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Friday, December 8, 2017

“Misconduct Claims Against Kozinski Put New Spotlight on Past Controversies; ‘Tell Kozinski to watch pornography at home and not in his own court,’ the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist reportedly once said about the Ninth Circuit judge”: Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.

Posted at 10:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“The (other) attack on Chevron deference”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

Posted at 8:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski is accused by former clerks of making sexual comments”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Posted at 7:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“Prominent appeals court Judge Alex Kozinski accused of sexual misconduct”: Matt Zapotosky of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 5:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Case for the Baker in the Gay-Wedding Culture War”: Andrew Sullivan has this post at the “Daily Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.

Posted at 3:27 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump travel ban and his tweets argued at federal appeals court”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

Denise Lavoie of The Associated Press reports that “Trump travel heard by 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals.”

Josh Gerstein of Politico.com reports that “Sparks fly over Trump tweets at travel ban court arguments; The president’s tweet about bullets dipped in pigs’ blood doesn’t show an anti-Muslim bias, Justice Department lawyers argue.”

And Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “Trump’s Tweets Are Still Snagging The Justice Department’s Travel Ban Defense.”

Posted at 2:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“Thomas Porteous, ex-federal judge in New Orleans, cited in call for court inspector general”: Drew Broach of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman



Listen live to this morning’s Fourth Circuit oral argument in International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump: The oral argument is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. eastern time, and you can access the live oral argument feed online via this link.

On a related note, the Fourth Circuit has now joined the Ninth Circuit in having its own YouTube channel.

Update: The archived audio of this morning’s en banc Fourth Circuit oral argument can be accessed via this link (83.4 MB mp3 audio file).

Posted at 9:00 AM by Howard Bashman