Government contractors’ defenses, election challenges, and intellectual disability in capital cases

Government contractors’ defenses, election challenges, and intellectual disability in capital cases

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The Supreme Court is making good progress in sorting through the current relists. This week it disposed of four. It was good news for the petitioner in Fernandez v. United States, involving the scope of a statute that gives judges discretion to reduce criminal sentences for “extraord…