Federal Judiciary

Friday round-up

By Kiran Bhat

The Court wraps up a relatively uneventful week today.

Briefly:

• The AP (via USA Today) reports that Justice Sotomayor was ?among the fans of bipartisan seating at the State of the Union address? on Tuesday night. Video of Justice Sotomayor?s Thursday lecture to students at Kansas State University is here (thanks to How Appealing).
• Remaining on the State of the Union theme, the editorial board of the Boston Globe chides Justices Alito, Thomas, and Scalia for skipping the address; it contends that although ?[s]howing up [for the speech] isn?t political,? ?boycotting it is.?   Moreover, it notes, ?the nation is best served by a Supreme Court it can trust to be a source of independent judicial review.?
• Thomas Nash of the Armenian Mirror-Spectator reviews the implications of the Court?s denial of certiorari in Griswold v. Driscoll, which the paper describes as a ?high-profile Armenian Genocide case.?

Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on January 28, 2011 (boomark / email).