June 27, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week on several major cases including United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry in regard to same-sex marriage, Fisher v. University of Texas on Affirmative Action, and Shelby County v. Holder, which concerned the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A number of HLS faculty shared their opinions of the rulings on the radio, television, on the web and in print. See some excerpts and links below:
Voting Rights Act
Lani Guinier
Radio Boston
Supreme Court Strikes Down Voting Rights Act Provisions
NPR's Talk of the Nation
What Changes After Supreme Court Ruling on Voting Act
Washington Post
Voting Rights Act ruling: Here’s what you need to know
Charles Ogletree
Washington Post
John Lewis and others react to the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act ruling
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
Careful Scrutiny of New Voter Identification Laws if Critical to Protect Voting Rights of Vulnerable Populations (PDF)
Noah Feldman
Bloomberg View
The Civil-Rights Era Ended Today
Huffington Post
The Rule Of Law On The Move: Challenges And Disasters (video)
Mark Tushnet
KCRW
Supreme Court Invalidates Key Sections of Voting Rights Act (radio)
Wall Street Journal
Our Rights, Not the Court’s
Affirmative Action
Lani Guinier
The Alcade
Fisher v. Texas: A Legal Expert Explains
Charles Fried
NPR's Morning Edition
Supreme Court Sends Affirmative Action Case to Lower Court
Cass Sunstein
Providence Journal
Cass R. Sunstein: Wisdom wins on affirmative action
Long Island Newsday
How to understand the world through Antonin Scalia's eyes
Same-Sex Marriage
Laurence Tribe
SCOTUSblog
DOMA, Prop 8 and Justice Scalia's intemperate dissent
Harvard Crimson
Law School Professors React to Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Rulings
Michael Klarman
NBC News
Same-Sex marriage supporters cheer 'Cinderella moment'; opponents vow to fight on
Ballarat Courier
Gay couples win landmark case
Los Angeles Times
What we learned about the Roberts court
Margaret Marshall
WGBH News
Retired Chief Justice Margaret Marshall on Gay Marriage Rulings (video)
New England Cable Network
Marshall: DOMA ruling is a momentous decision (video)
Harvard Gazette
Tracking a cultural shift
Cass Sunstein
Bloomberg News
Gay-Marriage Ruling Safeguards Human Dignity
Charles Fried
Boston Herald
Unequal benefits spelled DOMA’s doom
Richard Fallon
Thomson Reuters
ANALYSIS-U.S. top court in no rush to grant national gay-marriage right
Noah Feldman