Comments on: The Post-Partisan Court?

By: Nebraska Stands Down « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST

Nebraska Stands Down « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:55:54 +0000

[...] much talk, including my own, of this term’s rise of the Roberts Court, we may be in for another incarnation sooner than [...]

By: Interview @ Concurring Opinions « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST

Interview @ Concurring Opinions « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:35:24 +0000

[...] a left-of-center government and knows which storms his ship can handle and which it cannot. I wrote prospectively about this back in December, Jeff Rosen of The New Republic wrote about it in February, and Adam [...]

By: NYT End-of-Term Analysis « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST

NYT End-of-Term Analysis « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:16:00 +0000

[...] analysis is absolutely on point. The intellectual underpinning of F1@1F has been my hypothesis, now apparently proven if the NYT analysis is a reliable source, that this term’s docket [...]

By: Graham, Comstock, and the Chief Justice « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST

Graham, Comstock, and the Chief Justice « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:25:56 +0000

[...] Law and Politics by Mike Sacks on May 26, 2010 F1@1F has from its inception been animated by my hypothesis that the Roberts Court’s docket and decisions have been shaped the Chief Justice’s [...]

By: Someone Hasn’t Been Reading F1@1F… « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST

Someone Hasn’t Been Reading F1@1F… « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:52:53 +0000

[...] assertion defies facts. In fact, I began F1@1F to explore whether the opposite holds true–that Chief Justice Roberts has guided the Court more modestly under Democratic electoral [...]

By: The Roosevelt Rubicon « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST

The Roosevelt Rubicon « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:01:49 +0000

[...] to strike down the law are overheated. We may expect the conservative bloc and Kennedy to chart rightward on conservative-libertarian issues, but as long as the Democrats hold at least one of the elected [...]

By: Jeff Rosen’s Must-Read on CJ Roberts « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST

Jeff Rosen’s Must-Read on CJ Roberts « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:04:48 +0000

[...] Rosen’s latest piece in The New Republic. Here’s the money quote, as far as F1@1F is concerned: And then, there was last term’s voting-rights case, in which Roberts wrote an 8-1 decision [...]

By: Welcome Slate Readers! « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST

Welcome Slate Readers! « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:32:02 +0000

[...] a penchant for overruling old cases without explicitly saying so, and an uncanny sense of just how much activism the public will tolerate, the Roberts Court has done a remarkable job of conforming its behavior to [...]

By: CJ Roberts’s Concurrence « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST

CJ Roberts’s Concurrence « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:46:55 +0000

[...] CJ Roberts’s Concurrence Posted in Case Reports by Mike Sacks on January 21, 2010 I just finished reading Chief Justice Roberts’s concurring opinion, joined by Justice Alito, in Citizens United. It is a fascinating mix of ideological slime surrounded by institutional silver-lining. [...]

By: In Line, but Neither First One nor at One First « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST

In Line, but Neither First One nor at One First « FIRST ONE @ ONE FIRST — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:42:21 +0000

[...] The delay suggests that we could see a late Rehnquist-era fractured opinion where no majority commands a clear holding. It does not suggest, however, a NAMUDNO-style pull-back to a broad consensus opinion with a narrow holding. [...]