“Neil Gorsuch is gunning for most irreverent Supreme Court justice”: Ephrat Livni of Quartz has this report.
“Abortion case out of Louisiana a first test for Trump’s Supreme Court justices”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.
Elizabeth Crisp of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana has an article headlined “Supreme Court to take up Louisiana abortion law Wednesday morning; Here’s what to expect.”
Caroline Kelly of CNN reports that “Future of Roe v. Wade in spotlight as Supreme Court considers Louisiana abortion access case.”
Todd Ruger and Sandhya Raman of Roll Call report that “Supreme Court revisits abortion issue over Louisiana law; 2014 law is latest inflection point for the cultural, political and legal currents on abortion.”
Melissa Jeltsen of HuffPost has an article headlined “The Supreme Court Case That Could Gut Roe v. Wade: The future of abortion rights is on the line in a Louisiana case headed to the justices.”
Kate Smith of CBS News reports that “Roe v. Wade might not matter after Supreme Court decides this case.”
Chloe Atkins of NBC News reports that “After shift to the right under Trump, Supreme Court to hear major abortion case from Louisiana; The outcome is uncertain following the president’s nominees Gorsuch and Kavanaugh joining the bench.”
Tucker Higgins of CNBC reports that “Supreme Court abortion case tests Trump’s campaign promise to overturn Roe v. Wade.”
Tessa Berenson of Time magazine has an article headlined “The Supreme Court Is Hearing a New Case on Abortion. The Decision Could Impact Women for a Generation.”
Emily Shugerman of The Daily Beast has an article headlined “Here’s What’s at Stake if Supreme Court Upholds Louisiana Abortion Law; The law says abortion providers must have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic; That’s trickier than it sounds.”
Today’s broadcast of WBUR’s “Here & Now” contained an audio segment titled “Supreme Court To Hear Arguments On Major Abortion Case” featuring Dahlia Lithwick.
In commentary, online at The New York Times, law professor Mary Ziegler has an essay titled “The Heartbeat Bills Were Never the Real Threat to Abortion Rights; The most sophisticated opponents of abortion have long been playing a much subtler game — and we’re about to see it come to fruition.”
And online at The Washington Post, Ziegler has an essay titled “Supreme Court will consider whether states can ‘protect’ women from abortion. What’s behind that argument? Louisiana is saying that clinics should have no right to challenge state regulations on the procedure.”
Online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has a jurisprudence essay titled “Ladies’ Week at the Supreme Court Again: Yes, there’s an important abortion case being heard this week; But women lose when we focus too much on individual cases.”
And also online at Slate, Julie F. Kay and Kathryn Kolbert have a jurisprudence essay titled “The Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision Could Reshape American Jurisprudence; The court must decide if it’s willing to sacrifice bedrock legal principles in the rush to ban abortions.”
“Supreme Court Divided on Trump’s Power to Fire Head of Consumer Bureau; The justices seemed split along familiar lines in a case challenging the independence of the director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.
Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court considers options in reviewing consumer bureau’s structure.”
David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court weighs giving presidents more power over semi-independent agencies.”
Jess Bravin and Yuka Hayashi of The Wall Street Journal report that “Supreme Court Considers Consumer Agency’s Structure, Independence; Case involves president’s power to remove head of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”
Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court struggles with independence of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”
Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court questions legality of Elizabeth Warren’s CFPB.”
Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press reports that “High court debates presidential power on Super Tuesday.”
Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung of Reuters report that “U.S. Supreme Court conservatives question consumer agency structure.”
Greg Stohr and Robert Schmidt of Bloomberg News report that “Supreme Court Seems Inclined to Curb CFPB’s Independence.”
Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “Justices appear to be split as court decides fate of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”
Bill Mears of Fox News reports that “Divided Supreme Court takes on executive power and limits of independent federal agency authority.”
Tucker Higgins of CNBC reports that “Supreme Court looks likely to weaken Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but leave it standing.”
Harper Neidig of The Hill reports that “Justices spar over fate of consumer agency.”
Tim Ryan of Courthouse News Service reports that “Supreme Court Readies Kill Shot for CFPB Term Rules.”
Pamela King of Greenwire reports that “Fight over financial oversight places FERC in the crosshairs.”
On this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Weaken Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”
In commentary, online at USA Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has an essay titled “Pro-business Supreme Court shouldn’t defang Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; The CFPB shows just what government can accomplish when it is freed from the corruption of corporate influence.”
Online at The New York Times, Jane Manners and Lev Menand have an essay titled “Will the Supreme Court Protect Agencies From Trump’s Reach? A case before the court could expand the president’s power to remove their leaders.”
And Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has a post titled “CFPB defender offers Supreme Court an exit from constitutional issues.”
You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, No. 19-7.
“The Wall Some Texans Want to Build Against Abortion; Around the country, a ‘sanctuary city’ movement is growing on the right and the left, as people seek to keep out views they don’t agree with, legal or not”: Dionne Searcey of The New York Times has this report.
“Another Obamacare Test Looms for Chief Justice John Roberts”: Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Top Patent Court Urged to Tackle More Full Bench Do-Overs”: Perry Cooper of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “The Federal Circuit is facing new calls to hear cases as a full court to clarify the law on hot patent issues.”
“An Abortion Clinic’s Fate Before a Transformed Supreme Court; The court will soon hear arguments in its first major abortion case since the retirement of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy; It could leave Louisiana with a single abortion clinic”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.
“Things We Haven’t Seen Before at the Outset of a Roberts Court Term”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.
“Supreme Court’s Docket Is a Super Tuesday Reminder; Abortion, immigration and corporate power are all on the justices’ calendar this week, and for the next 4 to 40 years”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
“Justice Gorsuch Would Be ‘Grateful’ if You’d Answer His Question; ‘If we could avoid disparaging our colleagues and just answer my question, I would be grateful,’ Gorsuch said at one point in Tuesday’s arguments in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau case”: Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.
