CASES WORTH WATCHING STARTING NEXT WEEK | DIE DEATH PENALTY DIE | Trump’s Great Reshaping
January 3, 2018
LUCKY 7
|Marcia Coyle with The National Law Journal previews seven cases worth watching at the Supreme Court’s first conference of 2018 which will take place this Friday. The justices will weigh issues spanning from the lawfulness of the SEC’s administrative law judges to Arizona’s death penalty.
KEEPING IT REAL
|The staff over at Constitution Daily takes a look ahead to some big cases coming down the pike in 2018. They preview for us the arguments we’ll see (if you’re lucky), hear (not day of, of course) and more likely read about starting next week.
A QUICK DEATH
|The Editorial Board of The New York Times thinks it’s time for the death penalty to face a quick death once and for all. The Supreme Court will consider whether it should hear a case that could strike down the death penalty for violating the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. NYT: “Whether the justices take that or another case, the facts they face will be the same: The death penalty is a savage, racially biased, arbitrary and pointless punishment that becomes rarer and more geographically isolated with every year.”
THE GREAT RESHAPING
|As of yesterday, there are 148 judicial vacancies on the federal bench. DONALD TRUMP stands to remake the federal judiciary on a scale not seen in decades, and in some ways, he already has. Cogan Schneier with The National Law Journal reports.