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Showing posts with label Supreme Court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supreme Court. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

From PBS: Supreme Court bats down challenge to new anti-doping rules for horse racing

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Republicans tend not to like regulations imposed on the states by the national government. Sometimes they are successful in using the courts...
Thursday, July 2, 2020

Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue

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From Oyez:  Question: Does a state law that allows for funding for education generally while prohibiting funding for religious schools viola...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

From the Texas Tribune: U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Texas death row inmate

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For our look at federalism and civil liberties in both 2305 and 2306. The case is Moore v Texas. - Click here for the article . The U.S...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

From the Washington Post: Supreme Court sends Virginia transgender case back to lower court

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More policy change due to the change in the White House. - Click here for the article . The Supreme Court on Monday vacated a lower cou...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

From the Washington Post: The Supreme Court will examine partisan gerrymandering in 2017. That could change the voting map.

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I mentioned this court case in a few classes, both 2305 and 2306. Partisan gerrymandering is still legal, more or less, but that may well ch...
Friday, January 27, 2017

From the U.S. Supreme Court: Lee v. Tam

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In the second GDHS class this morning we discussed another free speech case, Lee v. Tam. The case also touches on the copyright clause of th...

From the U.S. Supreme Court: Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman

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We briefly walked through this case in the first class at GDHS this morning. It involves the free speech clause of the First Amendment and p...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

On This Day in History (ok this was originally flagged November 18) 1883: Railroads create the first time zones

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This is from History.com and it touches on points I like to make in class about the interrelationship between business and the national gove...
Monday, November 14, 2016

From the NYT: Trump’s Supreme Court List: Ivy League? Out. The Heartland? In.

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All current members are from Harvard, Yale or Columbia. That seems likely to change. - Click here for the article . If the list has a mai...

From ABCNews: GOP President-Elect Donald Trump Says Same-Sex Marriage Is 'Settled' Law

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Obergerfells id safe, but - apparently - not Roe v Wade. Assuming Trump has influence over either of course. - Click here for the article ....
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

What happens to the Supreme Court after the election?

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Some - not all - Republican Senators promise to block all nomination to the court if Clinton wins. - ScotusBlog offers the following thought...

Guess who doesn't care that its election day?

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The Supreme Court. I might be making too much of this, but they always seem to argue cases on election day. I take it as a sign that they pr...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

From ScotusBlog: Gloucester County School Board v. G.G.

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The court has decided to take up the case involving the transgender student in Virginia, but will not concern itself with equal protection i...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

From the Washington Post: Supreme Court takes up school bathroom rules for transgender students

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This happened much quicker than I thought it would. - Click here for the article . The Supreme Court said Friday that it will decide whethe...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Argued today in the Supreme Court: Buck v Davis

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We discussed this briefly in 2305 today. Its - another - due process / death penalty / racial discrimination / ineffective counsel case fro...
Monday, October 3, 2016

From the Washington Post: Courts & Law Supreme Court declines to hear immigration and Redskins cases

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Sometimes the court makes a decision by choosing to not make a decision - and deferring to the lower courts. - Click here for the article . ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's October 2016 term starts today.

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A few links about what's on the docket, lot's on their being shorthanded. - Supreme Court to begin new term short-handed as its ideo...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

From Politifact: Donald Trump and Lester Holt clash over whether stop-and-frisk is constitutional in New York

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More detail regarding an issue brought up in Monday's debate. Turns out Trump and Holt are kinda right and kinda wrong. For 2305 this il...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

From NBC News: Supreme Court Has Reasons to Dodge Trans Bathroom Case

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The Supreme Court may - or may not - decide whether sexual identity is a protected category under the equal protection clause. - Click he...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

From the Texas Tribune: Texas Appeals Voter ID Rulings to U.S. Supreme Court

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For our look at federalism, as well as voting rights. - Click here for the article . Texas wants to take its voter identification battle to...