Round-Up: Other News

Coverage of yesterday’s opinions and orders is gathered in separate news round-ups here and here. Other Supreme Court related news is collected here:

Last Friday, Aaron Streett of Baker Botts published the latest edition of Supreme Court Today, discussing last week’s death-penalty decisions and other action.

At McClatchy Newspapers, Mike Doyle has this story on “in forma pauperis” petitions during the current Term.

Yesterday, Robert Barnes had this column in the Washington Post continuing the discussion of the significance of justices’ atholicism in the Carhart decision and highlighting Justice Alito’s prominent role in the campaign finance cases argued last week. Barnes’s column and Peter Lattman’s post at the WSJ.com Law Blog point to this post from University of Chicago Law School Provost Geoffrey Stone at the Faculty Blog, which ignited the debate over the role of Catholicism.

At Slate, Garrett Epps and Dahlia Lithwick examine Justice Kennedy’s dualities in light of his recent “partial birth” abortion opinion here. And in Sunday’s Washington Post, Slate’s William Saletan had this op-ed piece discussing the implications of the Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. In addition, Priscilla Smith, counsel for Dr. Leroy Carhart in Gonzales v. Carhart on behalf of the Center for Reproductive Rights, had this commentary on the Court’s ruling at Balkinization last week.

Roll Call’s Erin P. Billings has this report (subscription req’d) about Senators’ views on the possibility of a High Court vacancy in the next two years (via Election Law blog). Lastly, at Opinio Juris, guest blogger Marko Milanovic has part I and part II in a series of posts on the Supreme Court’s 2006 ruling in Hamdan.