MAKING A LIST, ADDING TO IT TWICE | Map of Justices’ Summer 2016 Travel | Drop and Give Me 20, RBG
September 23, 2016
COUGH FOR ME PLEASE
|In the midst of controversy surrounding the health of our presidential candidates, is there anyone asking about the health of our Supreme Court justices? TONY MAURO is, and he’s asking all the right questions. He also shared a piece that captures what is publicly known right now about the health of our justices.
THEY DON'T WANT ME TO HAVE ANOTHER SHORTLIST
|So Trump gave us another shortlist. Republican candidate for president DONALD TRUMP is set to release an expanded list of people he would consider naming to the Supreme Court today. On it, are names such as SENATOR MIKE LEE, Florida Supreme Court JUSTICE CHARLES CANADY, and several other conservative options. This is a list of ten, adding to the eleven names he released earlier this year. After racking up that many names, can we still call it a shortlist?
AWWW NOT AGAIN
|Yep, SENATOR MIKE LEE is the latest installment of persons who, after being put on DONALD TRUMP‘s SCOTUS shortlist, has asked to be promptly removed. The Senator’s spokesman noted, “Sen Lee already has the job he wants which is why he is campaigning to represent the great people of Utah again this year.”
HOLD ONTO YOUR HATS BOYS
|Jennifer Rubin packs a punch in her most recent piece in The Washington Post in which she addresses DONALD TRUMP‘s growing wish list of Supreme Court nominees, and the people who support his candidacy. “Let’s get real here. Pro-Trump leaders of conservative groups (including evangelicals) and conservative pundits using the Supreme Court to justify their support for a candidate entirely ignorant of and dismissive of legal restraints are kidding themselves and misleading others…Should they be ashamed? By their support for Trump they’ve demonstrated they are beyond shame — and reason.”
GAVE HIM THE OLE STONEWALL
|“An investigative reporter tried to catch JUSTICE ANTHONY KENNEDY by surprise with a question about a controversial Supreme Court decision the justice wrote. It didn’t go particularly well.” Cristian Farias with The Huffington Post reports.
ON DECK
|For Constitution Daily, Scott Bomboy gives us some hints at what’s to come in the case of Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Pauley. The case will ask the justices to consider “whether religiously affiliated schools can be constitutionally denied equal access to a government benefit, even if the benefit has nothing to do directly with matters of faith.”
ALL OVER THE WORLD BABY
|The justices had a travel-packed summer, with visits to all corners of the Eastern Seaboard, to Europe and even to Asia. Victoria Kwan reviews SCOUTSblog’s map of the justices’ Summer 2016 travel.
A LITTLE LADY POWER
|At the annual Women, Influence & Power in Law conference, ANITA HILL was in attendance to speak on the ROGER AILES sexual harassment accusations and Title IX.
MORE THAN I CAN DO
|Speaking at the Temple Emanu-El Skirball in New York City Wednesday, the NOTORIOUS RBG admitted that she does 20 push-ups every day, as well as 30-second planks. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 83 years old.
OTHER NEWS
An Expert Explains What Would Happen If Voter Fraud Decided the US Election
VICE“What if an American presidential election were decided not by the voters but by a criminal act? How would the country’s institutions respond, and would there be any way to overturn the results?”
Are judges for sale? The Supreme Court could decide in pending corruption case.
ThinkProgress“The eight Supreme Court justices will return from their summer vacations Monday to consider a backlog of petitions asking the Court to review a pile of cases. One of these cases, Chisholm v. Two Unnamed Petitioners, asks whether conservative justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court violated the Constitution by failing to recuse from a criminal investigation targeting groups that spent millions of dollars to get them elected.”
Can insider trading case at SCOTUS help Leon Cooperman?
ReutersAllison Frankel shares her theory of how Cooperman’s lawyers can take advantage of the insider trading case currently before the Supreme Court.
Kentucky Supreme Court blocks governor's college funding cuts
Reuters“Kentucky’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the state’s Republican governor does not have the authority to cut public universities’ budgets. The 5-2 decision reinstates more than $18 million in funds to eight of Kentucky’s nine public universities.”