Archive for December 9th, 2008
Fishing for a Story: How the Media Is Reading Too Much Into Referrals of Obama Citizenship Cases by Conservative Supreme Court Justices
5 Comments Published by James December 9th, 2008 in Antonin Scalia, Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Blogs, Clarence Thomas, Court Procedure, Current Events, David Souter, Election Law, Media, Presidential Election, Ruth Bader GinsburgOver the course of the past week, both the blogosphere and mainstream media have been spending quite a bit of time over at the Supreme Court rumor mill. There has been a lot of buzz about two cases concerned with president-elect Obama’s citizenship, Donofrio v. Wells (08A407) and Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (08A469). The applications for [...]
Today Is “Safe Harbor” Day 2008
1 Comment Published by James December 9th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Election Law, Presidential ElectionAgain, our thanks to commenter Ted for bringing the Scalia referral to our attention. In speaking about that application for stay, Ted writes: I don’t think Team Obama should get too comfortable with the Court’s denial of [Donofrio] since [Wrotnowski] IS distributed for Dec 12 conference. It’s important to remember that the “safe harbor” deadline–the [...]
