Friday round-up

The Court wraps up a relatively uneventful week today.

Briefly:

• The AP (via USA Today) reports that Justice Sotomayor was among the fans of bipartisan seating at the State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Video of Justice Sotomayor™s Thursday lecture to students at Kansas State University is here (thanks to How Appealing).
• Remaining on the State of the Union theme, the editorial board of the Boston Globe chides Justices Alito, Thomas, and Scalia for skipping the address; it contends that although [s]howing up [for the speech] isn™t political, boycotting it is.   Moreover, it notes, the nation is best served by a Supreme Court it can trust to be a source of independent judicial review.
• Thomas Nash of the Armenian Mirror-Spectator reviews the implications of the Court™s denial of certiorari in Griswold v. Driscoll, which the paper describes as a high-profile Armenian Genocide case.