Weekly Roundup – May 22, 2015

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On Monday, the Supreme Court decided multiple cases, siding with a policeman who shot a mentally ill woman in San Francisco and against the state of Maryland on its personal income tax scheme.

Natalie Portman is not the only one portraying a Supreme Court justice these days. Slate looks at new movies and plays about Justices Ginsburg, Scalia, and Thomas.

Meet Art Lien, the artist behind many recent iconic Supreme Court sketches.

In a speech last week, Justice John Paul Stevens criticized Major League Baseball’s exemption from antitrust laws, arguing that “it simply makes no sense to treat organized baseball differently from other professional sports.”

With its fiftieth anniversary this spring, Jill Lepore looks at the Court’s decision in Griswold v. Connecticut and contrasts women’s rights and same-sex marriage cases.

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