SCOTUS GOT ITS 15 MINUTES LAST NIGHT | How HRC and The Donald Answered the SCOTUS Question
October 10, 2016
FINALEMENT
|The United States Supreme Court got a supreme shout out in last night’s debate thanks to audience member, BETH MILLER, who asked the candidates, “What would you prioritize as the most important aspect of selecting a Supreme Court justice?”
HRC seemed to warm to JUDGE MERRICK GARLAND in her response when she called the Senate’s inaction on his nomination a “dereliction of duty.” DONALD TRUMP on the other hand said he’s looking to nominate judges “very much in the mold of JUSTICE SCALIA.” For the full transcript of last night’s debate, read here.
DEBACLE ON DEBATE NIGHT
|The night got fairly ugly, especially when DONALD TRUMP renewed calls to imprison HILLARY CLINTON. He said he plans to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate her use of a private email server, but in Bloomberg, Noah Feldman tells us why such a promise is “legally empty” and “genuinely dangerous.”
CLASH OF THE TITANS
|This week, Samsung and Apple star in the latest tech showdown before the Supreme Court, and it promises to be a biggie. Justices will hear oral arguments Tuesday on damages Samsung owes to Apple for alleged violation of patent designs.
FYI
|Apple won a separate patent fight with Samsung last week when a federal appeals court reinstated a $119.6 million jury verdict in favor of the iPhone-maker. Read Brent Kendall’s coverage in The Wall Street Journal.
ALSO TUESDAY
|Our SCOTUS justices will hear a case involving racial bias in the jury room. The case out of Colorado addresses claims that a juror’s ethnic slurs during deliberations were so offensive that they may have deprived the defendant of a fair trial.
TO RIGHT A WRONG, THEN WRONG IT AGAIN
|In The New York Times, Jacques Leslie considers the fight for voting rights taking place across state lines noting, “Supporters of stringent voter ID laws justify them with the claim that fraud is widespread, which isn’t true…Their perspective is crabbed and constricted where it ought to be expansive: Instead of championing voting rights, they see only voting wrongs.”
OTHER NEWS
By Denying Certiorari In O'Bannon v. NCAA, The Supreme Court Aids Future Reform to College Sports
Forbes“Although the direct ruling in O’Bannon may seem rather mundane, the underlying legal principle upheld in that case — that the NCAA is indeed subject to federal antitrust laws — may ultimately facilitate far greater reform to the college sports enterprise.”