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SCOTUSblog, Wednesday, November 14th, 2018, round-up
Last edited Wed Nov 14, 2018, 11:59 AM - Edit history (1)
Edith Roberts Editor
Posted Wed, November 14th, 2018 6:45 am
Wednesday round-up
Yesterday the court released orders from last week’s conference, adding two cases to its merits docket. Amy Howe covers the order list for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court. For The Washington Post, Gregory Schneider and Robert Barnes report that in Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill, “{t}he U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue of redistricting in Virginia, agreeing to hear an appeal filed by Republican legislators after a lower court’s ruling that 11 House of Delegates districts must be redrawn to correct racial gerrymandering.” In a guest post at the Election Law Blog, Michael Parsons suggests that “{t}he conservative wing of the Court may see this case as a good vehicle to emphasize just how reticent courts should be to step in and police these boundaries generally.” At ThinkProgress, Ian Millhiser writes that “{i}n a sensible world, Bethune-Hill would have nothing whatsoever to do with the Affordable Care Act,” but that the case “also presents a difficult issue regarding when non-parties to a federal lawsuit may appeal lower court decisions to a higher authority,” {a}nd this technical question could have tremendous implications for Obamacare.”
Briefly:
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Recommended Citation: Edith Roberts, Wednesday round-up, SCOTUSblog (Nov. 14, 2018, 6:45 AM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/11/wednesday-round-up-448/
Posted Wed, November 14th, 2018 6:45 am
Wednesday round-up
Yesterday the court released orders from last week’s conference, adding two cases to its merits docket. Amy Howe covers the order list for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court. For The Washington Post, Gregory Schneider and Robert Barnes report that in Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill, “{t}he U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue of redistricting in Virginia, agreeing to hear an appeal filed by Republican legislators after a lower court’s ruling that 11 House of Delegates districts must be redrawn to correct racial gerrymandering.” In a guest post at the Election Law Blog, Michael Parsons suggests that “{t}he conservative wing of the Court may see this case as a good vehicle to emphasize just how reticent courts should be to step in and police these boundaries generally.” At ThinkProgress, Ian Millhiser writes that “{i}n a sensible world, Bethune-Hill would have nothing whatsoever to do with the Affordable Care Act,” but that the case “also presents a difficult issue regarding when non-parties to a federal lawsuit may appeal lower court decisions to a higher authority,” {a}nd this technical question could have tremendous implications for Obamacare.”
Briefly:
• The Harvard Law Review releases its annual Supreme Court issue, focusing on October Term 2017.
• At Bloomberg, Greg Stohr reports that “{i}n the five weeks since Brett Kavanaugh became the newest justice after a divisive confirmation fight, the court’s members are going out of their way to offer public displays of collegiality during arguments,” noting that “{h}ow long the feel-good era lasts may depend on how contentious the court’s docket becomes.”
• Sean Fine reports for the Toronto Globe and Mail that, during a public discussion with a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Justice Elena Kagan told the audience that “{t}he partisan process for judicial nomination hearings in the United States is harmful to the Supreme Court.”
We rely on our readers to send us links for our round-up. If you have or know of a recent (published in the last two or three days) article, post, podcast, or op-ed relating to the Supreme Court that you’d like us to consider for inclusion in the round-up, please send it to roundup [at] scotusblog.com. Thank you!
Recommended Citation: Edith Roberts, Wednesday round-up, SCOTUSblog (Nov. 14, 2018, 6:45 AM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/11/wednesday-round-up-448/
