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Today I am happy to present the final SCOTUSblog Stat Pack for October Term 2015. This year, the fifty-page Stat Pack includes information about, among other things, the rate of unanimity, the number of opinions written by each Justice, agreement among different Justices, and how opinions were distributed in each sitting.
Coverage of and commentary on the Court looks back at the Term that just ended. In Los Angeles Times, David Savage reports on the “alliance” between two Justices from California: Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer.
With the close of the Supreme Court’s Term, Don Verrilli has concluded his tenure as Solicitor General. Verrilli has served as the government’s top lawyer at the Court since 2011, arguing a number of landmark cases there.
Misha Tseytlin is Solicitor General of the State of Wisconsin. In a symposium article for this blog posted in advance of the oral argument in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, I explained that for the abortion industry to win this case, the Supreme Court would have to adopt a more searching level of scrutiny for abortion regulations than it has for laws affecting other sorts of businesses.
More coverage relating to Monday’s ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, in which the Court struck down two provisions of a Texas law regulating abortions, comes from NPR’s Nina Totenberg; David Crary of the Associated Press; and Emily Crockett, who reports for Vox on the decision’s effects on similar laws in other states.
This morning the Court issued its three final opinions in argued cases for the Term: Voisine v. United States, holding that a domestic-violence conviction is a misdemeanor crime of violence for purposes of limiting access to firearms; Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, holding that Texas’s
In a straightforward six-two decision in Voisine v. United States, the Court ruled on the last opinion day of the Term that Congress’s 1996 extension of a firearms prohibition to persons convicted of a “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” includes “reckless” state misdemeanor offenses.
Hampton Dellinger is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court retracted congressionally enacted floodgates meant to curb money in politics.
Jessica Pieklo is Vice President of Law and the Courts at Rewire. Nearly sixteen years to the day from the last Supreme Court ruling in support of abortion rights and it is Justice Stephen Breyer, again, leading the push back against state-level abortion restrictions.
Yesterday the Court issued decisions in three cases. In Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, it struck down two provisions of a Texas law regulating abortions.