Friday round-up
At the Brennan Center, Andrew Cohen looks at the just-ended Term and argues that what it “really represents, apart from the sum of its decisions and orders, is a hinge in the Court’s history.” At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman continues his review of the Term, this time focusing on how law firms fared at the Court.
Briefly:
- Fresh Air’s Terry Gross interviews Linda Greenhouse, the author (with Michael Graetz) of a new book on the Burger Court.
- Writing for Greenwire, Robin Bravender reports that the “Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative nonprofit that’s on a roll with Supreme Court victories, has hired a new president and CEO.”
- Headnotes, the online forum of The University of Minnesota Law Review, hosts a symposium on Justice Antonin Scalia’s impact on the Court.
- At Hosts of Error, Will Rosenzweig looks back at last week’s decision striking down two provisions in a Texas law regulating abortion and in particular the principal dissent’s focus on procedural, rather than substantive, issues; he suggests that such a focus “is an acknowledgment that the tide is turning on public opinion and the battle must be fought on different ground.”
- In The Economist, Steven Mazie concludes that the Court’s ruling in the case of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell “is a relief not only to Mr McDonnell and his wife but to untold politicians across the country who may have used their offices to pursue questionable deals and exchanges.”
- In another column for The Economist, Mazie analyzes the Court’s denial of review in the challenge to a Washington state regulation that requires pharmacies to provide drugs and devices to patients even if the owners object to doing so; he contends that the “fate of the case sheds a clear light on the transformed political landscape of religious liberty in America.”
- At his Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen considers how an attack on “super PACs” by a “liberal dream team” might fare at a post-Scalia Court.
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