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ISCOTUS Director Christopher Schmidt discusses Melvin Urofsky’s new book, Dissent and the Supreme Court.
Justices in the news: Justice Sotomayor visited Pomona College in California and offer a very personal perspective on life at the Court; Justice Kennedy was at Harvard Law School, where he lamented the current state of the American criminal justice system.
At Knowledge Center, Lisa Soronen examined the impact upcoming SCOTUS cases could have on specific states.
The book Notorious RBG, based on the Tumblr featuring Justice Ginsburg, got some coverage in NPR’s All Things Considered. At ThinkProgress, Ian Millhiser reviewed the book, writing, “Notorious RBG does more than chronicle one woman’s life, it chronicles a time when Americans slayed dragons.”
In anticipation of next week’s oral arguments in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, Justin Sadowsky of Dubitante wrote about “why a pro-Spokeo ruling here . . . would be revolutionary in its breadth.” On Hamilton and Griffin on Rights, commentator Erwin Chemerinsky implored the Court to “reaffirm that Congress, by statute, can create rights, albeit rights that otherwise would not exist, and the infringement of these rights is a sufficient injury for standing.”
Looking ahead to next week’s oral arguments in Torres v. Lynch, Steve Vladeck wrote about how the Court’s response “could significantly either expand or contract the class of state-law convictions that render non-citizens subject to removal going forward.” In the ABA Journal, Mark Walsh also previewed the case.
On USAToday, Richard Wolf outlined the coming shift in the Supreme Court with the new presidential term and the Court’s ageing lineup.