ANOTHER VACANCY, ANOTHER MYSTERY | Could SCOTUS Save The Travel Ban?
May 12, 2017
TODAY IN HISTORY
|On this day, only one year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the execution of an Alabama inmate so that a lower court could review claims that strokes and dementia had rendered him incompetent to understand his looming death sentence.
PRICKLY PREDICTIONS
|Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY, says he’s not sure who it’s going to be, but he thinks we will get another Supreme Court vacancy this year. On C-SPAN yesterday, Grassley said he’s “just heard rumors, no name attached to it.”
BABY, DON'T SAVE ME
|Richard Wolf with USA Today considers whether the Supreme Court will step in and save PRESIDENT TRUMP’S travel ban. He writes that although nearly every judge who has heard the case thinks the ban discriminates against immigrants based on their religion, “The Supreme Court may be another story.”
OTHER NEWS
Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison Eid in Line for Neil Gorsuch's Seat on 10th Circuit
The Denver Post“Neil Gorsuch beat out fellow Coloradan Allison Eid for a spot on the U.S. Supreme Court, but Eid’s likely consolation prize isn’t so bad: Gorsuch’s still-warm seat on the powerful 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Denver. Several Republican operatives and other political insiders said they expect President Donald Trump to name Eid, now a justice on the Colorado Supreme Court, to the 10th Circuit.”
Trump's Justice Department Works Both Sides of the CFPB
The National Law Journal“The Trump administration’s U.S. Justice Department is both simultaneously challenging and backing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, creating a litigation whirlwind as Republicans and business advocates push reforms that would strip some power from the Obama-era federal agency.”
Convicted Coal Mine CEO is Taking His Case to the U.S. Supreme Court
NPR“Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is marking his release from federal custody with an appeal for vindication by the U.S. Supreme Court.”