TED OLSEN TO REPRESENT DREAMERS | Justices Dive Into The Deep End On Day 2 | Sotomayor Shows Off Her Supreme Pitch
September 27, 2019
AN UNLIKELY ALLY
|Former solicitor general and longtime conservative, TED OLSEN, will represent the “Dreamers” in an upcoming Supreme Court case. He’ll be going up against lawyers from the Trump administration in the case regarding PRESIDENT TRUMP’S attempts to shut down DACA. Olsen said yesterday, “We’re going to have to win over some conservative members of the court, and so someone who has a background in separation of powers, executive power, on the conservative side of the political spectrum might help.”
LOCKED AND LOADED
|Ian Millhiser with Vox provides us with an explainer on one of the biggest gun cases to reach the Supreme Court in nearly a decade. He writes, “The case centers on an unusual — and recently changed — New York City rule that limited where gun owners with a certain kind of permit were allowed to bring their guns. Gun control advocates, including policymakers in both New York City and the New York state legislature, fear a big loss in the Supreme Court and are desperate to make the case go away.” Next week, justices will decide whether to dismiss the case.
HEATING UP
|Steven Mazie for The Economist previews the upcoming SCOTUS term which is expected to include cases pertaining to a number of hot button issues — and the high court is wasting no time diving right into the deep end. “Discrimination against gay and transgender people is on the docket on the justices’ second day back. The question is whether the bar on discrimination ‘because of sex’ in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prevents an employer from disadvantaging employees on the basis of their gender identity or sexual orientation. Fewer than half the states have laws against sacking workers because they are gay or trans. Now the Supreme Court will decide if the federal civil-rights umbrella protects some 8.1m LGBT workers across America.”
ON THE BASIS OF SEX
|In USA Today, Anita Y. Milanovich also discusses the upcoming case that considers whether the meaning of the word “sex” in employment law covers sexual identity. Milanovich points out, “While its outcome obviously matters for the people immediately involved, the Supreme Court’s ruling on the meaning of the word ‘sex’ has direct and profound implications for other parts of federal law. It matters for the millions of girls and women affected by analogous laws such as those that ensure equal opportunities for education and athletic opportunities ‘on the basis of sex.'”
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME
|Watch footage of Supreme Court JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR throw out the first pitch for the Nationals before they went up against their rival, the Philadelphia Phillies. [NBC Sports]