Archive for December 18th, 2009

Is the Court Falling Behind?

0 Comments Published by December 18th, 2009 in Court Procedure, Supreme Court

The Court has been criticized for releasing only four opinion going into the winter break and Linda Greenhouse even suggested that internal wrangling over Citizens United may have “sucked the air out of the term.” Maybe so, but the Court has done nothing publicly to suggest that this term is progressing differently from any other. [...]



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