Monday round-up
on Aug 1, 2016 at 5:51 am
Briefly:
- The Southeastern Legal Foundation discusses the amicus brief that it filed urging the Justices “to reverse the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) backward interpretation of its own rule which allows pilots to post pre-planned flights on old-fashioned bulletin boards but not virtual ones.”
- Giles Edwards of BBC News interviews Abigail Fisher, who challenged the University of Texas at Austin’s consideration of race in its undergraduate admissions process.
- At The Hill, Lydia Wheeler reports on what a President Hillary Clinton’s short list for Supreme Court nominations might look like.
- At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman reviews the cert. petitions filed in 2016 by some leading appellate law firms.
- In USA Today, Richard Wolf reports on signs that the Court’s “defense of religious freedom may be on the decline.”
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