William Blake on C-SPAN
An episode of Lectures in History on Muller v. Oregon and Adkins v. Children's Hospital. (Link)
William Blake Cited in Final Report of Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States
My research on New Deal public opinion was cited in a report by a presidential commission tasked with considering Supreme Court reform. (Link)
William Blake in Newsweek
Electoral College's Republican Bias Smaller Than When Trump Won 2016 Election: Study By Kashmira Gander The Electoral College has historically favored the Republican party, but this year the bias towards the GOP may be smaller than when President Don...
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William Blake on C-SPAN
An episode of Lectures in History on New Deal-era public opinion. (Link)
William Blake in The Conversation
Electoral College benefits whiter states, study shows States can force members of the Electoral College to vote for the winner of the popular vote in their state’s presidential primary, the Supreme Court ruled in 2020. That July decision removed one o...
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William Blake in the Associated Press
Pandemic means a silent June at the Supreme Court By Jessica Gresko WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the time of the year when Supreme Court justices can get testy. They might have to find a new way to show it. The court’s most fought-over decisions in its mo...
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William Blake in The Conversation
Kavanaugh’s ‘judge as umpire’ metaphor sounds neutral but it’s deeply conservative Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh invoked baseball to explain his judicial philosophy at his confirmation hearing. “A good judge,” he said in his opening sta...
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William Blake in the Baltimore Sun
Bring Back Justice O'Connor The death of Justice Antonin Scalia has already deepened the divide in American politics. Even when the president’s party controls the Senate, Supreme Court confirmations are difficult; just ask President George W. Bush abo...
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William Blake on CNN
CNN Newsroom [14:30:00] POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: As President Obama chooses his replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, he is also scolding Senate Republicans who say they will block whomever he nominates. But some are calling the presi...
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William Blake in the New York Times
Supreme Court’s End-of-Summer Conference: Where Appeals ‘Go to Die’ By Adam Liptak WASHINGTON — Four weeks from now, on Sept. 28, the Supreme Court justices will gather in private for an annual ritual called the “long conference.” They will consider ...
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William Blake in the Washington Post
You can’t blame the Framers for the filibuster By Ezra Klein If Democrats really do try to reform the filibuster Jan. 5, we’re likely to hear a lot about how the Founding Fathers designed the Senate with the filibuster in mind, or how the filibuster ...
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William Blake in the Wall Street Journal
Judges as Umpires, Umpires as Judges By Christopher Shea Anyone following the debate over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act will have been freshly reminded of the inadequacy of Chief Justice John Roberts’s comparison of Justices to bas...
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William Blake in the New York Times
In a Polarized Court, Getting the Last Word By ADAM LIPTAK Published: March 8, 2010 A few times a year, Supreme Court justices go out of their way to emphasize their unhappiness by reading a dissent from the bench out loud, supplementing the dry rea...
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