Monday round-up

In a quiet time at the Supreme Court, Robert Barnes of the Washington Post examines the Court™s recent opinions reversing decisions of the Ninth Circuit.  Barnes describes the Court as having been in scold mode, reject[ing] the work of the San Francisco-based court without a single affirmative vote from a justice in five consecutive cases.  In her column in the San Francisco Chronicle, Debra Saunders argues that the unanimity of these decisions means that there’s no left-right political divide in the Big Bench’s findings – just right on the law and wrong on the law.

Anderson, South Carolina™s Independent Mail looks ahead to the oral argument in Turner v. Rogers a case involving civil contempt and the right to counsel while ACSblog looks back a year after the Court™s decision in Citizens United.

The editorial board of the Miami Herald applauds last week™s decision in Thompson v. North American Stainless, in which a unanimous Court ruled that Title VII prohibits an employer from firing an employee in retaliation for the filing of a gender discrimination claim by the employee™s fiancée.  Meanwhile, the editorial board of the Trenton Times expresses regret that the full Court did not attend last week™s State of the Union address.