Gorsuch, speaking to students on Constitution Day, honors Ginsburg Justice Neil Gorsuch praised Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s four decades of service as a judge, telling schoolchildren across America on Thursday to “think about the sacrifices she’s made on our behalf. We owe her a very great deal.” Gorsuch’s comments came during a “Virtual Student Town Hall” hosted by the National Constitution Center. The event, streamed by classrooms in schools around the country, was part of a long line of festivities by the center to celebrate Constitution Day. The day’s events will conclude with a musical performance to commemorate Ginsburg’s receipt of the center’s 32nd annual Liberty Medal. Continue reading »

Breyer’s Constitution Day message: Participate Justice Stephen Breyer kicked off Constitution Day on Thursday morning by urging law students to fulfill the Constitution’s promise through civic participation. Breyer sat down with George Washington University Law School students via Facebook Live in a discussion moderated by GW Law Dean Dayna Bowen Matthew and Associate Dean Alan Morrison. Just one day after the Supreme Court announced it would hold October oral arguments remotely, Breyer said that a “plus” of the new system is that it encourages everyone to listen more closely. The “minus” of the new way of doings things, he said, is that the justices do not get the opportunity to have much dialogue — a predictable downside for the justice known for multi-part questions that often invite a back-and-forth with advocates. Continue reading »

Event announcement: ACS Supreme Court Preview On Thursday, Sept. 24, at 12:30 p.m. EDT, the American Constitution Society will host a virtual preview of major cases set for argument during the 2020-21 Supreme Court term, including a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, a dispute over whether religious organizations should be exempt from a city’s nondiscrimination policy, and the House’s efforts to obtain secret grand-jury materials from the Mueller report. After a welcome from ACS President Russ Feingold, Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Globe will moderate a discussion among law professors Katherine Franke of Columbia and Abbe Gluck of Yale, as well as practitioners Elbert Lin of Hunton Andrews Kurth, Jeannie Rhee of Paul Weiss and the Campaign Legal Center’s Paul Smith. Click here for more info and to register.

Thursday round-up The Supreme Court on Wednesday released two pieces of new information about oral arguments for its upcoming 2020-21 term. The court said that, due to the coronavirus pandemic, it will hear arguments by telephone at least through its October sitting while releasing an audio livestream, as it did in May. The court also released its argument calendar for its December sitting (the court’s October and November argument calendars were released previously). Amy Howe (in stories that first appeared at Howe on the Court) covers both the announcement about telephone arguments and the December argument calendar. Continue reading »

Justices release December calendar The Supreme Court on Wednesday released the calendar for the December argument session, which will include the clash between the Department of Justice and the House Judiciary Committee over the committee’s efforts to obtain secret materials from the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Over six days between Nov. 30 and Dec. 9, the court will hear 10 hours of oral argument in 12 cases. The justices will hear Department of Justice v. House Committee on the Judiciary on Dec. 2; one week later, they will hear oral argument in a high-stakes dispute arising out of the government’s rescue of mortgage-finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after the 2008 financial crisis. The cases scheduled for argument during the December session are below the jump: Continue reading »

Justices to hear October arguments by phone The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it will start its new term in October by hearing oral arguments the same way that it did at the end of its previous term: remotely, with the justices and lawyers participating by telephone as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Members of the public will once again be able to listen to oral arguments live, through a feed provided by the court to the media and then made available by the media to the public. The announcement by the court’s Public Information Office came less than three weeks before the court’s October argument session is scheduled to begin. All of the cases slated for oral argument were originally on the court’s calendar in March or April of this year, but the justices canceled arguments in those months because of the pandemic. The justices then rescheduled some of the March and April cases for May, hearing oral arguments by telephone and providing live audio for the first time, but they pushed the remaining 10 cases back to the fall. Continue reading »

Wednesday round-up Briefly: On a new episode of the Strict Scrutiny podcast, Leah Litman and Melissa Murray interview Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson about their new book, Shortlisted: Women In The Shadows Of The Supreme Court.

On a new episode of the Legal Docket podcast, Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough examine Kansas v. Glover, a 2019 case in which the court held that, when a police officer lacks information negating an inference that a person driving is the vehicle’s owner, an investigative traffic stop made after running the vehicle’s license plate and learning that the registered owner’s driver’s license has been revoked is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment case.

In the George Washington Law Review’s online companion, Arguendo, Justin Aimonetti and Christian Talley analyze a circuit split over whether plaintiffs have standing to sue under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act based on the receipt of unsolicited “robotexts.” They argue that the Supreme Court should grant cert to resolve the issue. We rely on our readers to send us links for our round-up. If you have or know of a recent (published in the last two or three days) article, post, podcast or op-ed relating to the Supreme Court that you’d like us to consider for inclusion, please send it to roundup@scotusblog.com. Thank you!

SCOTUStalk heads to the ballot box: The Supreme Court and the 2020 election Ever since Bush v. Gore, the case that effectively decided the 2000 presidential race, the Supreme Court increasingly has been asked to intervene in fraught disputes over election procedures. Add in a pandemic, and the 2020 election season promises to be unprecedented. This week on SCOTUStalk, SCOTUSblog’s social media editor, Katie Barlow, joins Amy Howe to break down the court’s influence on the election. They survey major election-related rulings the justices have already handed down this summer and preview what role the court might play in the run-up to Election Day – and, potentially, the weeks afterward. Katie and Amy also discuss the launch of an exciting new project between SCOTUSblog and Election Law at Ohio State: the 2020 Election Litigation Tracker. Listen on Acast | Spotify Full transcript below the jump. Continue reading »

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