WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT?!
September 28, 2016
TODAY IN HISTORY
|Five years ago today the Obama administration formally appealed a federal appeals court ruling striking down a key provision of PRESIDENT OBAMA’S health care law requiring Americans to buy health insurance or pay a penalty.
TOP ED
|For Bloomberg, Noah Feldman considers why no one is talking about the Supreme Court. He says we can expect the candidates to keep mum on SCOTUS while they duke it out for the White House. But come November, the “Supreme Court will return to the front pages very quickly indeed.”
WHY IT MATTERS
|The latest installment of AP’s series on why the presidential election matters focuses on the issue of guns in America. “The next president will get to nominate at least one member of a Supreme Court that’s closely divided on how to read the Second Amendment, and the next Congress will continue to confront gun-rights issues.”
THE RUNDOWN
|“The nation’s second-most powerful court grappled Tuesday with the intractable and potentially catastrophic problem of climate change, weighing whether constitutional questions surrounding PRESIDENT OBAMA’S climate change regulations should trump the moral obligations of upholding a plan to curb global warming.” Coral Davenport for The New York Times reports on the CPP’s day in court yesterday.
HOW LOW CAN YOU GO
|Bloomberg’s Greg Stohr reports on the longest, most impressive game of limbo we’ve seen in American politics. The Supreme Court, of course, is our star competitor. And though SCOTUS is in the holding pattern of its lifetime, when the next president takes office, the high court is in for an awakening like no other with an imminent and historic transformation regardless of who wins.
THROWING SHADE
|In The Washington Post, Orin Kerr responds to Adam Liptak’s recent piece on a study measuring the ideologies of possible nominees for the Supreme Court. Kerr: “After eyeballing the results, though, they struck me as a bit off…The authors of the study are all prominent empiricists, and perhaps I just misunderstand the study. If the authors think I am missing the point, I’d be happy to print a response for them.”
BY THE NUMBERS
|Bloomberg’s Kimberly Robinson takes a look at OT16 by the numbers. Be sure and mark your calendars people — the new SCOTUS term goes live October 3.
CHANGE AGENTS WEAR ROBES
|Which candidates this fall could have the biggest effect on LGBT rights? The judges. Or so says Eric Lesh and Rachel Tiven in The Washington Post this morning.
OTHER NEWS
In same-sex marriage fight, Alabama chief justice could be removed from office -- again
Los Angeles TimesFor the second time in 13 years, Alabama Chief Justice and Bad Boy Roy Moore, stands trial today on charges of violating the canons of judicial ethics. If found guilty, he could be ousted from the bench for the second time in his career. Talk about a twofer.
Supreme Court declines financier's bid to block SEC action
ReutersYesterday SCOTUS rejected a request by Lynn Tilton, the NY financier accused by the SEC of defrauding investors, to hold an SEC enforcement action as she challenge’s the agency’s judicial proceeding against her.