Edith Roberts Editor

Posted Mon, November 19th, 2018 7:10 am

Monday round-up

The Supreme Court added two cases to its docket on Friday, including In re Department of Commerce, et al., a dispute arising out of a challenge to the administration’s decision to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census form; the court scheduled oral argument in the case for February 19, 2019. Amy Howe covers the order list for this blog, in a post that was first published at Howe on the Court. At Bloomberg, Greg Stohr reports that “[t]he justices will consider the Trump administration’s bid to limit the evidence that can be used in the challenge, which has been the subject of a trial in federal court in New York.” Hansi Lo Wang reports at NPR that “[t]he high court will weigh whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross can be deposed and what other evidence can be considered.” Additional coverage comes from Lyle Denniston at Constitution Daily, Lawrence Hurley at Reuters, Richard Wolf for USA Today, Lydia Wheeler at The Hill, and Deanna Paul and Robert Barnes for The Washington Post.

On Friday, the Supreme Court was asked to substitute Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker as the respondent in a pending cert petition in a gun-rights case, on the ground that that Whitaker’s appointment violated both a federal statute governing Justice Department succession and the appointments clause of the Constitution. Steve Vladeck covers the motion for this blog. At Law.com, Marcia Coyle reports that “[l]egal scholars, members of Congress and others across the political spectrum have debated the legality of Whitaker’s appointment, and [this] court filing marked the latest challenge to the designation of Whitaker as acting attorney general.” Additional coverage comes from Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall for The Wall Street Journal, Adam Liptak for The New York Times, Devlin Barrett for The Washington Post, Lawrence Hurley at Reuters, Richard Wolf and Kevin Johnson for USA Today, Greg Stohr at Bloomberg, Lydia Wheeler at The Hill and Mary Papenfuss at BuzzFeed News. [Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys contribute to this blog in various capacities, is among the counsel to the petitioner in this motion.]

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Recommended Citation: Edith Roberts, Monday round-up, SCOTUSblog (Nov. 19, 2018, 7:10 AM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/11/monday-round-up-416/