“Lawyer in Eakin case says deal unlikely”: Mark Fazlollah and Craig R. McCoy of The Philadelphia Inquirer have an article that begins, “Richard A. Sprague, the prominent Philadelphia lawyer serving as mediator in the judicial misconduct case against state Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin, suggested Monday that he was unlikely to succeed in brokering a deal to resolve the charges without a trial.”
And Dave Davies of NewsWorks has a blog post titled “Porngate: Old boys network to the rescue.”
“James Madison Would’ve Backed Phoenix’s Satanists”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.
“Legal scholars debate Cruz’s eligibility to serve as president”: Harvard Law Today has this report.
A video of the entire debate is now available online at YouTube via this link.
“Ted Cruz Is Not Eligible to Be President: At least according to the most plausible constitutional interpretation.” Law professor Eric Posner has this essay online at Slate today.
“From death row to parole? Killer could apply.” Andrew Wolfson has this front page article in today’s edition of The Louisville Courier-Journal.
“The NRA Just Scored One Of Its Biggest Victories In Years”: Ian Millhiser has this post today at ThinkProgress.
“Kloppenburg, Donald release ads in Supreme Court race”:
Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a blog post that begins, “In the final days before a three-way primary for state Supreme Court primary, two candidates have launched TV ads — one attacking Justice Rebecca Bradley as being ‘backed to the hilt by right-wing special interests’ and one arguing politics have no place on the courts.”
“Leading authors press for Supreme Court review of Google’s digitised library; The web giant’s digitisation of millions of books — many in copyright — faces a fresh legal challenge, backed by authors including Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey, Ursula Le Guin and Malcolm Gladwell”: Alison Flood of The Guardian (UK) has this report.
