“We All Must Live With Mitch McConnell’s Proudest Moment”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial that begins, “Remember when the Senate confirmed Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, the veteran federal appeals court judge, to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died suddenly two years ago this month?”
“Supreme Court to Consider Whether Alabama Can Execute Inmate With Dementia; Vernon Madison, convicted of the 1985 murder of a Mobile police officer, now has no memory of the crime”: Jess Bravin has this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“Gun Lake Tribe wins showdown at U.S. Supreme Court”: Jim Harger of MLive Media Group has this report.
Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Supreme Court: Congress properly ended Michigan casino suit.”
Todd Ruger of Roll Call reports that “Supreme Court Backs Congressional Power to Affect Lawsuits; Chief Justice Roberts, Gorsuch dissent in the decision.”
And Barbara Leonard of Courthouse News Service reports that “Divided High Court Backs Act of Congress to Quash Suits.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Patchak v Zinke, No. 16-498, at this link.
“Rod Rosenstein Renews the Call to Find a Federal Prosecutor’s Killer”: Jeffrey Toobin recently had this post online at The New Yorker.
“GOP asks Supreme Court to block new Pennsylvania congressional maps”: Ariane de Vogue and Eric Bradner of CNN.com have this report.
“Barclays asks SCOTUS to clarify post-Halliburton rules for securities class actions”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.
“U.S. top court to mull rules on what voters can wear to polls”: Andrew Chung of Reuters has this report.
“Senate confirms Elizabeth Branch, Trump’s 14th circuit court judge”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.
Tim Ryan of Courthouse News Service reports that “Senate Confirms Former Homeland Security Counsel for 11th Circuit.”.
You can access the official roll call tally of the U.S. Senate‘s vote to confirm Elizabeth L. Branch to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit by a vote of 73-to-23 at this link.
“Resolving the Paradox: How marriage equality paved the way for anti-gay employment discrimination to be ruled illegal.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“Ninth Circuit Committee Begins Workplace Environment Review”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this news release today.
“Lessons for Donald Trump in the Supreme Court’s DACA Order”: Amy Davidson Sorkin has this post online at The New Yorker.
“Free Speech vs. Freedom From Intimidation: The Supreme Court is set to reconsider campaigning at the ballot box; Justice Scalia got it right the first time.” Law professor Richard L. Hasen — author of the “Election Law Blog” — has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“Supreme Court Reviewing Antitrust Claims Against Amex”: Katherine Fan has this post at “The Points Guy” blog.
Update: And Reddit’s Churning page contains a discussion titled “Churning at SCOTUS: transcript of Supreme Court argument in Amex anti-steering rules case.”
“When the Supreme Court Doesn’t Care About Facts: The conservative justices seem prepared to decide Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, a case that could harm public sector unions, without so much as a factual record.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online with The Atlantic.