Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has already been confirmed three times for the federal judiciary by a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has more trial court experience than any sitting Supreme Court justice and more than any justice since Edward Sanford, who was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1923. Judge … Read more
Update to Trump Makes Desperate Appeal To U.S. Supreme Court To Block The National Archives From Producing Documents To The January 6 Committee. CNN reports, Supreme Court officially ends Trump’s recent legal fight to block document turnover to January 6 probe: The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it will not take up former President … Read more
In Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek in 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts have no jurisdiction to review partisan gerrymandering cases, greenlighting the extreme gerrymandering that we have seen since the 2020 Census. But the court noted that federal courts do have jurisdiction to review racial gerrymamdering cases. Supreme … Read more
A day late and a dollar short if you ask me. The arrogance Justice Breyer displayed in defending this dysfunctional Supreme Court last year while promoting his new book will not soon be forgotten. This should have occurred last summer. CNN reports, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire: Breyer could formally announce his retirement … Read more
Above image: h/t Slate. Jane Mayer in another lengthy, richly detailed investigative report at the New Yorker poses the question, Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court? (excerpts – I recommend you read the full report): President Joe Biden recently established a bipartisan commission to consider reforms to the Court, and members of … Read more