Wednesday round-up
on Sep 23, 2015 at 6:36 am
Briefly:
- In his column for Bloomberg View, Noah Feldman discusses recent criticism of Chief Justice John Roberts by Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz; Feldman contends that “Cruz’s repudiation of Roberts, a fellow product of the conservative legal establishment, is just the latest confirmation of an astonishing process: The chief justice, a lifelong conservative who hasn’t abandoned his views, is nevertheless being abandoned by conservatives — without being embraced by liberals.”
- With the Court scheduled to consider the case of an Ohio death row inmate who argues that it was “basically impossible” for one Ohio Supreme Court justice to vote against capital punishment in his case while she was receiving praise during her election campaign for supporting death sentences, Reuters has published a special report indicating that elected state supreme court justices reverse death sentences at less than half the rate of those who are appointed.
- At the Petri-Flom Center’s Bill of Health Blog, Gregory Lipper continues his series on the Eighth Circuit’s decision striking down the federal government’s accommodation for non-profit religious groups that who object to the birth control mandate; he observes that, with courts in the past having declined to rule that “‘employers should be exempt because the government can make up for the loss of compensation,” the “already-accommodated contraception objectors have no basis to demand more here.”
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