There isn’t much to be said about today’s flubbed oath that hasn’t been said already. Jan Crawford Greenburg points out that an oath of office flub isn’t unprecedented: It’s worth pointing out that Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who had been President himself, also flubbed the oath when he was swearing in Herbert Hoover in [...]

The Supreme Court Opinion Line is reporting that: “We expect to release orders and opinions on Wednesday, January 21.” Usually the opinion line simply says: “The next day for possible opinions is ____.” I’m not sure I’d read too much into it, but the Court was expected to hand down opinions on Wednesday regardless.

Marty Lederman, known to many as one of the most insightful legal bloggers on the ‘net, will begin work immediately in the Office of Legal Council in the Obama administration. From 1994 to 2002, he served as Attorney Advisor in the OLC and he left in 2002 to take up a teaching position at Georgetown [...]