“Defining ‘One Person, One Vote’: The Supreme Court Returns to the Political Thicket.” Evan Bernick has this blog entry online at The Huffington Post.
“A Republican Can Kill Obamacare. Will He?” Francis Wilkinson has this essay online at Bloomberg View.
“Birth control case headed to high court; Diocese, others oppose provision in Obamacare”: Dan Majors has this front page article in today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
In today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Aaron Aupperlee has a front page article headlined “High court to hear Western Pennsylvania Obamacare challenges.”
Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman reports that “Oklahoma challengers involved again in challenge to Affordable Care Act.”
The Deseret News reports that “Supreme Court takes on religious freedom challenge to Obamacare — again.”
Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Why Supreme Court is taking up Obamacare contraceptive mandate again; By agreeing Friday to hear a new case on the Obama contraception mandate, the Supreme Court will consider a different aspect of religious freedom and workers’ rights.”
Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post reports that “The Supreme Court Is All Set To Hear The Next ‘Hobby Lobby’ Case; The sequel to the 2014 case involves a group of religious nonprofits that don’t want to sign a form.”
Online at The Atlantic, Emma Green has an article headlined “The Little Sisters of the Poor Are Headed to the Supreme Court; The justices will take on a complicated set of cases related to the birth-control mandate in the Affordable Care Act.” And law professor Garrett Epps has an essay titled “The Affordable Care Act Reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, Again; A group of religious non-profits will challenge contraceptive coverage in a set of cases that echo Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby Stores.”
Online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has a jurisprudence essay titled “The Little Sisters of the Poor Get Their Day at the Supreme Court; Is opting out of part of the Affordable Care Act a religious burden?”
And online at Bloomberg View, Megan McArdle has an essay titled “A Birth-Control Morality Play Comes to Supreme Court.”
“Judge Posner on Judging, Birthright Citizenship, and Precedent”: Josh Blackman has this post at his blog.
I’m looking forward to seeing Josh next week when I will be in Washington, DC from Thursday through Sunday attending the 2015 Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit.
“Argument preview: New woe for class-action lawsuits?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”
