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Monday, February 6, 2017

“Will You Accept This Robe? Is Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch really Scalia 2.0? And the constitutional and human costs of Trump’s Muslim ban.” Slate has posted online this new installment of its “Amicus” podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick.

Posted at 9:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Informants’ interviews force Markel trial delay”: Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has an article that begins, “Interviews with inmates who spent time with Sigfredo Garcia in the Leon County Jail may corroborate what one of his co-defendants and investigators have said all along about the death of Dan Markel — that Garcia was allegedly recruited by the law professor’s in-laws in a murder for hire plot.”

Posted at 9:34 PM by Howard Bashman



“Gorsuch should be considered for the Supreme Court on his merits, not on Trump’s tweets”: Michael McGough has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 7:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judges who ruled in Brady case unanimous in praise of game”: Larry Neumeister of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Three Manhattan judges who ruled in the ‘Deflategate’ case differed on the law but unanimously praised this year’s Super Bowl on Monday.”

Posted at 7:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Federal appeals court decides to schedule a hearing on Trump travel order”: Matt Zapotosky of The Washington Post has this report.

Adam Liptak of The New York Times reports that “Justice Department Urges Appeals Court to Reinstate Trump’s Travel Ban.”

Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Trump’s travel ban to be argued Tuesday in S.F. federal court.”

And Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News reports that “Appeals Court Will Hear Arguments Tuesday On Whether To Keep Trump’s Travel Ban On Hold.”

Posted at 7:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“A federal case over the prices inmates pay for phone calls turned ‘really strange'”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

And Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “The FCC Has Stopped Defending Its Own Rules Lowering The Cost Of Prisoner Phone Calls; Now with a majority of Republican members, the FCC recently told a federal appeals court it would no longer defend its caps on fees for calls made by prisoners, designed to help inmates maintain connections with loved ones and reduce recidivism.”

You can access via this link (77.2 MB mp3 audio file) the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Posted at 6:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“A new obstacle to Trump’s immigration limits?” Lyle Denniston has this post at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

Posted at 1:35 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Nominee’s Legal Approach Follows Scalia; Analysis of past rulings reveal an ideology similar to late justice’s”: Todd Ruger of Roll Call has this report.

Posted at 1:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge Gorsuch’s Originalism Contrasts With Mentor’s Pragmatism”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

Posted at 1:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“Neil Gorsuch’s Personality Could Shift Supreme Court’s Dynamic; While Judge Gorsuch has some similarities to Justice Scalia, the new nominee would bring a different style”: Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Posted at 1:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Few Recall Gorsuch’s Volunteer Work at Harvard; Questions arise over Trump Supreme Court pick’s level of participation in programs to help less fortunate while in law school”: Beth Reinhard and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Posted at 11:08 AM by Howard Bashman



“Reading Between the Lines for Gorsuch’s Views on Abortion”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 11:03 AM by Howard Bashman



“Video highlights: Exploring the presidential nomination and confirmation process.” The American Bar Association has posted this video online.

Posted at 10:22 AM by Howard Bashman



“Trump order’s critics urge appeals court not to allow resumption of travel ban; Former top U.S. officials and some of the nation’s largest tech firms also weighed in against Trump’s order”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this report.

Posted at 10:20 AM by Howard Bashman



“Opponents Of Trump’s Travel Ban Make Their Case To Federal Appeals Court”: Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News has this report.

Posted at 8:14 AM by Howard Bashman