DailyWrit
This blawg focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court and the political and legal role it plays in the federal government.
Author: Kedar Bhatia is a finance and government sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin.
Blawg Related Categories: U.S. Supreme Court • University of Texas
Recent Posts from DailyWrit
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Court Dismisses Bell v. Kelly
The Supreme Court dismissed Bell v. Kelly
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Justice Scalia Forced To Apologize During Oral Arguments
During arguments this week in Bell v. Kelly, Justice Scalia chided Richard Bress for not including a particular part of the statute in his briefs to the court. Unfortunately, Bress had included the statutes in…
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Court Hands Down First Opinion of the New Term
The Supreme Court this week handed down a decision in Winters v. National Resources Defense Council, a case revolving around the Navy’s use of sonar and its impact on the environment. The Court ruled 7-2…
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Oral Argument Contest Complete
The ongoing debate between attorney hoping to represent the state of Rhode Island before the Court on Monday finally settled their dispute and Theodore Olsen, an experienced Supreme Court litigator, will argue for the state.…
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Define profanity
I’ve been reading the briefs in FCC v. Fox (petitioner, respondent, petitioner’s reply) and its been hard for me to take any of these suits seriously. They’ve tried with difficulty to codify profanity and ‘obscenity’…
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Justices Stevens and Thomas Discuss Death Penalty Proportionality
On Monday the court denied review in Walker v. Georgia, a case revolving around the court’s proportionality standard applied to the death penalty. The court has long struggled to find an adequate means of countering…
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The Cert. Pool in Action
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the role clerks play and how they influence the way cases are accepted and decided. Obviously they play a huge role in Cert. Pool (which Justices Stevens and…
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OT 2007 Audio Now Online
Audio files from the October Term 2007 are now online over at Oyez. You can find them here. Recommended listens: Announcement of Boumediene v. Bush and Oral Arguments in Danforth v. Minnesota.
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Supreme Court Oral Argument Tussle Gets Serious
There is a fascinating fight going on behind the scenes of a case about to reach the Supreme Court. The argument more or less boils down to whether a local attorney who has been with…
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Court Hears Arguments in Navy Sonar Case
The Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments in Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, a case revolving around Navy sonar exercises off the coast of California and their potential impact on the environment. Justices on both…