“Supreme Court debates what judges must find before sentencing juveniles to life without parole”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.
Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press reports that “High court could halt move toward leniency for kids who kill.”
Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court weighs scope of ruling that limited juvenile sentences.”
And John Kruzel of The Hill reports that “Supreme Court weighs limits to juvenile life sentences.”
“A Philly fight over faith and foster parents heads to the Supreme Court, pitting religious freedom against LGBTQ rights”: Jeremy Roebuck has this article in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“Supreme Court Considers How to Decide if Teenagers Should Serve Life Without Parole; The justices considered precedents that said only ‘permanently incorrigible’ juvenile offenders ought be sentenced to die in prison”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.
You can access via this link the transcript and audio of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Jones v. Mississippi, No. 18-1259.
“Religious conservatives hopeful new Supreme Court majority will redefine religious liberty precedents”: Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post has this report.
“Supreme Court takes up religious freedom, anti-gay discrimination laws in Philadelphia foster care case; The dispute is the first of this term’s blockbuster cases to be heard with Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the court”: Pete Williams of NBC News has this report.
“Supreme court to hear Obamacare case that may lead to 20m losing insurance; Court will hear a case a week after election day that could result in the law being overturned — or only one provision eliminated”: Jessica Glenza of The Guardian (UK) has this report.
“Some Republicans feel protected by 6-3 Supreme Court, even if Biden wins; ‘We have no fears because there’s a conservative Supreme Court now,’ one Trump supporter in Arizona says after 48-year-old Amy Coney Barrett’s appointment”: Sahil Kapur of NBC News has this report.
“Any bipartisan commission’s effort to reform the Supreme Court will fail”: Ronald L. Trowbridge has this essay online at The Hill.
“The Court Should Reject Religious Supremacy in Philadelphia but it Won’t”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”
“New Lawsuit to Halt Ballot Cures in Pennsylvania Could Preview Trump’s Postelection Strategy”: Law professor Richard L. Hasen has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“Bush v. Gore: Lessons from a Litigated Election; We can hardly entrust the outcome of presidential elections to the comparative skills of rival lawyers, even if it’s only once every twenty years.” Robert R. Gasaway has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.
“Our Parents Are Gay. Are Our Families Good Enough for the Supreme Court?” Isaac Green and Malina Simard-Halm have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“The most important legal question looming over the election; Lots of voters followed the rules that were in place at the time when they voted; The Supreme Court may still disenfranchise them”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.
“LGBT and religious rights collide in U.S. Supreme Court foster-care case”: Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung of Reuters have this report.
