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Friday, April 29, 2016

“White House allies make new push for Garland; Groups to blitz nine states with ads, events to pressure GOP to allow a vote on Supreme Court nominee”: Edward-Isaac Dovere of Politico.com has this report today.

Posted at 1:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“Baldwin, Johnson bitterly joust over appeals court vacancy”: In today’s edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Craig Gilbert has a front page article that begins, “Wisconsin’s two U.S. senators are blaming each other in unusually harsh terms over the failure to fill the nation’s oldest vacancy in the federal appeals courts, a marathon six-year impasse that now seems likely to drag on.”

Posted at 11:38 AM by Howard Bashman



“WI John Doe Cert. Petition Raises Substantial Questions, But #SCOTUS May Not Bite”: Rick Hasen has this post today at his “Election Law Blog.”

And in related news coverage, Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that “Prosecutors ask U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Doe decision.”

And in today’s edition of The Wisconsin State Journal, Matthew DeFour has a front page article headlined “Prosecutors appeal John Doe decision to U.S. Supreme Court.”

Posted at 11:34 AM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Breyer Stresses Globality”: The Hoya, the student newspaper of Georgetown University, has an article that begins, “Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer argued that the court should take a more global perspective in legal deliberations and defended the responsibility of the court to uphold the rule of law in a conversation hosted by the department of government as part of the Marver H. Bernstein Symposium in Gaston Hall on Thursday.”

Posted at 11:30 AM by Howard Bashman



“A Supreme Court Challenge for Democrats: Ending ugly confirmation battles would be good for the high court; But a truce cannot be one-sided.” In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Theodore B. Olson has an op-ed that begins, “The relentless partisan warfare over Supreme Court appointments, including the latest manifestation involving Judge Merrick Garland, is disheartening, damaging to the court and corrosive to civil discourse.”

You can freely access the full text of the op-ed via Google.

Posted at 11:18 AM by Howard Bashman