“The Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearings Show Marriage Equality Is the Next Target Once Roe Falls”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
Also online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has a jurisprudence essay titled “Cory Booker Aside, Democrats Stranded Ketanji Brown Jackson.”
“Ketanji Brown Jackson Survives a Final Bruising Day of Questions; Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee pummeled the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court for a second day over her sentencing record on cases involving child sex abuse”: Carl Hulse and Jonathan Weisman of The New York Times have this report.
“Idaho Gov. Little signs law allowing families to sue abortion providers, despite concerns”: Nicole Blanchard of The Idaho Statesman has this report.
Mike Baker of The New York Times reports that “Idaho Governor Calls Abortion Law ‘Unwise’ but Signs It Anyway; The law, modeled after one in Texas, bans abortions after about six weeks and allows some people — including relatives of rapists — to sue abortion providers.”
And Laura Kusisto of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Idaho Governor Signs Six-Week Abortion Ban Based on Texas Model, but Voices Concerns; Republican says law sets dangerous precedent by ‘deputizing private citizens’ to enforce it through private lawsuits.”
“Justice Clarence Thomas misses Supreme Court arguments because of hospitalization”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.
“A Judge Is Hardly Asked About Judging; Partisan talking points replaced questions about legal issues at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearings”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news analysis.
“Clarence Thomas Misses Supreme Court Arguments for Third Day”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.
“Jackson says she’d recuse from Asian-American discrimination case against Harvard; Supreme Court expected to hear Harvard Asian-American discrimination case next term”: Tyler Olson of Fox News has this report.
“The Supreme Court’s Astonishing, Inexplicable Blow to the Voting Rights Act in Wisconsin”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“Formal Conflicts of Interest Versus Bias: Ketanji Brown Jackson Edition.” Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”
“Why Republican senators kept bringing up Janice Rogers Brown”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.
Online at The Washington Post, columnist Paul Waldman has an essay titled “Republicans make Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearing all about their own victimhood.”
Also online at The Washington Post, columnist Jennifer Rubin has an essay titled “Ketanji Brown Jackson exposes the real judicial radicals.”
“Supreme Court Sides With Republicans in Case on Wisconsin Redistricting; The justices sent a case on legislative maps back to a state court for another look, but they refused a request to block the state’s congressional maps”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.
And Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that “U.S. Supreme Court throws out Wisconsin’s redistricting plan for legislative maps.”
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a per curiam opinion and an order in this matter.
“Republican Senators Seem Pretty Fired Up to Get Rid of Some Civil Rights; Some of the ‘questions’ posed to Ketanji Brown Jackson are thinly-veiled previews of where conservatives hope the Supreme Court will take the law in the years to come”: Lisa Needham has this post at Balls and Strikes.
“Kagan, Biden, Clinton and Other Friends of Walter Dellinger Pay Tribute; In a virtual service honoring the late Walter Dellinger, President Joe Biden declared him as ‘the protector of American democracy,’ and Justice Elena Kagan praised him as a ‘clear-eyed optimist'”: Tony Mauro has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.”
“Does Ketanji Brown Jackson Think Babies Are Racist And Other Not Exactly On Point Questions From The US Senate; From being asked if babies are racist to how religious she is on a scale of 1 to 10”: Paul McLeod of BuzzFeed News has this report.
“GOP’s 2024 contenders leap into Supreme Court spotlight; A quartet of Republican presidential hopefuls aren’t afraid to use their Judiciary Committee lecterns to audition for presidential runs”: Burgess Everett of Politico has this report.
“Marsha Blackburn Lectures First Black Woman Nominated to Supreme Court on ‘So-Called’ White Privilege; The Republican from Tennessee suggested to Ketanji Brown Jackson that it’s merely a coincidence that only 2 of America’s 114 Supreme Court justices have been Black”: Ryan Bort of Rolling Stone has this report.
“Ted Cruz was right: Babies are super racist. A Supreme Court nominee should know that. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson dodged Cruz’s racist baby question. But when is the last time you heard a baby denounce racism? Never. They’re silent on the issue.” Rex Huppke has this essay online at USA Today.
“Supreme Court Nominee Jackson’s Support Tied for Highest”: Jeffrey M. Jones of Gallup has this report.
And Ariel Edwards-Levy of CNN reports that “Most Americans say it’s important for the Supreme Court to look like the country as a whole.”
“Braun walks back remarks criticizing SCOTUS ruling that legalized interracial marriage”: Caroline Vakil of The Hill has this report.
“Is Corpus Linguistics About To Have A Moment?” Caroline Simson of Law360 has this news analysis (subscription required for access) in which I am quoted.
At 10 a.m. eastern time today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in ZF Automotive US Inc. v. Luxshare Ltd., No. 21-401. C-SPAN plans to stream the oral argument live online via this link.