Toobin on the next Court appointees

In light of Justice Souter’s announcement last night that he will step down from the Supreme Court, here’s what Jeffrey Toobin said yesterday at the Q&A with Arlington High School students, regarding possible nominees: Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review, and the law review president almost always becomes a clerk for the Supreme Court. But Obama did [...]

Court news – Souter to retire

Two items tonight- Legal Times reports that Mark Levy, DC lawyer and veteran of 16 Supreme Court arguments, was found dead in his office this morning.  Police are investigating his death as a possible gun related suicide. And, Justice Souter, for whom many of our audience at the Court Journalist Panel Discussion last Sunday professed [...]

Covering The Court – live! (now with video)

This was a fantastic panel discussion – the speakers were friendly and funny, and shared a lot of great insight and trivia.  Unfortunately, the discussion moved quickly so there were definitely questions and answers that I missed. Hopefully some of the video clips will help to fill in gaps (we didn’t have a tripod, so [...]

Analysis of the Court hearing Safford United School District v. Redding

What do you think? Lyle Denniston, of the SCOTUS Blog, wrote a very interesting piece yesterday about the vibe in the Court during the hearing of Safford United School District v. Redding on Tuesday. This is a case about  “public school principals’ authority to conduct personal searches of the youths in their charge,” and Denniston [...]