…by state courts, or must accommodate the state court—or, as the Supreme Court phrases it, accord the state court “comity”—by “abstaining” from these cases even if those courts do have…

…entrenchment of power and encourage a more dynamic and responsive political landscape. Ethics and Accountability: Strengthening ethics regulations and accountability mechanisms to ensure that public officials act in the best…

…Monday that a panel of lower-court judges could enforce the Supreme Court’s new ethics code that was adopted last November. Kagan first endorsed the idea in July and previously praised…

…Court. If the Court is correct in its interpretation of the statute as effectively foreclosing access to federal-court–any federal court, at any level–by state-court criminal defendants in order to argue…

…tame the Court is through politics:  Democrats need to discredit the Court, win elections, and bring the Court under control through recognized constitutional procedures – legislation, jurisdiction-stripping, court-packing, term-limits, etc. …

…to understand the shadow docket. Hope this helps. The Supreme Court ‘Shadow Docket,’ Brennan Center for Justice, Harry Isaiah Black and Alicia Bannon, July 2022. In June 2022, the Supreme…

by Linda Beale More Thinking on Ethics : How about Ethics and Economics A few days ago, I broached a question about “The Countermajoritarian Difficulty and Congressional Ethics“. We seem…

…one-in-ten in either party view the court as liberal. Views of the Supreme Court’s power More than half of Americans (57%) say the Supreme Court has the right amount of…

…Supreme Court and ‘The Shadow Docket’, NPR, Nina Tottenberg, May 2023. The title sounds more like a thriller than a legal treatise. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court uses stealth…

…emergency petition with the Supreme Court requesting a stay of the appellate court’s order lifting the stay. The identified author of Monday’s opinion is a Reagan appointee and Federalist Society…