The Federalist Society’s national website has an interesting online forum in which former OLC attorney and current Georgetown Law professor Marty Lederman, Columbia Law professor Michael Dorf, Moritz College of Law professor Peter Shane, Chuck Cooper of Cooper & Kirk, Yale Law professor Jack Balkin, and University of Chicago Law professor Richard Epstein debate the […]
The Washington Supreme Court yesterday held, by a vote of 6-3, that a Washington statute denying the vote to convicted felons who have not finished paying their fines did not violate the Equal Protection Clause. A state trial court had held that the statute unconstitutionally discriminated based on wealth. The Supreme Court relied heavily on […]
On July 14, 2007, many members of the Harvard Federalist Society, along with other Fed Soc student chapter members from around the country, enjoyed a relaxing summer party hosted by former Solicitor General Ted Olson and his wife Mrs. Lady Evelyn Olson at their beautiful home in Great Falls, Virginia.
I just got back from the DC Lawyers Fed Soc Chapter’s Annual Supreme Court Round Up with Ted Olson. As a former Solicitor General, consummate Washington insider, and renowned member of the elite Supreme Court bar, Olson never fails to entertain a crowd. So it was no surprise to find hundreds of Federalist Society members […]
On Tuesday night the University Club in Washington held its annual William Howard Taft Supreme Court Review, a panel discussion of the top cases of the Term featuring Miguel Estrada of Gibson Dunn, Prof. Michael Seidman, Nadine Strossen of the ACLU, and Prof. Ronald Rotunda. The conversation kept coming back to the Roberts Court’s respect […]
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A few days ago, Judge Batchelder wrote the lead opinion for a divided Sixth Circuit panel, holding that a collection of associations and individuals represented by the ACLU did not have standing to challenge the NSA’s terror surveillance program (“TSP”). As you have probably read before, the New York Times revealed that the President had […]
Welcome to The HLS Federalist Society Weblog. This site is just being set up, but in the near future it will be a source of information for Fed Soc announcements, events, links, and miscellany. — Jeff, Technology Chair