Friday round-up

By Amy Howe
on Mar 20, 2015 at 6:12 am

In her column for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse urges the Court to grant review in Frank v. Walker, the challenge to Wisconsin’s voter identification law, which the Justices will consider at their Conference today.  At his Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen discusses the absence of an amicus brief from the federal government at the cert. stage. 

Briefly:

• In The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin previews next week’s oral arguments in Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, the challenge to Texas’s specialty license-plate scheme.
• At the Ogletree Deakins blog, Hera Arsen anticipates the Court’s decision in Mach Mining v. EEOC, and concludes that “[t]here seems to be some agreement among the justices . . . ‘there should be judicial review,’ but “‘the issue is how much” and whether a new standard of review will . . . ‘give some teeth to judicial review.’”

 [Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys contribute to this blog in various capacities, is among the counsel to the petitioner in Mach Mining.  However, I am not affiliated with the firm.]

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