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National Security @ This Week's Supreme Court Conference
As usual, SCOTUSblog has a helpful post summarizing some of the key petitions for certiorari that the Supreme Court's nine Justices are set to review at their Conference this Friday. I just thought I'd flag it here because two of the "headliners" are both high-profile national security cases about which we have blogged (just a bit) previously--Latif v.
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As usual, SCOTUSblog has a helpful post summarizing some of the key petitions for certiorari that the Supreme Court's nine Justices are set to review at their Conference this Friday. I just thought I'd flag it here because two of the "headliners" are both high-profile national security cases about which we have blogged (just a bit) previously--Latif v. Obama [presumption of authenticity for intelligence reports in Guantanamo habeas cases] and Clapper v. Amnesty Int'l [private plaintiffs' standing to challenge constitutionality of key provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008].
I'm not a betting man, but as difficult as it is to handicap the odds of a grant in Latif, I think the odds of a grant in Clapper are considerably better than even. We'll know more (probably) at 10 a.m. next Monday...
Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law. A 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, Steve clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit. In addition to serving as a senior editor of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, Steve is also the co-editor of Aspen Publishers’ leading National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law casebooks.
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