The Washington Post has a particularly detailed article on Chief Justice John Roberts’ seizure yesterday, including information on his prior episode and interviews with neurologists.
Louis Fisher and David Gray Adler exhort Americans to remember that the Supreme Court’s decisions do not necessarily confer “finality or supremacy.” Instead, they argue, contributions to constitutional law must come from “Congress, the executive branch, the 50 states with their own constitutions and the people themselves.”
Rick Hasen at Election Law has posted an abstract for and a link to his paper on the sharp pendulum swing that the Court has seen “away from Supreme Court deference to campaign finance regulation toward perhaps the greatest period of deregulation” since before the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act.
Warren Watson outcries the implications of Morse v. Frederick for student speech rights and details some lawmakers’ efforts to pass laws that ensure free-expression rights to student journalists.
In the Christian Science Monitor, Lilly Ledbetter, the plaintiff in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, offers her take on the case and exhorts Congress to pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
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