Weekly Roundup, September 25, 2015

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In anticipation of Pope Francis’ visit, the National Law Journal wrote about the times the Pope has been mentioned in Supreme Court cases over the last sixty years.

Noah Feldman wrote about Chief Justice Roberts’ lonely position on Bloomberg View: “Roberts is in the admirable and unenviable position of having a principled, across-the-board stand against activism. It’s admirable because justices are supposed to have, you know, a coherent judicial philosophy. And it’s unenviable because, in an era of activism, it wins you nothing but enemies on both sides.”

“You should be upset because [the Supreme Court Justices] are making a new Constitution and they are terribly unrepresentative of the country,” Justice Scalia said on Tuesday at Rhodes College.  Scalia also predicted the Court would strike down the death penalty.

The Economist reports that  Apple intends to ask the Supreme Court to review a ruling by a federal appeals court regarding their entry into e-book sales in 2010.

A Reuters analysis indicated that state supreme court “Justices chosen by voters reverse death penalties at less than half the rate of those who are appointed.”

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