Good afternoon from Capitol Hill. On Monday, the Supreme Court delivered its ruling in Trump v United States, regarding presidential immunity. By a vote of 6 to 3, the Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, held that former presidents can never be prosecuted for actions relating to the core powers of their office. More broadly, the Court also found that...
Good afternoon from Capitol Hill. The House is out this week and the Senate is in for a short week (in other words, their normal work week). Before leaving town last week, the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act which contained several key amendments to address the White House’s continued politicization of the military. Among them were amendments to:...
The House and Senate are officially out of town for the next six weeks until they return for a lame duck session in mid- November. And that lame duck will be a busy one. Before they left, both chambers passed a Continuing Resolution to December 16, setting up another government funding deadline. (You can see the House vote here, and the Senate vote here.) Also on...
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Michael Lissner May 25, 2011 A few years ago, the Library of Congress released a PDF that listed the exact dates that the early Supreme Court Cases were decided. Since the written record only contained the month and year of the decision, this list served as the official record for the cases. While it was great for the Library of Congress to publish this report...
Michael Lissner February 22, 2016 We here at Free Law Project are happy to announce the launch of our Supreme Court Citation Network tool. Created in collaboration with the SCOTUS Mapping Project at the University of Baltimore, the tool permits users to create citation networks that represent “lines of cases” in Supreme Court doctrine. With the tool...
Michael Lissner May 2, 2016 A sketch showing links between cases (click for enlarged view) In February we announced our Supreme Court Citation Network tool that we developed with University of Baltimore School of Law. We haven’t had a chance until now to comment on some of the technical difficulties that came up while we were working on it. If you’re not...
Michael Lissner September 6, 2016 We’re excited to share that as of today, we have added the latest data from the Supreme Court Database (SCDB) into CourtListener. This update adds SCDB ID’s, parallel citations, vote counts, and decision direction data to about 20,000 Supreme Court cases. Each of these enhancements enables some great functionality. For...
SFS is dismayed by today’s Supreme Court Ruling regarding Waters of the United States. The Court’s decision means only wetlands with a “continuous surface connection to bodies that are ‘waters of the United States’ in their own right, so that they are “indistinguishable” from those waters” will be protected. This leaves many adjacent...
Michael Lissner September 1, 2023 A bedrock principle of our democracy is court transparency. All Americans have a long-established Constitutional right to attend hearings and review cases. This keeps courts open, honest, and fair. But in a recent Sixth Circuit case, Grae v. Corrections Corp. of America, a new, higher standard may have been created for those who wish...