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Thursday round-up

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Briefly:

  • For The Washington Post, Robert Barnes writes that [d]ifferences between the Trump administration and the Obama administration will be front and center in the most important cases on the Supreme Courts docket this fall.
  • At Rolling Stone, Andrew Cohen draws from recent Supreme Court death-penalty cases to consider how Chief Justice John Roberts and the courts newest justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, might approach an appeal by federal-death-row inmate Alfred Bourgeois, who say[s] he cannot be executed because he is intellectually disabled, in the wake of the administrations announcement that it will begin executing federal prisoners once again.
  • At the Florida Court Review, John Cavaliere looks at the stay applications and cert petitions filed by Florida death-row inmate Gary Bowles, who is scheduled to be executed tonight unless the Supreme Court intervenes.

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Recommended Citation: Edith Roberts, Thursday round-up, SCOTUSblog (Aug. 22, 2019, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/08/thursday-round-up-489/