SINGING CAROLS AT SCOTUS | Books for the SCOTUS Devotee In Your Life
December 22, 2016
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS
|Lyle Denniston for Constitution Daily writes DONALD TRUMP has an early constitutional assignment to take care of once he’s in office. The new administration will have to take its first position on a constitutional issue before SCOTUS in which the court is deciding a case on prolonged detention of immigrants. “Given the president-elect’s controversial statements during the election campaign about how to treat immigrants, it is ironic that his legal team must take on this task in its first dealings with the Supreme Court.”
TOP-ED
|In the Los Angeles Times, Gabriel Chin calls the Supreme Court’s Korematsu ruling — which has never been overruled — a “loaded weapon” for discrimination. Chin notes, “Conservative justices have continued to cite Korematsu in support of racial bias as well. JUSTICES CLARENCE THOMAS and ANTONIN SCALIA, for example, cited it in affirmative action cases to illustrate permissible racial discrimination. And the idea behind it, that Americans of Asian Pacific ancestry are somehow not fully American, also persists.”
TAKE A RIDE ON THE READING
|Tony Mauro with The National Law Journal shares his list of seven books befitting the “SCOTUS devotee in your life.” He looks to notable works published in 2016, and some that are set to come out in 2017.
DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR
|“Their clerkships span nearly two decades and hundreds of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, but they share one overriding memory of Christmas in the nation’s high court—the annual carol sing-along led by CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM REHNQUIST and later by JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA.” Marcia Coyle with The National Law Journal reports.
OTHER NEWS
This Judge Lost His Job For Defying the Law. Now He May Become a Senator.
The Huffington PostBad Boy Roy Moore, the suspended chief justice of the Alabama state supreme court, is apparently on the governor’s shortlist to fill Jeff Sessions’ seat in the United States Senate.
The long and complicated road to understanding Jeff Sessions and matters of race
Los Angeles Times“Jeff Sessions’ uneasy history with race can be traced back to the long, winding roads that cut through the pine forests and farmland in this deep corner of the Deep South.”