Thursday round-up
on Mar 3, 2016 at 8:43 am
Yesterday’s oral arguments in the challenge to Texas’s abortion regulations dominate today’s news coverage. Molly Runkle rounded up early coverage for this blog, while I covered the argument for my own blog in Plain English. Other coverage comes from NPR’s Nina Totenberg, Daniel Fisher of Forbes, and Danielle Blevins for Talk Media News and on the Thom Hartmann Show (video). And in Supreme Court Brief (subscription required), Tony Mauro and Mike Sacks identify “six key moments” in the argument.
Commentary on yesterday’s arguments comes from Michael Dorf at Dorf on Law, Garrett Epps in The Atlantic, Ruthann Robson at Constitutional Law Prof Blog, and Bill Blum at truthdig.
Other coverage and commentary focus on Tuesday’s decisions. Evan Lee covered the decision in Lockhart v. United States for this blog, while in The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required), Tony Mauro notes that in the case, Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor “both appeared to channel the late Justice Antonin Scalia with citations from his 2012 book about statutory interpretation.”
Ronald Mann covered the decision in the ERISA case Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. for this blog, while Lisa Soronen weighed in on the decision at the NCSL Blog; Timothy Verrall and Hera Arsen do the same at the Ogletree Deakins blog.
Briefly:
- In Supreme Court Brief (subscription required), Mauro reports on Tuesday’s service remembering the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
- In her column for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse looks at the “new era” at the Court in the wake of Justice Scalia’s death.
- At The Huffington Post, Cristian Farias reports on the day that the lights went out at the Court.
- At Cato at Liberty, Ilya Shapiro urges the Court to grant review in Florida Bankers Association v. U.S. Department of Treasury and “reverse the lower court’s dangerous precedent,” arguing that “[y]ou shouldn’t need to wait until the government attempts to enforce a penalty against you before being able to challenge it.”
- In another post at Cato at Liberty, Shapiro and Jayme Weber urge the Court to grant review in a challenge to Seattle’s minimum wage law, arguing that “[w]hat has received less attention is the way in which this ordinance distinguishes between businesses—and discriminates against interstate commerce.”
- Liberty Blog weighed in on Monday’s cert. denials in American Farm Bureau v. EPA, California Building Industry Association v. San Jose, and Sensational Smiles v. Mullen.
- In an op-ed for The Hill, Neil Siegel argues that “the conduct of Senate Republicans is not required by the principle they say they are following. Even if they consider a nomination now, the American people will still likely decide in 2016 which political party will control not just the presidency and the Congress, but the court as well in the years ahead.”
