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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

“Tweet-loving Justice Don Willett confirmed for federal appeals court”: Nicole Cobler of The Dallas Morning News has this report.

Kevin Diaz of The Houston Chronicle reports that “White House drops Jeff Mateer, while Senate confirms Texas Justice Willett to federal bench.”

And Emma Platoff of The Texas Tribune reports that “Texan Don Willett confirmed by U.S. Senate to federal 5th Circuit Court.”

You can access the U.S. Senate‘s official roll call vote tally confirming Don R. Willett to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit by a vote of 50-to-47 at this link.

Posted at 7:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“Breaking the law clerks’ code of silence: the sexual misconduct claims against Judge Kozinski.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

Posted at 7:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“What’s Next After the Kozinski Allegations? Here’s How Courts Handle Misconduct Claims; In the normal judicial misconduct case, a federal appeals court would handle the complaint internally; But the sexual misconduct allegations against Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit pose complications for the courts, according to judicial ethics experts.” Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.

Posted at 7:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump judge nominee withdraws after criticism over White House ties; Brett Talley, deemed ‘not qualified’ by bar panel, had not tried a court case”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this report.

Posted at 5:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“He Made Us All Victims and Accomplices: For 20 years, I’ve felt it was too early to speak up about Judge Alex Kozinski; Now I fear it’s too late.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 3:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“This Won’t Be the Last We’ve Heard of Roy Moore: He was twice removed as Alabama’s chief justice, and twice returned to run again; What’s to stop him now?” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

Posted at 1:23 PM by Howard Bashman



“WV Supreme Court grants access to warehouse housing antique desk, leather couch”: Phil Kabler of The Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette-Mail has an article that begins, “After two weeks of denying Gazette-Mail requests to tour its warehouse in Kanawha City, the Supreme Court Tuesday provided media access to the facility, currently housing an antique walnut ‘Cass Gilbert’ desk and a leather couch recently removed from the home of Chief Justice Allen Loughry.”

Posted at 1:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Poised to Set Record for Appeals Court Judges; Three more nominees set to be confirmed this week”: Todd Ruger of Roll Call recently had this report.

Posted at 12:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Comment on Some Misplaced and Dangerous Slippery-Slope Concerns About Masterpiece Cakeshop”: Asher Steinberg has this post at his blog, “The Narrowest Grounds.”

Posted at 10:38 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Volokh Conspiracy” blog has relocated from The Washington Post to Reason.com: Where you can access it as often as you want with no paywall. The blog’s home page can now be accessed here.

Posted at 8:30 AM by Howard Bashman