A few days ago I wrote this post on what the Supreme Court’s decision in Carhart may tell us about how the Court will decide WRTL (oral argument Wednesday). In today’s Washington Post, Bob Barnes looks more broadly at the Roberts Court and its treatment of precedent as it moves in a conservative direction. And Marty Lederman, in another must-read post, draws connections between the Court’s treatment of empirical evidence in the abortion decision and its treatment of evidence in the Court’s recent voter identification case, Purcell v. Gonzalez, picking up on some ideas I’ve developed here.