Solicitor General Paul D. Clement — who we think is the first solicitor general to really dig alternative rock — will resign on June 2, according to a press release. Prior to his 2005 confirmation, Clement (Georgetown, Harvard Law) served for over four years as the principal deputy Solicitor General, and during that period [...]

Here's an interesting commentary by Edward Lazarus regarding McCain's vision for the Supreme Court. Lazarus, as you may know, was a Supreme Court clerk who wrote a "tell-all" about the experience. The book was called Closed Chambers, I believe, and it was an interesting read.

It’s no use, I’m going to be a public spectacle whether I come out of the closet or not, beyond T-shirts and bobblehead dolls and what-not. So if, you know, if I am going to be a public figure, I guess the public may as well get their notion of me firsthand rather than filtered [...]

Yesterday’s splintered 6-3 ruling in the Voter ID case polarized the High Court in at least two respects — whether voter fraud actually exists, and whether Indiana’s strict requirement of photo ID will deter certain groups, such as poor and minority citizens, from voting. (Click here for stories from the WSJ and NYT.) To recap, [...]

This article summarizes the recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Indiana's voter ID law.

We’ll admit it: We at LB headquarters tend to gobble up Justice Scalia’s commentary like rabid dogs. We’d planned to wait till Monday morning to discuss Nino’s upcoming appearance on “60 Minutes.” But with CBS putting out a teaser, we just couldn’t wait. Scalia’s appearance on Sunday night, partly an attempt to pump up his [...]

Law Blog colleague and WSJ Supreme Court reporter Jess Bravin sent along the following item, based on the oral argument yesterday on the so-called Millionaires’ Amendment. (Click here for an earlier blog post on the topic and to Bravin’s story from today.) Why do Supreme Court justices complain so much that their salaries–$217,800 for the [...]

Law Blog colleague and WSJ Supreme Court reporter Jess Bravin sent along the following item, based on the oral argument yesterday on the so-called Millionaires’ Amendment. (Click here for an earlier blog post on the topic and here for Bravin’s story from today.) Why do Supreme Court justices complain so much that their salaries–$217,800 for [...]

In the midst of a busy stretch of the current Supreme Court term, two justices recently found time to head back to school; one to preside over an Ivy League moot court competition, another to attend the spring football practice at a Big 12 school.
First, the NYT’s Adam Liptak, soon slated to take over for [...]

With their pro-business jurisprudence, the justices may be capturing an emerging spirit of agreement among liberal and conservative elites about the value of free markets. Among the professional classes, many Democrats and Republicans . . . . share a relatively laissez-faire, technocratic vision of the economy and are suspicious of excessive regulation . . . [...]