{"id":3100,"date":"2010-01-11T13:07:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2010-01-11T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T18:51:14","slug":"new-year-new-supreme-court-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3100\/new-year-new-supreme-court-opinions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year, New Supreme Court Opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the U.S. Supreme Court resumes its 2009-2010 term with a round of <a href=\"http:\/\/supremecourtus.gov\/oral_arguments\/argument_calendars\/MonthlyArgumentCalJanuary2010.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">two oral arguments<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Though the two cases that pit <em>Alabama v. North Carolina<\/em> and <em>Briscoe v. Virginia<\/em> have national legal implications, court watchers are eagerly awaiting other consequential decisions this term.<\/p>\n<p>The fate of the First Amendment and campaign finance reform could be decided as early as tomorrow in <em>Citizens United v. FEC<\/em>.\u00a0 The justices reargued the case on September 9, 2009, but the Court has yet to report a decision.\u00a0 With federal primary elections less than a month away, candidates and First Amendment lawyers seek guidance from the Court as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The best case scenario would be a broad sweeping opinion striking down many of McCain-Feingold\u2019s onerous First Amendment restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the spring term ushers in a new round of retirement speculation.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oyez.org\/justices\/john_paul_stevens\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Justice John Paul Stevens<\/span><\/a> is the oldest member of the Court, 89, and has not hired his full slate of clerks for the next Supreme Court term.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/article.jsp?id=1202437796175&amp;High_Court_Returns_to_a_Busy_Schedule\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This article<\/span><\/a> also mentioned the possible retirement of Justice Antonin Scalia.\u00a0 Any vacancy would cause political wrangling in the Senate but a Scalia departure, coupled with President Obama\u2019s liberal record on judges, would result in a judicial and political Armageddon unseen since the days of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1987\/07\/02\/us\/bork-picked-for-high-court-reagan-cites-his-restraint-confirmation-fight-looms.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Judge Robert Bork<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever occurs during the conclusion of this Supreme Court term will surely have major implications for individual rights and the future of our Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the U.S. Supreme Court resumes its 2009-2010 term with a round of two oral arguments.\u00a0 Though the two cases that pit Alabama v. North Carolina and Briscoe v. Virginia have national legal implications, court watchers are eagerly awaiting other consequential decisions this term. The fate of the First Amendment and campaign finance reform could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[285,94,716,717,718,92,284],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-antonin-scalia","tag-citizens-united-v-fec","tag-first-amendment","tag-john-paul-stevens","tag-robert-bork","tag-supreme-court","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}