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ACSblog recapped the two death penalty cases the Court has decided so far this term: Hurst v. Florida and Kansas v. Carr/Kansas v. Gleason. “What do these two different results in Hurst and Carr mean for the two death penalty cases currently pending before the Supreme Court?” asks writer Jessica Pezley. “The future of the death penalty at the Supreme Court is anything but certain.”
With Oyez founder Jerry Goldman set to retire this spring, The National Law Journal reports on the future of this “widely used resource for the audio of U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments and other information about the court.”
Justice Sotomayer’s return home to participate in an Evening of Conversation at the Bronx Defenders was covered by the New Yorker.
On Wednesday, Chief Justice Roberts said that “partisan extremism is damaging the public’s perception of the role of the Supreme Court” as it forces Justices to “play” rather than referee political process. Coverage by The Washington Post.
In the New York Times, Linda Greenhouse wrote about the forthcoming United States v. Texas, “a case that should have been tossed out of Federal District Court” but now has its stakes “heightened enormously.” Further coverage from Constitution Daily.
Legal historian David Garrow wrote an op-ed in which he expressed concern about the judges—including Supreme Court Justices—getting too old to do their jobs. The federal judiciary “is simply too important to leave in the hands of old fogeys,” he warns.