As discussed on New York Court Watcher before, there have been changes at the Court of Appeals since the elevation of Rowan Wilson to be Chief Judge. They are hard to miss for anyone paying attention to New York’s highest
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Vincent Martin Bonventre, the Justice Robert H. Jackson Distinguished Professor at Albany Law School, inaugurated New York Court Watcher in May 2008. Court observer Bonventre offers research and commentary on the United States Supreme Court, the New York Court of Appeals, and other federal and state courts on a wide range of public law issues.
Since its inception, New York Court Watcher has published several hundred commentaries. Virtually all of them are based on original research. Voting patterns of Justices and judges, as well as decisional patterns of the courts on which they sit, are a staple of the commentaries. Courts, Justices and judges, and the politics surrounding them--as well as practiced by them--are examined from a realistic and practical perspective. That is, legal realism as opposed to formalism. From the perspective of a political scientist as well as a lawyer.
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Roberts vs. Trump: Barely Disguised Contempt (Part 2)
Many readers are understandably upset with the Roberts Court’s dismantling of the Voting Rights Act and other decisions viewed as politically and socially regressive. But there is another side of Roberts and his Court–perhaps just a slice–that shouldn’t be overlooked.…
The Voting Rights Decision–A Fait Accompli
Let’s look at the latest voting rights decision before returning to Roberts vs. Trump.There is understandable dismay and outright disgust with last week’s voting rights decision–mine included. But any shock and surprise about Louisiana v. Callais, whether from the dissenting…
Roberts vs. Trump: Barely Disguised Contempt
Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty ImagesLinda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize winning former
Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, recently put it this way: the
Chief Justice’s “vexation with Mr. Trump verges on acute concern.” [Linda
Greenhouse, Roberts Is Losing…
Amy Coney Barrett (Part 2)–"Non-Hack"
Source: Elizabeth Frantz/NY Times“The Supreme Court’s second-newest justice is proving herself to be a non-hack —to the increasing consternation of MAGA.”That’s Matt Ford, Associate Editor of the politically liberal The New Republic magazine.But it’s not just liberals who have nice things to…
Amy Coney Barrett–"Rattled Law Professor"
Source: Allison Robbert/NY TimesThe complete line: “She’s a rattled law professor with her head up her a**.”By the way, that’s from a gentleman named Mike Davis, speaking on Steve Bannon’s podcast. This Davis fellow actually served as the head counsel…
Splinters in the 6-3 Supreme Court (Part 5: Clarence Thomas cont’d)
Credit: @realDonaldTrumpIn Part 5 of this series, we saw that Justice Clarence Thomas broke with other political conservatives on the Court–sometimes joined by one of them–to dissent against a majority consisting of both liberal Democratic and conservative Republican appointees. In…
Splinters in the 6-3 Supreme Court (Part 4: Clarence Thomas)
Credit: Evan Vucci/APClarence Thomas is a different story from Amy Coney Barrett.We’ve been seeing how Justice Barrett has emerged as an increasingly moderate voice on the Court. In some of the Court’s most important cases, she has disagreed with the…
Once More Time: The Supreme Court Again Says Reconsider NY’s Abortion Mandate!
Yes, once again, the New York courts suffered an embarrassing unanimous, summary overruling of their decisions which persistently upheld the imposition of the state’s abortion coverage mandate upon religious objecting organizations, such as a Roman Catholic Diocese.For years now, I’ve…
Splinters in the 6-3 Supreme Court (Part 3: Amy Coney Barrett again)
Credit: Mark Schiefelbein/APIn the first installment in this series, back in December last year, we saw that Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s voting record had unmistakenly moderated. It had become less politically conservative in the most recently completed term of Court,…