LINDA GREENHOUSE ON THE CHIEF JUSTICE’S BIG WORRY | A Dirt Farmer Pleas To SCOTUS | A Look At Democrats’ Top SCOTUS Pick
October 26, 2017
TOP-ED
|“I’d like to take seriously the chief justice’s evident worry about the Supreme Court’s legitimacy and play it out a bit.” That’s Linda Greenhouse with The New York Times weighing in on the question of how the primary concern of CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS—protecting the reputation and legitimacy of the high court—translates this term and in the years to come.
GIVE ME THE DIRT
|“Some residents in bayou country deep in southeastern Louisiana raise alligators or crawfish. Some grow turnips. Until a local government stepped in, Chad Jarreau farmed dirt. To be more precise, he dug up dirt on his property in Cut Off, Louisiana, graded it again and again and sold it for use in construction projects.” And now, that Louisiana dirt farmer needs the Supreme Court’s help. Mark Sherman with The Assoiciated Press has the story.
A STAR RISES
|Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern has his eye on JUDGE PATRICIA MILLETT who he says just performed “the judicial equivalent of a triple axel.” She sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and her dissent was what led to the full D.C. Circuit to allow a “vulnerable young woman’s right to bodily autonomy.” All things considered, MJS thinks Judge Millett should be at the very top of Democrats’ Supreme Court shortlist.
HBD HARVARD
|Several Supreme Court justices will help celebrate the bicentennial of Harvard Law School. CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS will be joined by JUSTICES ANTHONY KENNEDY, STEPHEN BREYER, ELENA KAGAN, NEIL GORSUCH and retired JUSTICE DAVID SOUTER at today’s event on campus. They are all Harvard Law School alumni.