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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

“Supreme Court Blocks North Carolina From Restoring Strict Voting Law”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court won’t let North Carolina use strict voting law.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court denies North Carolina appeal to enforce its voter ID rules.”

Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Blocks Stricter Voting Rules in North Carolina; A deadlocked court turns back request to revive rules blocked by lower court.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court rejects bid to reinstate North Carolina voting limits.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “U.S. High Court Won’t Revive North Carolina Voter-ID Law.”

Ariane de Vogue and Dan Berman of CNN.com report that “Supreme Court won’t reinstate North Carolina voter ID law.”

Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post reports that “Supreme Court Denies North Carolina’s Plea To Restore Swath Of Voting Restrictions; The state won’t be able to enforce them come Election Day.”

And at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center, Lyle Denniston has a post titled “North Carolina limits on voting remain on hold.”

Posted at 11:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“US court upholds ban on gun sales to marijuana card holders”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal government ban on the sale of guns to medical marijuana card holders does not violate the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 3:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“US high court refuses to reinstate North Carolina voter ID”: The Associated Press has this report.

And Rick Hasen — en route to Philadelphia, where a certain two law bloggers will be meeting for dinner tomorrow evening — has a post at his “Election Law Blog” titled “#SCOTUS 4-4 Tie in NC Voting Case Leaves Lower Court Ruling in Place and Shows Us Power of Appeals Courts Post-Scalia.”

You can view today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

Posted at 3:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“We Need Abortion Laws Based on Science”: Ushma D. Upadhyay has this op-ed in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 2:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood: Oliver Stone wanted a hit — and the chance to put America’s most iconic dissident onscreen; The subject wanted veto power; The Russian lawyer wanted someone to option the novel he’d written; The American lawyer just wanted the whole insane project to go away; Somehow a film got made.” Irina Aleksander will have this article in this upcoming Sunday’s edition of The New York Times Magazine.

Posted at 2:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“North Carolina Republicans Accused of Dodging Order to Fix Election Rules”: Michael Wines has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 2:18 PM by Howard Bashman