Weekly Roundup – May 1, 2015

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In addition to the return of Obamacare in King v. Burwell, the other highly-anticipated case this spring was on the issue of same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges. See below for some of the many takes on the case, which the Court heard on Tuesday:

Do pretrial inmates have the same constitutional rights as people on the outside? Slate considers Monday’s Kingsley v. Hendrickson case.

Director Chris Schmidt took a look at another big case this week in which the Court considered a lethal injection protocol used in Oklahoma executions.

The Washington Post reflects further on what the lethal injection decision could mean for the death penalty in the United States.

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