can predict conservative v. liberal 5-4 votes on the Supreme Court, today was one of those days that proves you wrong. There were some splits today that made for some strange bedfellows following that preconceived formula. The first opinion is a 5-4 decision that at first blush … 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
It’s June, and you know what that means: SCOTUS watch. According to Scotusblog’s “statistical snapshot”, there are still 31 cases to be decided before the end of the month. Six of these remaining cases have been designated “major cases” by SCOTUSblog – case summaries are by SCOTUSblog: Gamble v. United States, Issue: Whether the Supreme Court … Read more
Sometime in the next month, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule in Department of Commerce v. New York, the case in which the Trump administration sought to add a question about U.S. citizenship to the U.S. census. Oral argument before the court was in April. But new evidence has emerged at the eleventh hour that … Read more