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Tag: Supreme Court
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Republicans Win by Doing Nothing: A Rare Chance for Tradition-Building
This past Friday, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Supreme Court Justice championed as a pioneer of women’s rights, sadly succumbed to metastasized pancreatic cancer. Mercifully, it took a day for the vultures to set in. But by Sunday, President Trump was already promising a new nominee, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was threatening to pack...
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Civil War II?
Above: Protesters occupy the Senate Hart building during a rally against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington. Credit: radionz.co.nz The Culture War, Brett Kavanaugh and “owning the libs” Of course, a real civil war is not going to happen anytime soon, and it will most likely not happen anytime in the far future....
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Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare
Earlier today, the Supreme Court announced its ruling in the case regarding the piece of legislation that has captivated US politics since its passage over two years ago– the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). In a 5-4 vote, the court decided the law not-so-affectionately termed “Obamacare” is constitutional. Chief Justice Roberts wrote for...
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Kagan and the Dominance of the Ivy League
As many journalists and political pundits have pointed out, if Elena Kagan is in fact confirmed as the 112th Supreme Court Justice, it would secure a complete Harvard-Yale Law dominance of the Supreme Bench. Here’s a quick rundown of the current academic pedigrees of the other eight Supreme Court Justices: Samuel Alito Undergraduate: Princeton Law...
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Monday Reading Madness #35
– Months later, Maine highlights the underutilization of our emergency alert system. – The Ivy League is apparently immune to such problems, but here’s an analysis of what happens when you have a 60-40 ratio on campus. – Another big weekend for men’s basketball, while hockey goes 1-1. – Two Cornell professors discuss gender equality...
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Sotomayor Approval
Yesterday, the Senate approved Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. The final vote was 68-31, which was a closer margin than John Roberts (78-22) but less divisive than the Alito approval vote (58-42). Few people doubted her eventual confirmation, and the distribution of the final vote was nothing short of predictable and expected. Only...
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Krauthammer on Ricci
Check out this great article by Charles Krauthammer on the implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Ricci v. DeStefano case (also known as the New Haven Firefighters case). Here’s an excerpt: The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Ricci case — that white firemen suffered illegal discrimination when a promotional test on which they...