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Friday, February 23, 2018

“Clarence’s Carnage: Justice Thomas’ Second Amendment opinions ignore the gruesome reality of gun violence. When he rules on death penalty cases, he fixates on it.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 11:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Pa. Republicans are talking about impeaching state Supreme Court justices. Do they have an argument?” Andrew Seidman and Jonathan Lai of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.

Posted at 10:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Supreme Court case could be the biggest threat to unions in years. Good.” Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

Posted at 10:50 PM by Howard Bashman



This guy can afford to hire Paul D. Clement: In today’s edition of The San Jose Mercury News, Paul Rogers has a front page article headlined “Martins Beach: Silicon Valley billionaire takes case to U.S. Supreme Court.”

Sara Hayden of the Half Moon Bay Review reports that “Landowner appeals Martin’s Beach to U.S. Supreme Court.”

Bob Egelko and Jenna Lyons of The San Francisco Chronicle report that “Martins Beach billionaire owner takes fight over public access to US Supreme Court.”

Robert Burnson of Bloomberg News reports that “Billionaire Takes Fight Over California Beach to the Supreme Court.”

At Vanity Fair’s “Hive” blog, Bess Levin has a post titled “Tech Billionaire Takes ‘Get Off My Lawn!’ Case to the Supreme Court; Vinod Khosla is going to kick these mangy surfers off his beach if it’s the last thing he does.”

And Melanie Ehrenkranz of Gizmodo reports that “Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants You Off His Stretch of the California Coastline.”

You can view the petition for writ of certiorari at this link.

Posted at 10:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Thomas, conservatives impatient at Supreme Court’s inaction on 2nd Amendment”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com has this report.

Posted at 2:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Execution of Alabama inmate Doyle Lee Hamm called off”: Lawrence Specker of Alabama Media Group has this report.

Yesterday evening, the U.S. Supreme Court issued this order denying a stay of execution. Justice Stephen G. Breyer issued a statement respecting the denial, while Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a dissent, in which Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined.

And in related news, Brian Lyman of The Montgomery Advertiser reports that “Alabama Senate approves nitrogen as execution option.”

Posted at 8:40 AM by Howard Bashman