Monday round-up

By Amy Howe
on Sep 22, 2014 at 8:07 am

Briefly:

• At BuzzFeed, Chris Geidner discusses the possibility that, after the Justices first consider the seven petitions arising out of challenges to state bans on same-sex marriage at their September 29 Conference, the Court could ask the federal government to file a brief weighing in; he suggests that doing so “could be just the — thus far missing — step the court needs to give it the time to put the pieces in place that it has decided it needs before it takes on” the issue.
• In the Los Angeles Times, David Savage reports that, although Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “is at the height of her influence and public acclaim, . . . she also faces a decision that may be the most consequential of her career: Should she retire when the term ends in June so President Obama can name her successor?”
• At Jost on Justice, Kenneth Jost reviews American Justice 2014: Nine Clashing Visions on the Supreme Court, a new book by Garrett Epps that “profil[es] each justice through the lens of the justice’s most distinctive opinion of the term.”

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