6+ hour, 44+ min ago  (349+ words) One First | Steve Vladeck | Substack Bonus 219: The Demise of the Death Docket Even as the emergency docket has gotten busier, the Court since OT2020 has largely gotten out of the business of intervening in capital cases'except to un-block executions lower courts…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (778+ words) Welcome back to "One First," a newsletter that aims to make the U. S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I'm grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you'll consider sharing some of…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (724+ words) One First | Steve Vladeck | Substack Bonus 218: Birthright Citizenship and the Cassandra Problem One of my favorite one-liners about dissenting opinions belongs to Judge Henry Friendly'the highly regarded former Second Circuit judge for whom Chief Justice Roberts and Merrick Garland (among…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (915+ words) Welcome back to "One First," a newsletter that aims to make the U. S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I'm grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you'll consider sharing some of…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (250+ words) One First | Steve Vladeck | Substack Bonus 217: The Day the Supreme Court Wasn't Supreme In 1944, Congress enacted a statute effectively giving a specific Second Circuit panel the "final and conclusive" power to resolve a landmark antitrust case'because the Supreme Court lacked…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (324+ words) Welcome back to "One First," a newsletter that aims to make the U. S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I'm grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you'll consider sharing some of…...

6+ mon, 4+ day ago  (250+ words) Here's the full text of section 2 of the act, image first; block quote second, with the key provisions highlighted: In other words, unlike section 1 (which dealt with insurrections and invasions), section 2 imposed two procedural requirements on domestic use of the…...

1+ mon, 6+ hour ago  (477+ words) Welcome back to "One First," a newsletter that aims to make the U. S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I'm grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you'll consider sharing some of…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (278+ words) One First | Steve Vladeck | Substack Bonus 214: Emergency Relief from State Courts I wanted to follow up on the Court's grants of emergency relief Monday night in the Malliotakis redistricting cases (and on my Monday night post about the decision) by…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (198+ words) What follows are my brief summaries of the issues in the two cases, what the Court decided, and the substance of the concurring and dissenting opinions filed in both cases'followed by some concluding thoughts on why, in my view, the…...