Showing posts with label amicus brief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amicus brief. Show all posts
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Opinion | Conservatives brief on immunity highlight how far the GOP has fallen - The Washington Post
In spelling out these arguments in this fashion, the amicus brief not only dismantles Trump's preposterous claims to immunity but also rebukes the entire GOP that has followed Trump into a thicket of lawlessness, authoritarianism, violence and chaos. Its authors thereby vividly illustrate how far Republicans have come in abandoning liberty, limited government, judicial restraint and fair play.
Only if Trump loses and the MAGA movement's lurch to authoritarianism is defeated can the GOP reemerge as a legitimate pro-democracy, center-right party based on the principles outlined in the amicus brief. If that ever occurs, the amicus brief authors might be just the people to advise and lead their former allies to return to the values they once held dear...
Monday, December 11, 2023
This Justice Alito Supreme Court quote anecdote exposes an amicus problem
The Politico report helps spotlight a practice that has been hiding in plain sight for years. But it also underscores the bigger problem with all sorts of amicus briefs in the Supreme Court: the justices' increasing reliance upon these briefs as authoritative sources for factual or legal contentions that haven't been tested in the lower courts and are being advanced by groups or institutions with agendas of their own. Especially as the court has turned more sharply to the right in recent years, that reliance has likewise skewed toward claims advanced by parties with an obvious (and, as Politico suggests, coordinated) ideological bent, at the expense of not only the rules that are supposed to govern the legal process, but also the accuracy of the narratives the court's opinions provide...
Monday, December 4, 2023
‘Plain historical falsehoods’: How amicus briefs bolstered Supreme Court conservatives - POLITICO
"The court adopted a flawed interpretation of abortion criminalization that has been pressed by anti-abortion advocates for more than thirty years," they wrote.
A trio of scholars of medieval history also denounced Alito's argument as misrepresenting the penalties involved related to abortion. The Latin word "crimen" was more akin to a sin that would be "absolved through penance" before the Church — and not a felony, said Sara McDougall, a scholar of medieval law, gender and justice at City University of New York Graduate Center. Further, the meaning of "abortion" often involved "beating a pregnant woman" and was so broad it covered infanticide, she said.
"There's not one felony prosecution for abortion in 13th century England. The church sometimes (but not always) imposed penance — but usually when the intent was to conceal sexual infidelity," said McDougall, who was one of the three medieval scholars. Indeed, this medieval doctrine persisted for hundreds of years until Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1869 that life began at conception, they wrote...
Thursday, September 22, 2022
GOP attorneys general file amicus brief over Trump Mar-a-Lago documents - The Washington Post
Texas's Ken Paxton and 10 other GOP state attorneys general came to the defense of former president Donald Trump on Tuesday in his legal fight over documents the FBI seized last month, filing an amicus brief in a federal appellate court that argued the Biden administration could not be trusted...
Monday, December 18, 2017
Fourteen former US officials co-write 'unusual' amicus brief refuting key points of Trump's Russia denial -- Raw Story
Former U.S. government officials who served in both Republican and Democratic administrations co-wrote an amicus brief in relation to a lawsuit brought against Donald Trump and self-described "dirty trickster" Roger Stone, Business Insider reports. ...
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/fourteen-former-us-officials-co-write-unusual-amicus-brief-refuting-key-points-of-trumps-russia-denial/
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/fourteen-former-us-officials-co-write-unusual-amicus-brief-refuting-key-points-of-trumps-russia-denial/
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