Monday round-up
on Sep 28, 2015 at 8:10 am
Briefly:
- In the Los Angeles Times, David Savage reports that Chief Justice John Roberts “finds himself in the crosshairs of right-leaning pundits and GOP presidential hopefuls who brand him a disappointment and openly question his conservative credentials because of the one case of the six in which he voted with the court’s liberals.”
- In an op-ed for The New York Times, Jeffrey Fisher argues that the Court should make public the Justices’ votes on cert. petitions; given the Court’s “significant role in shaping so much of our national policy,” he suggests, “it does not seem too much to ask to know which justices are putting which issues on the court’s docket.”
- In the ABA Journal, Debra Cassens Weiss reports on recent remarks by Justice Antonin Scalia suggesting that he “‘wouldn’t be surprised’ if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the death penalty.”
- The Georgetown University Law Center hosted a preview (video) of the upcoming Term, focusing on seven of the major cases that are or could be on the Court’s docket.
- At Jost on Justice, Kenneth Jost discusses the resistance by public officials to the Court’s June decision striking down state bans on same-sex marriage, and he argues that the “discord they have stirred up shows once again the wisdom of trying to keep religion and politics, church and state, apart.”
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