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Nancy S. Marder of Chicago-Kent wrote a guest post for us on Wednesday about Foster v. Chatman and race discrimination in peremptory challenges.

The Daily Progress and The National Law Journal covered an event Justice Sotomayor attended at the University of Richmond School of Law in which the Justice discussed how she nearly pulled out of the confirmation process.

Last Friday’s announcement that the Court will review a challenge to a Texas law regulating abortion clinics has caused a ripple of opinion. In The Economist, Steven Mazie wrote “the constitutional and political stakes are huge . . . . The ruling will amplify concerns about the justices Barack Obama’s successor will appoint to a bench that, a year from now, will be occupied by three octogenarians.” See also further coverage from NPR and Reuters.

The Court recently decided, in Mullenix v. Luna, that “a police officer should have been granted qualified immunity when he shot at a car whose driver had led police on a high speed chase to stop it instead of waiting to see if spike strips worked.” An analysis is available at the NCSL Blog.

Justice Scalia tells students at Georgetown University that the Supreme Court’s decisions protecting gay rights were not rooted in the Constitution and their logic could justify judicial protection of the rights of child molesters.  See the report in the New York Times.

Simon Lazarus pointed out a “stealth corporate takeover” of the Court in The New Republic.