Race, never far from the U.S. Supreme Court docket, moved to the fore in the term’s first week in two arguments that challenge its presence in the criminal justice system. The justices this term will grapple with race in criminal justice, electoral maps and lending discrimination.
On Wednesday, the justices heard Buck v. Davis, a Texas death penalty case that raises a question about whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit applied the wrong standard when it denied Duane Buck, a convicted murderer, a so-called certificate of appealability. That certificate would have allowed him to reopen his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.
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