Thursday round-up
on Aug 6, 2015 at 1:02 am
Briefly:
- In The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required), Tony Mauro reports on the Justices’ overseas summer travel, including a trip by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to South Korea.
- In another story for the Supreme Court Brief (subscription or registration required), Mauro highlights a new article on secret photos of the Court in action.
- At The Huffington Post, Dhyana Taylor observes that “[t]his week the women of the United States Supreme Court will celebrate the anniversaries of their entrance onto the highest court in the land.”
- In a column for Forbes, George Leef looks ahead to possible vacancies on the Court and argues that “the most effective way of identifying nominees who won’t turn tail when pressured to vote for unconstitutional power is to find judges who have expressed a coherent philosophy favoring liberty.”
- In his column for Bloomberg View, Noah Feldman criticizes a recent “friend of the Court” brief filed in a securities fraud case, urging the Court not to “take the bait, or the case” because it “doesn’t, and shouldn’t, engage in what it calls error correction, except maybe in death penalty cases.”
- In the Daily Report (subscription or registration required), R. Robin McDonald reports that “[e]ight veteran prosecutors” have filed an amicus brief in support of the death-row inmate in Foster v. Chatman, in which the Court will hear oral argument in the upcoming Term.
- At his Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen discusses his draft article on the Roberts Court and election law.
- In another post, Hasen analyzes a new decision by the Fifth Circuit that he describes as “a great (but not complete) victory for those challenging Texas’s strict voter id law”; he adds that it is “quite possible that Texas will try to take this case en banc to the full 5th Circuit, or perhaps to the Supreme Court.”
- In The Economist, Steven Mazie looks at a recent decision by the Eighth Circuit holding that a North Dakota law which prohibited abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected is unconstitutional, noting that it “closed with a five-page lament: North Dakota’s law may be inconsistent with Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood, but the Supreme Court should ‘re-evaluate its jurisprudence.’”
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