Thursday round-up
on Nov 5, 2020 at 10:34 am
The Supreme Court heard nearly two hours of oral argument Wednesday in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the high-profile case that involves a clash between religious rights and government efforts to prevent discrimination against same-sex couples. A majority of the court seemed sympathetic to the religious challengers in the case, but the justices appeared to be searching for a way to issue a narrow, rather than a sweeping, ruling.
Meanwhile, with the presidential election results still too close to call in several states and many ballots still being counted, President Donald Trump’s campaign is seeking to intervene at the Supreme Court in a dispute over late-arriving ballots in Pennsylvania. The justices declined to intervene in the dispute before Election Day, but a petition from Pennsylvania Republicans asking the court to get involved now remains pending. The justices ordered state officials to file a response to the Trump campaign’s motion to intervene by 5 p.m. EST on Thursday.
Here’s a round-up of other Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web:
- Trump wants the courts to stop the counting. He’s going to be disappointed. (Edward Foley, The Washington Post)
- Supreme Court Voices Skepticism of Philadelphia Nondiscrimination Ordinance Versus Catholic Agency (Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal)
- At Supreme Court, Justices Consider Religion, LGBTQ Rights (Nina Totenberg, NPR)
- Supreme Court Leans Toward Support for Catholic Agency in Foster-Care Case (Mark Walsh, Education Week)
- Stigma and the Oral Argument in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (Leslie Griffin, Verdict)
- On Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, Both Sides Miss the Most Important Point (Nancy Polikoff, The Imprint)
- The Supreme Court Is Now 6-3. What Does That Mean? (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times)
- A Weakened Supreme Court Needs a Code of Ethics (Veronia Root Martinez, Bloomberg Law)
- Legal Docket – A challenge to qualified immunity (Mary Reichard, The World and Everything in It podcast)
- Justices Should Review NH’s State Telework Tax Case (Edward Zelinsky, Law360)
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