NOT SO CRYSTAL CLEAR ON SOLICITOR GENERAL’S COMMENT | RBG Hits Theaters Across The Country | HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND!
May 11, 2018
IT'S A MYSTERY TO ME
|In their Supreme Court notebook, AP’s Jessica Gresko and Mark Sherman declare that spring is the season of mystery at SCOTUS. This year though, we’re not just wondering what will come of the big decisions the justices have yet to render, we’re also left in the lurch as to whether a justice might be retiring. Read their thoughts on a pending appeal over a pregnant teen-aged immigrant who wanted an abortion, the solicitor general’s confusing arguments in defense of the travel ban, and JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER’S chatty ways.
NO TAKE-BACKS
|For The Economist, Steven Mazie wonders when exactly did DONALD TRUMP make it “crystal clear” that the travel ban is not a Muslim ban? During SOLICITOR GENERAL NOEL FRANCISCO’S closing comments at the travel ban oral argument, he asserted that indeed the president “made crystal clear…that he had no intention of imposing the Muslim ban.” Mazie digs into the validity of the comment and how it stacks up against the rest of Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric.
HERE AT LAST
|“Just in time for Mother’s Day, the much-awaited RBG documentary will be showing at 150 theaters around the country this weekend, a number that will double a week later.” That’s Tony Mauro with The National Law Journal making a strong case for all of us to go see RBG this weekend. He writes, “This is a very accessible movie about the human and professional sides of an increasingly larger-than-life judicial icon, now 85. It gives equal attention to her childhood, her family life, her law school days, her groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in the 1970s, her rock-star popularity and her time as a judge on the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. For millennials, Ginsburg’s struggle in a suffocating male-dominated legal world will bring home the gender discrimination she and other women experienced. And the movie details, without getting tedious, how Ginsburg as an ACLU lawyer carefully charted the strategy to break down that discrimination. Her central role in the legal battle for equality comes through vividly, and not everyone knows how important she was well before joining the high court.”
SPEAKING OF
|Wishing a happy weekend to all the mamas, moms, mothers out there who deserve all the love and appreciation in the world. Happy Mother’s Day!