Thursday round-up
on Aug 4, 2016 at 5:57 am
Yesterday the Court blocked a federal district court order that would have required a Virginia school board to allow a transgender student who identifies as a boy to use the boys’ bathroom until the dispute can be litigated on the merits. I covered the dispute for my own blog, with other coverage coming from Mark Walsh at Education Week, Caitlin Emma and Josh Gerstein at Politico, Moriah Balingit of The Washington Post, Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal, Adam Liptak of The New York Times, and Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News.
Briefly:
- In her column for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse looks at the role of Sandra Day O’Connor as the first female Justice and concludes that “the most important result of women becoming judges lies not in the exceptional but in the routine.”
- Additional coverage of Tuesday’s ruling by the Delaware Supreme Court striking down that state’s death penalty law comes from Jessica Reyes at Delaware Online.
- In his column for Bloomberg View, Noah Feldman suggests that recent decisions by federal courts striking down voter identification laws “are sending a message to the justices that they will continue to take voting rights seriously notwithstanding the court’s precedents.”
- In The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required), Tony Mauro reports that “the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr. in 1995 urged President Bill Clinton to nominate Merrick Garland” – President Barack Obama’s nominee to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia – to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
- And in a story for Supreme Court Brief (subscription required), Mauro reports that Jenner & Block and the University of Chicago Law School “picked an odd time to join more than a dozen law schools in launching a Supreme Court clinic.”
- At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman contends that, until a ninth Justice is confirmed, “we might expect the Justices to maintain their tentative stance toward new cases, particularly those that might engender conflict and lead to evenly divided votes.”
- At his Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen reports on the filing of a jurisdictional statement in a case challenging North Carolina’s redistricting plan as partisan gerrymandering.
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