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Census
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Adam Liptak
NEW: @ACLU asks the Supreme Court to send census case back to trial court to assess new evidence.
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Ginsburg Hints at Sharp Divisions Ahead as Supreme Court Term Nears End
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in remarks at a conference that included references to the census and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, gave liberals little reason to be optimistic.
2019 Second Circuit Judicial Conference Remarks June 7 2019
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Adam Liptak
Link to Justice Ginsburg’s prepared remarks today at Second Circuit Judicial Conference
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Trump Wins Ruling in House’s Border Wall Suit
A federal judge ruled that the House did not have standing to sue the Trump administration to stop construction of the border wall.
At the Supreme Court, Justice Thomas Scoffs at Retirement Rumors
In a relaxed public interview, Justice Clarence Thomas reflected on his career and work at the Supreme Court.
Deceased G.O.P. Strategist’s Hard Drives Reveal New Details on the Census Citizenship Question
Weeks before the Supreme Court rules on the legality of the citizenship question, evidence filed in court could further erode the Trump administration’s rationale for the question.
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Adam Liptak
A trove of new documents undercuts the Trump administration’s version of events in the Supreme Court case on adding a citizenship question to the census, from @miwine
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Supreme Court Sidesteps Abortion Question in Ruling on Indiana Law
The justices upheld a law on the disposal of fetal remains, but declined to hear a case on whether states can prohibit abortions sought solely based on a fetal characteristic like sex or disability.
Fearing Supreme Court Loss, New York Tries to Make Gun Case Vanish
The case, a challenge to a New York City gun regulation, is the first Second Amendment case at the Supreme Court in almost a decade.
Accused of ‘Terrorism’ for Putting Legal Materials Online
After Carl Malamud posted Georgia’s annotated laws, the state sued for copyright infringement. Both sides have asked the Supreme Court to step in.
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Adam Liptak
Who owns the law? Both sides in a copyright case have asked the Supreme Court to decide whether Georgia can stop a transparency group from posting the state's official annotated code.
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Trump’s Justices, With Much in Common, Take Different Paths
Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were expected to a be jurisprudential twins. In both style and substance, they have embraced different approaches.
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Adam Liptak
President Trump’s two Supreme Court appointees — Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh — have a lot in common. But they have different styles and methods, and they have been on opposite sides in more than a few cases.
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Conservatives, Often Wary of Foreign Law, Embrace It in Census Case
Many major democracies ask about citizenship in their censuses. Should that matter to the Supreme Court?
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Adam Liptak
The globalist Supreme Court: At last week’s census arguments, a new interest from the right in foreign law.
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American Constitution Society Presents: Adam Liptak | University of Chicago Law School
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Adam Liptak
Thursday @UChicagoLaw: Geoffrey Stone and I will chat about the Supreme Court and the First Amendment
law.uchicago.edu/events/america… @stone_geoffrey
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Limiting Agency Power, a Goal of the Right, Gets Supreme Court Test
Justice Stephen G. Breyer said, half-joking, that he feared “the greatest judicial power grab since Marbury v. Madison” as the justices took on an issue they saw as momentous.
Lawsuit accusing Trump of violating Constitution gets hostile reception
The arguments in the so-called foreign emoluments case test largely uncharted areas of constitutional law.
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Adam Liptak
On learning which judges would be on the panel for today's Fourth Circuit emoluments case, Maryland’s attorney general slapped his forehead in dismay, per @joshgerstein
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Hip-Hop Artists Give the Supreme Court a Primer on Rap Music
The stars, including Chance the Rapper and Meek Mill, urged the court to hear the First Amendment case of a rapper imprisoned for threatening police officers in a song.
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Adam Liptak
Supreme Court denies review in First Amendment case championed by hip hop stars
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Hip-hop stars including Chance the Rapper, Meek Mill, Killer Mike and 21 Savage are urging the Supreme Court to hear the case of a Pittsburgh rapper sent to prison for threatening police officers -- in a song
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.@KillerMike on racial profiling in the judicial treatment of rap music:
nytimes.com/2019/03/06/us/… pic.twitter.com/dMkbw5eTvu
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Precedent, Meet Clarence Thomas. You May Not Get Along.
Justice Thomas has written more than 250 opinions scrutinizing precedents, calling for their reconsideration or suggesting that they be overruled.
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Adam Liptak
In three opinions over eight days last month, Justice Thomas questioned New York Times v. Sullivan, Roe v. Wade and Gideon v. Wainwright.
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Justice Clarence Thomas Calls for Reconsideration of Landmark Libel Ruling
The Supreme Court’s 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, Justice Thomas wrote, was not rooted in the text and history of the Constitution.
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Adam Liptak
Justice Thomas wants to overrule New York Times v. Sullivan, calling it “a policy-driven decision masquerading as constitutional law."
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When Does Kicking Black People Off Juries Cross a Constitutional Line?
The Supreme Court will consider whether a Mississippi prosecutor’s long record of excluding black jurors amounted to unconstitutional race discrimination.
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Adam Liptak
Clarence Thomas asked his first questions in three years in a case on race discrimination in jury selection
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Today at the Supreme Court: The case of Curtis Flowers, a black man tried six times for murder by a white prosecutor determined to keep blacks off of his juries.
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Thirty years ago, a Yale law student named Brett Kavanaugh called for vigorous efforts to combat race discrimination in jury selection. Next month, the Supreme Court will take up the issue in the Curtis Flowers case.
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Ray 18A815 State Application to Vacate Stay
Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Adam Liptak (The New York Times).
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Adam Liptak
Alabama asks the Supreme Court to allow the execution to proceed without the Muslim inmate’s imam
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