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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

“Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Key Provision of Voting Rights Act; In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the justices grappled with whether there should be a time limit on using race as a factor in carving up voting districts”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court seems open to limiting key section of Voting Rights Act; Key justices suggested new limits on the use of race in redistricting but left unclear how far they might go.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Justices lean toward rejecting race in redistricting, likely boosting GOP in 2026.”

Lydia Wheeler of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Questions Use of Race in Drawing Voting Districts; Justices are re-examining tools for addressing discrimination.”

Maureen Groppe of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court asks if Black voter protections discriminate against White people; The Supreme Court takes on a racially and politically charged case testing a landmark civil rights law.”

Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times report that “Supreme Court poised to redraw part of Voting Rights Act.”

In commentary, The Wall Street Journal has published an editorial titled “Nobody Is ‘Gutting’ the Voting Rights Act; The Supreme Court may overturn its misguided Gingles precedent, not the landmark 1965 law.”

Online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a Jurisprudence essay titled “The Supreme Court Is Poised to Rule That It’s Racist to Remedy Racism.”

And online at Balls and Strikes, Madiba K. Dennie has an essay titled “The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act; The Republican justices already know where they’re going; They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.”

Posted at 9:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“SCOTUS evaluates whether cops need probable cause to enter homes during emergencies; William Trevor Case sought to suppress evidence at trial obtained after officers entered his home, without a warrant, based on concerns that he posed a threat to himself”: Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service has this report.

Posted at 9:37 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judicial Supremacy and American Democracy”: Jonathan F. Mitchell recently had this post at the Democracy Project of NYU Law.

Posted at 9:35 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Says He Might Attend Supreme Court Hearing on Tariffs”: Lauren Dezenski and Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News have this report.

Posted at 8:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Appointees’ Debut Marks Third Circuit’s Rightward Tilt”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “A more conservative Third Circuit debuted at en banc arguments, as two new appointees of President Donald Trump heard their first case.”

Posted at 5:36 PM by Howard Bashman