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Friday, January 23, 2015

“GOP may abolish Supreme Court filibusters; The Senate move would expand on changes that Democrats made using the ‘nuclear option'”: Burgess Everett and Seung Min Kim of Politico.com have this report.

Posted at 8:24 PM by Howard Bashman



Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court today granted review in two new cases.

In early news coverage, Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Justices will review use of midazolam as execution drug.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court to review Oklahoma execution procedure.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Court to rule on lethal-injection protocol.”

Posted at 5:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“Republicans Know Their Obamacare Case Is Bogus. Here’s the Proof.” Brian Beutler has this essay online today at The New Republic.

Posted at 1:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Alan Dershowitz gets support of Harvard professors; Law school faculty criticize lawyers involved in lawsuit”: This article appears in today’s edition of The Boston Globe.

The Telegraph (UK) reports that “Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz take different paths to confronting the same accuser; The Harvard Law professor says he is able to ‘get into the dirt’ over sex allegations, while the Duke of York must stay above it.”

And The Daily Mail (UK) has an article headlined “All aboard the ‘Lolita Express’: Flight logs reveal the many trips Bill Clinton and Alan Dershowitz took on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet with anonymous women.”

Posted at 1:35 PM by Howard Bashman