Welcome to Justiceline, ThinkProgress Justice’s morning round-up of the latest legal news and developments. Remember to follow us on Twitter at @TPJustice
- Justice Ginsburg warns that several opinions are coming that will reveal “sharp disagreement” among the justices.
- Meanwhile, the Court could reveal as soon as today what it plans to do with a Montana case that would allow the conservative justices to fix the error they made in Citizens United.
- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) predicts little bipartisan cooperation on efforts to mitigate the damage Citizens United did to our democracy.
- A Canadian court declared a law prohibiting physician assisted suicide unconstitutional, although with some major caveats.
- The Virginia GOP will use a convention, rather than a primary, to pick its statewide candidates next year — a process that historically has enabled hardline conservatives to dominate the nominations.
Previous in TP Justice
By clicking and submitting a comment I acknowledge the ThinkProgress Privacy Policy and agree to the ThinkProgress Terms of Use. I understand that my comments are also being governed by Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, or Hotmail’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policies as applicable, which can be found here.