A new session of the United States Supreme Court starts today. Jonathan Adler previews the cases and the issues. Of personal interest:
The 2008 elections may be over a year away, but election-related litigation is already in full swing. Last month the Supreme Court accepted a case challenging the constitutionality of voter identification requirements, and placed the case on an expedited briefing schedule. Several states have adopted photo identification requirements for polling places in recent years, and most of those laws have been challenged in federal court. This is hardly the only election law issue on the docket, however, as the Court will also hear challenges to Washington State’s “top-two” primary and New York state’s approach to judicial elections.
Ben Winograd at SCOTUS Blog also peers at SCOTUS tea leaves:
Today, the first day of the October 2007 term, the Court will hear oral argument in the consolidated cases of Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican Party (06-713) and Washington v. Washington State Republican Party (06-730), and in New York City Board of Education v. Tom F. (06-637). The Court also is expected to release orders at 10 a.m. Eastern. We will post a copy as soon as one becomes available.
On Tuesday, the Court is scheduled to hear oral argument in Gall v. United States (06-7949) and Kimbrough v. United States (06-6330).
On Wednesday, the Court is scheduled to hear oral argument in NY Board of Elections v. Torres (06-766) and United States v. Santos (06-1005).
On Friday, the Court is scheduled to hold its first conference of the October 2007 term. Friday is also the deadline for District of Columbia gun rights advocates to file its brief its opposition to the petition for certiorari in District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290), which seeks to revive the city handgun ban struck down by the D.C. Circuit Court.
The folks behind SCOTUS Blog are launching a companion site, SCOTUS Wiki, that may turn into a valuable online resource. Just open for business, SCOTUS Wiki needs a lot more stuff. Clicking on the lefthand navigation links turned up a bunch of empty page notices. The “Random Page” link displayed US v Santos, which looks into a case on money laundering that SCOTUS will consider this week.
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