Monday round-up
on Oct 20, 2014 at 7:17 am
Most of the weekend coverage of the Court focused on the announcement, which came shortly before dawn on Saturday morning, that the Court would not block Texas from implementing its new voter ID law. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented from that order, in an opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Lyle Denniston covered the order for this blog; other coverage came from Adam Liptak of The New York Times and Scott Neuman of NPR, while in analysis for the Los Angeles Times, David Savage looked at the relationship between Saturday’s order and the Court’s campaign finance jurisprudence. Commentary on the Court’s order came from Kenneth Jost at Jost on Justice and from Rick Hasen at Slate, while at his Election Law Blog Hasen discussed the possible reasons why Justice Stephen Breyer did not join the dissent. In another post, Hasen transcribed remarks by Ginsburg about the Texas order in an interview with NPR’s Nina Totenberg.
In other remarks in her recent interview transcribed at the Election Law Blog, Ginsburg discussed the Court’s announcement two weeks ago that it would not review any of the petitions involving challenges to state bans on same-sex marriage, telling Totenberg that there was no need for the Court to step in in light of the lack of a circuit split on the question. And at ACSblog, Eric Segall applauded the denial of review, arguing that “[t]he course the Court adopted . . . increases the chances that when marriage equality for everyone finally arrives, it will be here to stay.”
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- Elsewhere at his Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen described Joan Biskupic’s new book on Justice Sonia Sotomayor as a “must-read.”
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