Panelists:
•Christopher Schmidt, Associate Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law
•Sheldon Nahmod - Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law
•Kimberly Robinson - Supreme Court Reporter, Bloomberg BNA
•Oyez
At 2 p.m. EST, #SCOTUSchat commenced!Q1: Before we look at at the December sitting, #SCOTUS kicked off the 2015 term October 5. How have oral arguments been going?
A1. #SCOTUS has heard some interesting criminal procedure questions, like race in juries (Foster): http://bit.ly/1TBIiwz #SCOTUSchat
A1: Oct full of criminal: conspiracy, juvenile sentencing & death penalty ǀ http://src.bna.com/bk2 & http://src.bna.com/bk3 #SCOTUSchat- A1: Many capital #SCOTUS cases this term. See how last term’s Glossip factored into arguments so far ǀ http://src.bna.com/Cr #SCOTUSchat
- A1: #SCOTUS also heard arguments about death penalty instructions in Kansas v. Carr (and v. Gleason): http://bit.ly/1TBIjAR #SCOTUSchat
- A1: There were several criminal cases in Nov sitting too: Batson challenge, mandatory mins, IFP fees ǀ http://src.bna.com/bk5 #SCOTUSchat
- A1: And take a look at Glossip from last term: http://bit.ly/1RsAay2 #SCOTUSchat https://twitter.com/KimberlyRobinsn/status/675013140594171904 …
- A1: The court has also heard 4 cases that could significantly cut back on class actions ǀ http://src.bna.com/MZ #SCOTUSchat
A1. After fireworks at the end of last term, nothing too heated in oral arguments (until yesterday!) #SCOTUSchat- A1: But argument in class cases suggest might not be so drastic http://src.bna.com/83 (Spokeo) http://src.bna.com/9f (Tyson) #SCOTUSchat
- A1: #SCOTUS has thrown up procedural barriers in cases this term including pulling an argument in Nov ǀ http://src.bna.com/81 #SCOTUSchat
- A1. Scalia snipe in Kansas v. Gleason: "Kansans, unlike our Justice Breyer, do not think the death penalty is unconstitutional"#SCOTUSchat
Q2: December 8 #SCOTUS heard what some have called the most important voting case in 60 years—Evenwel v Abbott. What is at stake?
- A2: One effect is that Evenwel could shift voting power away from urban areas and toward rural ones: http://bit.ly/1TBIaNB #SCOTUSchat
- A2: “Most important voting case in 60 years…” Referring to Reynolds v Sims (1964) which laid out the 1-person, 1-vote principle #SCOTUSchat
Read #SCOTUS’s landmark one-person, one-vote case, Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964), here: http://ow.ly/VGsKO #SCOTUSchat- A2: Evenwel has obvious partisan implications #elephantintheroom #SCOTUSchat
A2: Evenwell has the potential to change dramatically our understanding of one person one vote. #scotuschat- A2: Federalism and the right to vote intersect in Evenwel ǀ http://src.bna.com/bkL #SCOTUSchat
- A2: Reynolds v. Sims available here: http://bit.ly/1OkoI47 #SCOTUSchat https://twitter.com/KimberlyRobinsn/status/675015113552879618 …
- A2: Q in Evenwel is if 1-person 1 vote requires using total population to draw voting districts or eligible voter population #SCOTUSchat
- But the voter id case, Crawford, of a few years ago was also quite significant. #scotuschat
- A2: Chris discussed partisan implications in a blog post earlier this week: http://bit.ly/1OLdIRX #SCOTUSchat https://twitter.com/ISCOTUS/status/675015313440788480 …
#SCOTUSchat: December Wrap-Up
On December 10, Bloomberg Law and Oyez hosted a Twitter chat to discuss December's Supreme Court oral arguments.
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