Weekly Roundup – February 6, 2015

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If the Supreme Court rules against Obamacare in the law’s second court appearance this spring, problems could arise not just for the President but for some Republican states as well.

In The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse argues that if the justices destroy Obamacare this time, they will be endangering the legitimacy of the Court.

Justice Kagan discussed the Supreme Court bar, whether justices should attend the State of the Union address, and law schools on a recent visit to Northwestern University School of Law.

Justice Scalia is the subject of a new play titled The Originalist, put on by a Washington, D.C.–based theater company.

Speaking to students at Georgetown, Justice Ginsburg named 2010’s Citizen United decision, which has led to an influx in campaign spending by corporations, as the one ruling from the last ten years that she would most like to see overturned.

Following on last week’s decision to stay the execution of three Oklahoma inmates, the Supreme Court this week did the same for Texas inmate Lester Bower, who has been on death row for 30 years.

Bobby Chen, the litigant without lawyer or money who went missing in December, has resurfaced and is attempting to revive his case at the Supreme Court.

On Slate’s new Supreme Court podcast, “Amicus,” Dahlia Lithwick talks with professors Sonja West and RonNell Andersen Jones about the issue of cameras in the courtroom.

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