“Preserving religious freedom in the workplace: Why the Supreme Court should resolve Groff v. DeJoy in line with traditional conceptions of religious freedom.” Adam Unikowsky has this post at his Substack site, “Adam’s Legal Newsletter.”
“Reversing the Legacy of Slaughter-House; A careful examination of the Privileges or Immunities Clause shows what we lost 150 years ago”: Ilan Wurman has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.
“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Calls on Students to Become ‘Champions of Change’ at 2023 Robert L. Levine Distinguished Lecture”: Erin DeGregorio of Fordham Law News has this report.
“Dan Kelly travels the state before Supreme Court election while Janet Protasiewicz is grounded by illness”: Daniel Bice of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.
“With some of my fellow Stanford Law students, there’s no room for argument”: Tess Winston has this op-ed online at The Washington Post.
“Jehovah’s Witness’ suit says she lost state job over refusal to take loyalty oath”: Pamela Manson of UPI had this report back in November 2020.
Today a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this decision reinstating the suit, which a federal district court had dismissed.
“The Most Profound Loss on Campus Isn’t Free Speech. It’s Listening.” Online at The New York Times, columnist Pamela Paul has an essay that begins, “On April 8, 1991, when I was a sophomore at Brown University, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia came to campus to speak.”
“A Chanting of Morrison v. Olson”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.
“Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates make final push in hotly-contested campaign; Justice Dan Kelly and Judge Janet Protasiewicz are making their final appeals to voters amid news of the indictment of former President Donald Trump”: Anya van Wagtendonk and Joe Schulz of Wisconsin Pubic Radio have this report.
Alice Herman and Sam Levine of The Guardian (UK) have an article headlined “‘The dominating issue’: judicial election will decide fate of abortion in Wisconsin; Control of state’s supreme court will ultimately decide fate of 1849 abortion ban that was revived in June, after Roe was overturned.”
Ben Jacobs of Vox has an article headlined “The most important election of 2023 is for the Wisconsin Supreme Court; Why the Wisconsin Supreme Court election could have huge national implications.”
And Daniel Marans of HuffPost reports that “Abortion Rights And Democracy Are On The Line In Wisconsin Court Race; The prospect of a liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has prompted unprecedented spending and national attention.”
“Supreme Court won’t review conviction of Louisiana man sentenced to death for role in prison escape”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.
“Key Senate Dems want Supreme Court funding tied to an ethics code for justices”: Tierney Sneed of CNN has this report.
“Inside Donald Trump’s rocky relationship with the Supreme Court”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.
“How Neil Gorsuch Bucked Trump — And Almost Derailed His Own Nomination”: Vanity Fair magazine has posted online this excerpt from Joan Biskupic’s new book, “Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences.” The book’s official on-sale date is tomorrow.
“The Christian Liberal-Arts School at the Heart of the Culture Wars; Conservatives like Ron DeSantis see Hillsdale College as a model for education nationwide”: Emma Green has this Annals of Education article in the April 10, 2023 issue of The New Yorker.
“The Supreme Importance of Wisconsin’s Election”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link.
“How Long Without Outdoor Exercise Is Too Long for a Prisoner in Solitary? ‘Exercise is a basic human need, and its long-term denial may constitute cruel and unusual punishment,’ said prison officials, who also asserted three years was tolerable; The case could reach the Supreme Court.” Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.
“His obsessive online posts terrorized her. But were they illegal threats? The Supreme Court is to hear a key free-speech case involving the singer Coles Whalen, whose stalker was sent to prison.” Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.
Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.
And in Brown v. Louisiana, No. 22–77, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a dissent, in which Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined, from the denial of certiorari.