Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will continue with the TV broadcast of the “live” audio portions of its hearings, with an eight-Justice Court.  The first case audio will be broadcast on C-SPAN1, one of its three TV networks.  Both hearings can also be heard on C-SPAN’s website at http://c-span.org by clicking on the words SUPREME COURT… Read More

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will continue with the broadcast of the “live” audio portion of its hearings, with an eight-Justice Court. It is unclear whether it will be broadcast on any TV station. An audio broadcast is expected on the Supreme Court page of C-SPAN LIVE at this link: https://www.c-span.org/supremeCourt/ Both of the hearings held… Read More

The Supreme Court’s summer recess is now over, and a new term is starting. For the hearings this week, only eight Justices will participate since a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has not yet been approved by the Senate.  If nominee Amy Coney Barrett joins the Court later, she would have the option of… Read More

This is the second of two parts discussing the possible scenario this year of some state legislatures deciding to choose presidential electors, instead of leaving that to the voters.  The first part, appearing here yesterday, described the scenario and how it might play out.  This part describes how it might be challenged, in court or… Read More

This is the first of two parts.  It describes the possible scenario this year of some of the state legislatures deciding for themselves who will be their electors choosing the President, rather than leaving the choice to the states’ voters at the ballot box on November 3.  Part II, appearing tomorrow, will spell out possible… Read More

In the hours after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Thursday evening from her latest bout with cancer, it became clear that politics over the Court’s future will not be suspended, even briefly, for the nation to mourn the loss of perhaps the most consequential woman in America’s history. The Republican leader of the… Read More

After a sweeping 18-month investigation, New York State asked a state court on Thursday to  dissolve the National Rifle Association and distribute its assets to charity.  State Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit accused four present or former leaders of the nation’s leading gun rights organization of decades of funneling “millions into their own pockets.” It… Read More

A federal trial judge in New York City, assigned to rule on President Trump’s power to block the counting of undocumented immigrants in dividing up House of Representatives seats next year, moved on Tuesday to speed up his handling of the case. In a three-page order, issued one day after the case landed on his… Read More

President Trump, apparently contradicting two specific mandates in the Constitution, today banned the counting of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. when seats in the House of Representatives are divided up next year, following the 2020 census. In an executive order that civil rights groups immediately vowed to challenge in court, Trump claimed that it… Read More

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by House of Representatives committees to put into effect immediately the Court’s new ruling allowing the panels to demand access to President Trump’s private financial records. The effect will be to slow down by about two weeks the committees’ move to start a process in a lower… Read More