She said such a ruling wouldn’t necessarily carry over to other states. “There is a huge amount of disparity in the candidates that end up on the ballot in different states in every election,” Stevenson pointed out. She described that as “a feature of our process, not a bug.”...
In the legal back and forth over the travel ban, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco said a reply from the Trump administration was now due on Monday. The ruling me...
b. Administrability/feasibility: a specific form of “impact” brief that often focuses on whether a particular ruling from the Supreme Court would be administrable or proposes a more manageable alternative. Example: the Brennan Center’s brief proposing a test for deciding illicit partisan gerryman...
He was deeply critical of the law which he said had a “clear purpose and actual effect” to “nullify this Court’s rulings, as he stressed that other states –inspired by the Texas law—could target other constitutional rights. “If the legislatures of the several states may, at will...
As for more explicit laws that offer protection for discrimination against gay couples, as had been proposed in Kansas, they would likely face challenges based on the Court’s ruling inRomer v. Evans, a 1996 decision which prevented Colorado from denying LGBT citizens the protections of the stat...
the mere threat of even unsuccessful suits brought under S. B. 8 chills constitutionally protected conduct, given the peculiar rules that the State has imposed.” He was deeply critical of the law which he said had a “clear purpose and actual effect” to “nullify this Court’s rulings, ...