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Friday, January 21, 2011

“Should They Stay or Should They Go? Some Supreme Court justices are still in a snit over last year’s State of the Union speech.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 10:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court to rule on lawyers’ freedoms”: Today’s edition of The Montreal Gazette contains an article that begins, “When can a lawyer criticize a judge? Lawyers — as well as judges and professional orders representing lawyers across Canada — will be closely watching the outcome of a Supreme Court of Canada case that begins next Wednesday.”

Posted at 10:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Year after ruling: Right gloats, left vows fight.” Politico.com has a report that begins, “The first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was marked Friday in classically Washington fashion — with protests, press conferences, dueling panel discussions and talk of a new effort by liberal groups to expose some of the conservative nonprofit groups that took advantage of the ruling to spend millions of dollars on political ads.”

Posted at 10:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge Tacha to take senior status”: Today’s edition of The Topeka Capital-Journal contains an article that begins, “President Barack Obama is getting his first chance to pick a Kansan for the federal appeals court that serves Kansas and five other states, The Topeka Capital-Journal has learned. His opportunity arises from an unpublicized decision by longtime Judge Deanell Reece Tacha, of Lawrence, to switch from full-time service on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to senior judge status.”

Posted at 4:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Year Later, Citizens United Reshapes Politics”: This audio segment appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, David N. Bossie and Theodore B. Olson have an op-ed entitled “A victory for independent speech.”

And in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, law professor Joel M. Gora has an op-ed entitled “A Free Speech Anniversary: One year ago the Supreme Court affirmed that individuals don’t lose their rights when they organize as a corporation.” You can freely access the full text of the op-ed via Google News.

Posted at 11:02 AM by Howard Bashman