Evening round-up

This afternoon the Court grantedcertiorariin five merits cases, including the Proposition 8 and DOMA cases.

Lyle Denniston of this blog covers the Courts same-sex marriage grants, as does Greg Stohr of Bloomberg. Additional coverage is available from the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, NBC, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press,CBS News, Politico, Reuters, Fox News, the Christian Science Monitor, Slate, the Blog of Legal Times [h/t Howard Bashman], NPRs The Two-Way, and the WSJ Law Blog.