Thursday round-up

Yesterday’s coverage focused on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing for Principal Deputy Solicitor General Sri Srinivasan, who has been nominated to the D.C. Circuit and whom many observers predict will be President Obama’s next Supreme Court pick. Jeremy W. Peters ofThe New York Timeswrites that Srinivasan “breezed his way through an uneventful Senate confirmation hearing,” while Richard Wolf ofUSA Todaynotes that Srinivasan won praise from several Republican members of the Judiciary Committee, and Michael Doyle writes at hisSuits and Sentencesblog that the hearing became a “love fest.” Evan Perez ofThe Wall Street Journal(subscription required) and Frederic J. Frommer ofThe Associated Pressboth report that Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is likely to vote for confirmation. And Dashiell Bennett ofThe Atlanticargues that “[t]he real danger for Obama is that he will get Srinivasan through to Appeals, and eventually theSupremeCourt, but still leave office in 2017 with an empty bench of liberal judges to follow in that Justice’s footsteps.” Adam Serwer ofMother Jonesprofiles the Supreme Court nominee in waiting Srinivasan, with other coverage of the hearing coming from Todd Ruger ofThe National Law Journal, Lawrence Hurley ofReuters, and Chidanand Rajghatta ofThe Times of India.

Briefly:

• In his Verdict column forJustia, Vikram David Amar discusses what would, and should, happen if the Court dismissesHollingsworth v. Perry, the challenge to California’s ban on same-sex marriage, on the ground that the law’s defenders lack standing.
• Richard Wolf ofUSA Todaypreviews next Monday’s argument inAssociation for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, in which the Court is considering whether human genes are patentable.
• Kathryn Marchocki ofThe New Hampshire Union Leaderreports on a visit by retired Justice David Souter to the Manchester courthouse in which he tried his first case forty-six years ago yesterday.