Monday round-up

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SCOTUSblog by Edith Roberts 3/9/2020

Amy Howe reports for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court, that on Friday “the administration asked the justices to allow it to enforce the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the ‘remain in Mexico’ policy, which allows the Department of Homeland Security to return immigrants to Mexico while they wait for deportation proceedings.” John Kruzel reports at The Hill that “The request comes after a lower court deemed the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy illegal and ordered a suspension that was scheduled to take effect March 12” in California and Arizona.

Briefly:

    Today’s episode of The New York Times’ The Daily podcast focuses on June Medical Services v. Russo, “the first big test of abortion rights since President Trump created a conservative majority among the justices.”

    At Second Thoughts, Jake Charles notes “the parallels … in the debates over reproductive rights and firearm rights,” suggesting that “n the Second Amendment context, the battle over burdens and benefits and what they mean for constitutional scrutiny is likely to continue,” “But the Court’s decision in June Medical might shed some light on how courts should assess laws that impose restrictions on a constitutional right and offer few (if any) benefits.”

Criticism of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s comments about two Trump Supreme Court appointees at a rally during last week’s argument in June Medical comes from Garrett Epps at The Atlantic, George Conway in an op-ed for The Washington Post (subscription required), and Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist, who also criticizes the media’s coverage of the incident.

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