Tuesday round-up
on Aug 18, 2015 at 7:47 am
Briefly:
- In USA Today, Tony Mauro observes that, with three Justices who will be over the age of eighty in January 2017, “[o]ne of the campaign issues that went underdiscussed during the first prime-time Republican presidential debate should really be at the top of the list: the future of the Supreme Court.”
- In his Sidebar column for The New York Times, Adam Liptak discusses what he describes as “the sleeper case” of last Term, suggesting that, in “an otherwise minor decision about a municipal sign ordinance, the Court in June transformed the First Amendment.”
- At OnLabor, Maggie McKinley argues that the Court’s 2011 decision in Borough of Duryea v. Guarneri “should guide the Court’s decision in” this Term’s Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, and she urges the Court to rule that, because “the activity at issue in Friedrichs is not constitutionally protected, the Court should hold that the government does not implicate the agency fee doctrine when it compels an individual to subsidize that activity.”
- Lien Hoang of Voice of America reports that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg traveled to Vietnam, where (among other things) she discussed the freedom of the press and U.S. antidiscrimination laws.
