This week at the Court

On Monday, the state of Texas filed its response to a request to block enforcement of its voter ID law (Veasey v. Abbott, docket 15A999). On Tuesday, both sides in the seven cases on the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate filed opening briefs responding tothe Court’s new suggestions of possible ways to decide those cases (Zubik v. Burwell). The Court is in recess, untilFriday, whenthe Justices will meet for their April 15 Conference; our list of “petitions to watch” for that Conference isavailable here.The April sitting will begin onMonday, April 18; the calendar for that sitting is availablehere.