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Friday, March 31, 2017

“McCaskill will vote against Trump’s Supreme Court nominee”: Lindsay Wise of The Kansas City Star has an article that begins, “Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill announced Friday that she will not support the nomination of conservative Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and will join a Democratic effort to block his confirmation vote, which is scheduled for next week.”

Posted at 4:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Why Trump Will Have To Work With The Senate, Including Democrats, To Get His Judges Confirmed”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report.

Posted at 4:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals court won’t release Gitmo force-feeding videos”: Sam Hananel of The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today. Each of the three judges on the panel issued his or her own opinion.

In other coverage, Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “U.S. appeals court blocks release of Guantanamo Bay force-feeding videos.”

And Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has a blog post titled “Court splinters in Guantanamo videos case.”

Posted at 1:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Memo to Democratic senators: If you like your job, filibuster Gorsuch; If you’re a Democrat who wants to win your next election, maybe you don’t want the Supreme Court to endorse voter suppression.” Ian Millhiser has this post today at ThinkProgress.

Posted at 11:44 AM by Howard Bashman



En banc Fifth Circuit decides case in which on rehearing the parties were asked to address “whether this court’s rule of orderliness, properly understood, should extend to issues that were not considered by a prior panel”: You can access yesterday’s en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link. On the merits, the en banc court divided 8-to-7.

With regard to the “rule of orderliness,” however, the lead opinion refused to engage on that issue. Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith, in a very interesting dissent in which a total of seven judges joined, expressed his strong disagreement with the en banc court’s refusal to address the issues concerning the “rule of orderliness” that the case presented.

Posted at 10:46 AM by Howard Bashman



“Senate Republican Suicide: A filibuster deal with Democrats over Gorsuch would be a judicial and political disaster.” This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 8:50 AM by Howard Bashman