By Renee Gerber I know, I know.  Posting twice in two days — where am I finding the time given that I have papers and finals just like everyone else?  Ah, the power of procrastination. I haven’t yet had a chance to talk to anyone about this case that was granted cert last week.  In […]

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 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 […]

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 […]