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Des Moines Register: Quota for nominating panel deprives Iowans of opportunities
In Iowa, qualified candidates for the State Judicial Nominating Commission are being rejected because of their gender. The state’s gender quota requires an equal number of male and female commissioners—which means some open seats are available only to men, some only to women. |
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The Hill: Federal agencies lay the groundwork to ignore the Supreme Court
In Weyerhaeuser v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Supreme Court held that land designated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as “critical habitat” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) must be habitable for the species the agency seeks to protect. |
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Apocalypse not: What West Virginia v. EPA really means
On July 5, Axios not-so-subtly warned us that “the Supreme Court’s next target is the executive branch.” The Guardian’s headline was even more stark: “The U.S. Supreme Court has declared war on the Earth’s future.” |
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SCOTUSblog: With Justice Breyer’s retirement, the Court loses a pragmatist (and some laughs)
Anastasia Boden and Elizabeth Slattery reflect on the career of now-retired Justice Stephen Breyer, who sided with PLF in four Supreme Court cases involving property rights or environmental law. He didn’t care about neat lines, Boden and Slattery write. He cared about practicalities. |
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