Thursday round-up
on Dec 18, 2014 at 6:25 am
Although the Court is officially in recess until January, business continues there. Yesterday the Court turned down Arizona’s application to allow it to deny driver’s licenses to “Dreamers” — young adults who came to this country illegally as children — if they have permits allowing them to have jobs here. Lyle Denniston reported on the case and the Court’s order for this blog; other coverage comes from Howard Fischer of Capitol Media Services (via the Arizona Capitol Times) here and here.
Briefly:
- Business Insider’s Erin Fuchs (via Yahoo! Finance) previews EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, in which the Court will consider whether the retail clothing chain violated federal law when it refused to hire a Muslim teenager who wears a headscarf.
- At the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy lists “14 Things We Learned About Money in Politics in 2014” and predicts that her top item – the Court’s decision in McCutcheon v. FEC – “may presage even more deregulation of campaign finance next year.”
- In the wake of Monday’s decision in Heien v. North Carolina, in which the Court held that a police officer’s reasonable mistake of law can provide the reasonable suspicion that justifies a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment, Garrett Epps of The Atlantic recounts his own encounter with police and argues that “courts are in business to instruct the state about lines it should not cross. The Court this week passed up a chance to do that.”
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