Friday round-up

Amy Howe reviews “RBG,” the new documentary about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that opens today, for this blog; her review first appeared at Howe on the Court. More reactions to the film come from Jocelyn Noveck at the Associated Press, who calls it “an engrossing, entertaining and unabashedly adoring new documentary about the now-legendary justice,” Robert Barnes for The Washington Post and A.O. Scott for The New York Times.

Briefly:

• Greg Stohr at Bloomberg reports that “[f]or the second straight year, [Justice Anthony] Kennedy, 81, is the focus of retirement speculation as the court approaches the late-June end of its term,” noting that “[a] retirement by the court’s swing justice would … drop a political bomb into what is already one of the country’s most divisive eras since the Civil War.”
• For The Washington Post, Robert Barnes recaps the “blockbuster cases” awaiting decisions this term, remarking that although “[i]t’s not surprising that such cases are taking time,” “the court has also been slow in deciding less controversial matters.”
• Counting to 5 (podcast) features a discussion of “three newly granted cases for next term, and … a broad overview of where we stand in the current term: the opinions we’ve seen so far and the cases we’re still waiting on.”
• In the latest episode of the Heritage Foundation’s SCOTUS 101 podcast, Elizabeth Slattery and Tiffany Bates talk to Sheldon Gilbert of the Institute for Justice “about why it’s time for SCOTUS to overrule the infamous Slaughterhouse Cases.”
• At Fix the Court, Gabe Roth introduces the group’s third annual report on the justices’ recusals, which “once again lays out the reasoning behind the justices’ self-disqualifications.”

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