Round-Up

Now available at the ACSBlog are part I (“Equality and Liberty”), part II (“Religion Clauses”), and part III (“Access to Justice”) in an ongoing series on the current state of the SCOTUS term. In addition, guest blogger Anurima Bhargava, Assistant Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, has this post reflecting on Brown and the forthcoming opinions in this Term’s school cases.

Today, the Wall Street Journal has this editorial on the bill that amends the law at issue in the Davenport v. WEA union fee cases.

Cass R. Sunstein had this piece (registration req’d) in The New Republic discussing the absence of liberal visionaries on the current Court; Jack Balkin reponds here at Balkinization; and Ilya Somin weighs in here at Volokh Conspiracy.

Yesterday, Robert Levy had this editorial in The Hill advising the DC government to seek Supreme Court review of the Parker opinion, which overturned the DC handgun ban on Second Amendment grounds. This article from Carol D. Leoning of the Washington Post discusses DC Mayor Adrian Fenty’s difficult dilemma in deciding whether to petition the Supreme Court.

Finally, Rick Hasen has this post at Election Law Blog about a forthcoming cert. petition in Crawford, the Indiana voter ID case.

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