MCCONNELL’S NOT-SO-HUMBLE BRAG | Diabetes, Decisions And Math At The Supreme Court
April 6, 2018
I DON'T WANNA BRAG, BUT I'M THE BEST YOU EVER HAD
|Amber Phillips with The Washington Postreacts to SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL recently bragging that his bet on blocking MERRICK GARLAND from the Supreme Court was “the most consequential decision” of his career. She writes, “Whether you call it prescience or a good bet, it’s true that so far, everything McConnell hoped would happen after Scalia’s death did happen. And the success could keep paying off with the upcoming midterms by giving his party something to campaign on.”
ED BOARD OVERTURE
|“The Supreme Court continues to grant an unhealthy immunity to police accused of wrongdoing” – that’s the headline of a new piece from the Editorial Board of the Los Angeles Times on the Supreme Court’s decision this week to shield an Arizona police officer from being sued for killing a woman in her own front yard. LAT: “It was the latest, but almost certainly not the last, decision by the court to give the benefit of the doubt to law enforcement officials accused of abusing their authority. It’s time for the court to reconsider this and other legal doctrines that make it hard for victims of official misconduct to have their day in court. And if it doesn’t, Congress should act.”
THE GORSUCH LEGACY
|Yuvraf Joshi writes in Slate that JUSTICE GORSUCH has already left behind a legacy that paved the way for “a flood of hyperpartisan lower court judges.” Joshi remarks, “The confirmation of Gorsuch heralded a year of lower court nominees created in his image—predominantly white and male, relatively young, and often hostile to consumer, worker, health, and environmental protections, as well as gender, racial, and LGBTQ equality.”
DIABETES, DECISIONS AND MATH
|Last month during an argument, JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR’S continuous glucose monitor starting pinging to alert her that her blood sugar was urgently low. AP’s Jessica Gresko and Mark Sherman report that the sound of the device was the first public notice that she was using such a monitor. Read their full report from their Supreme Court Notebook in which they also cover SCOTUS math and tortoises! It all relates, I swear.