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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

“The Supreme Court Questions Trump and Clinton Haven’t Answered Yet: The high court is one of six topics for the final presidential debate, where nominees may be asked about gun rights and gay marriage.” Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

Posted at 2:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“State Judge: Congress trusts the public to handle assault rifles.” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

Posted at 1:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“At U lecture, Justice Sotomayor decries ugly political climate; The Supreme Court’s Sonia Sotomayor delivered the Stein Lecture at the U.” Miguel Otarola of The Minneapolis Star Tribune has this report.

Josh Verges of The Pioneer Press of St. Paul, Minnesota reports that “At UMN, Sotomayor addresses Scalia, Perry Mason — and Trump, sort of.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Sotomayor: US Supreme Court still feeling loss of Scalia.”

Posted at 10:42 AM by Howard Bashman



“William Baude, ‘An Introduction to the Federalist Society'”: The University of Chicago Law School has posted this audio at SoundCloud.

Posted at 10:25 AM by Howard Bashman



“For a rare moment at the Supreme Court, the genders were on equal footing”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 10:10 AM by Howard Bashman



“Prominent Conservative Legal Minds Reject SCOTUS Argument for Trump”: Adam J. White has this post at The Weekly Standard.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Conservative ‘originalists’ letter calls Trump ‘indifferent or hostile’ to the Constitution.”

And Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post reports that “Some Of Justice Scalia’s Biggest Fans Declare Donald Trump ‘Uniquely Unsuited’ To Be President; They don’t trust him to uphold the Constitution at all.”

You can read the open letter at a blog titled “Originalists Against Trump.”

Posted at 8:37 AM by Howard Bashman