SCOTUS ON THE DEBATE STAGE | Colin K Isn’t Mad, He’s Disappointed
October 13, 2016
TODAY IN HISTORY
|On this day in 1932, PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER and CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES EVANS HUGHES laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.
ROUND 3
|Ding, ding ding! We have a winner and it comes to us in the third round of presidential debates. The bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates announced yesterday that the topics for next Wednesday’s debate will include the following: debt entitlements, immigration, economy, foreign hot spots, fitness to be President, and best of all, THE SUPREME COURT.
TOP-ED
|In The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse says the notion of legislating from the bench has never been anything more than a political slogan. And now, it carries a painful irony as no one seems to be legislating at all.
MAD FOR MOULA
|In its latest “Why it Matters” piece on the presidential election, The Associated Press focuses on the issue of money in politics. AP reviews where each candidate stands on the issue in the face of growing resentment from the American people.
SMALL POTATOES
|For Constitution Daily, Lyle Denniston takes a look at a case that could provide one of the “most consequential decisions of modern times on the structure of the federal government.” I guess it’s no biggie.
SPEAKING OF BIGGIE -- RBG NOT SO NOTORIOUS
|Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern is here to quiet all the Notorious RBG lib-fangirls. He writes, “For RUTH BADER GINSBURG’S many liberal fans, the Supreme Court justice has long been an icon of progressive grit, a happy warrior battling racism, sexism, and homophobia…But Ginsburg’s popular image as a totem of tough, pure progressivism might have just been shattered.” Why? Because apparently COLIN KAEPERNICK is really dumb.
I'M NOT MAD, I'M DISAPPOINTED
|The San Francisco 49ers quarterback, COLIN KAEPERNICK, responded to RBG’s comments this week telling reporters in the locker room, “It is disappointing to hear a Supreme Court justice call a protest against injustices and oppression ‘stupid, dumb.'” Now that’s what I call locker room talk.
IMPATIENTLY PATIENT
|The Notorious RBG was given that name for a reason, and she continues to prove herself worthy of it. This week in her interview with Charlie Rose, she makes perfectly clear that having an empty seat on the bench is entirely unacceptable to her, suggesting that the Senate could hold hearings for JUDGE MERRICK GARLAND during the lame-duck session later this Fall.
THE BLACK BOX
|Bloomberg Law’s Nicholas Datlowe delivers a piece tailor-made for any law student in a civil procedure class contemplating jury room secrecy. Cracking open the black box, Datlowe shares a comprehensive view of this week’s arguments in the case of Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado.
OTHER NEWS
Supreme Court to hear racial gerrymandering case
Constitution Daily“Race and politics will once again intersect at the Supreme Court when the Justices hear McCrory v. Harris and Bethune Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections.”