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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

“There’s A Showdown Brewing In The Senate That Could Change Supreme Court Nominations Forever; If Senate Republicans go through with the so-called ‘nuclear option,’ one of their own warns that future presidents, from either party, will ‘have no reason to appoint a Boy Scout like Gorsuch'”: Emma Loop of BuzzFeed News has this report.

Posted at 7:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“U.S. Supreme Court weighs Advocate pension case”: Lisa Schencker of The Chicago Tribune has this report.

Jacklyn Wille of Bloomberg BNA reports that “Hospital Pension Plans Seek Salvation at SCOTUS.”

Kelsey Dallas of The Deseret News has an article headlined “What counts as a church? Supreme Court pension case asks important question.”

And today at the “Democracy in America” blog of The Economist, Steven Mazie has a post titled “Falling short: Justices ask whether religious hospitals must guarantee workers’ pensions; For more than 30 years a church exemption from funding requirements has been extended to affiliated hospitals.”

Posted at 3:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Schumer headed for epic clash with McConnell: They said they’d try to get along, but imminent battles over the Supreme Court and government funding will test that proposition.” Burgess Everett of Politico.com has this report.

Posted at 2:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge Gorsuch and Chevron Doctrine Part II: The Misuse of Precedent.” Asher Steinberg has this guest post — the second in a three-part series — today at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

Posted at 2:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Patterns of Eight Justices: Will They Persist with a New Court Member?” Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

Posted at 9:44 AM by Howard Bashman