Friday round-up
on Oct 30, 2015 at 9:40 am
Today the Justices meet for their October 30 Conference. The petitions for review that they will consider include several challenges to the government’s accommodation for non-profits that object to providing their female employees with health insurance that includes access to birth control. In her column for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse suggests that the Court “is now approaching a moment of truth” and argues that to “accept the claims being made here is to plunge into a world where conviction clothed in religious garb, no matter how untethered from reality, can be permitted to impair the rights of non-adherents.” And at ACSblog, Leslie Griffin suggests that the Court’s choice of cases “may signal just how far the Court is ready to go in the name of religious freedom.”
Briefly:
- In The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required), Tony Mauro reports that, for the first time in several years, no Justices will appear at the Federalist Society’s convention, “apparently because this year’s convention theme is the role of Congress—though it will have a panel discussion on the Roberts Court’s 10th anniversary.”
- At the National Constitution Center, Adam Liptak and Steven Mazie review “the issues and arguments in the 10 most controversial opinions of the term.”
- Jeremy Jacobs of Greenwire reports on “what some see an alarming trend: the funneling of interstate water fights to the Supreme Court.”
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