Friday round-up

Briefly:

• JURISTand theConstitutional Law Prof Bloghave additional coverage of the Courts denial on Wednesday of an application to preclude Texas from using interim electoral maps in the upcoming November elections. (Cormac also covered this story inyesterdays round-up.)
• AtSlate, Emily Bazelon examines the range of same-sex marriage cases that might be before the Court this Term, arguing that the Court should proceed incrementally and hear one of the more cautious DOMA challenges, rather than hear Californias Proposition 8 case.
• The Associated Press (via TheWashington Post) andC-SPANhave coverage of Justice Kagans visit on Thursday to the University of Richmond Law School, in which she participated in a conversation with the dean, Wendy Perdue.
• Writing for theAssociated Press, Mark Sherman considers the potential impact of the upcoming presidential election on the composition of the Court, including the possible effects of replacing even a single Justice.
• At theCrime and Consequences blog, Kent Scheidegger reports on the Eleventh Circuits decision on remand from the Courts 2010 per curiam opinion in Wellons v. Hall, which remanded the case and instructed the lower court to consider whether the trial judge and jury had engaged in significant misconduct that undermined the petitioners death sentence. After considering the issue, the Eleventh Circuit again upheld the death sentence.
• On Thursday, the Court declined to stay the execution of Robert Wayne Harris, a Texas death row inmate. Harris was executed Thursday evening. Coverage comes fromReuters,AP, andCBS News.
• At the Constitutional Accountability CentersText & History Blog, Simon Lazarus argues that over the last few decades the Court has become aggressively activist in narrowing, undermining, or effectively nullifying an array of statutes.
• The new issue ofThe Nationis dedicated to what its editors characterize as The One Percent Court, featuring articles on a range of topics, including the role of the Court in campaign finance, antitrust law, labor rights, and the broader role that business interests have played recently in the Courts opinions.
• This blogssymposiumon same-sex marriage continues with a contribution byWilliam Eskridge.