Federal Judiciary

Friday round-up

By James Romoser

At the end of a busy week dealing with emergency requests on the court’s shadow docket, the justices are meeting Friday for a private conference. It is the first conference at which newly confirmed Justice Amy Coney Barrett will participate. The justices are scheduled to discuss — among other petitions for review — whether to take up an antitrust challenge to the National Football League’s telecasting arrangements and a case urging the justices to reconsider the qualified immunity doctrine. The court had previously been scheduled to discuss on Friday a challenge to a Mississippi ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, but that petition has been rescheduled and will be discussed at some future conference.

Hopefully the justices won’t turn into pumpkins after such a hectic week — they get a quick break for Halloween weekend and then return to the virtual bench on Monday for November oral arguments.

Here?s a round-up of other Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web:

• In Voting Cases, Chief Justice Roberts Is Alone but in Control (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
• One theory by one justice binds together Supreme Court?s contradictory election opinions (Robert Barnes, The Washington Post)
• The Supreme Court has remained surprisingly centrist on voting rights. That?s a pleasant surprise. (Edward Foley, The Washington Post)
• The Barrett Battle That Wasn’t (Curt Levey, The Wall Street Journal)
• Op-Ed: The immorality of sentencing a 15-year-old to prison forever (Arthur Rizer, Los Angeles Times)
• Supreme Court referees spate of election battles: What their decisions say about how elections are regulated (Melissa Quinn, CBS News)
• Barrett will join Supreme Court to hear blockbuster religious freedom case (Mark Walsh, ABA Journal)

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