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Monday, February 13, 2017

“Case of Captive in Yemen Could Test Trump’s Guantanamo Pledge”: Adam Goldman, Matt Apuzzo, and Eric Schmitt will have this front page article in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 11:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“Democrats’ Quandary on Gorsuch: Appease the Base or Honor the Process.” Matt Flegenheimer will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 11:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Review: None of Gorsuch’s opinions overturned by Supreme Court; Nominee shows pattern of checking executive power.” Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times has this report.

Posted at 6:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Justice Breyer plays down politics of court during Sarasota speech; Justice stresses importance of the court’s process in reaching decisions”: Zac Anderson of The Sarasota Herald-Tribune recently had this report.

Posted at 6:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Ninth Circuit’s Contrived Comedy of Errors in Washington v. Trump: Part I.” Josh Blackman has this post today at the “Lawfare” blog.

Posted at 5:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“Meet Kellyanne Conway’s husband”: Mari A. Schaefer of The Philadelphia Inquirer has a blog post that begins, “As President Trump continues to fill key positions in his staff, one name floated about for solicitor general is that of George T. Conway III, husband of Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the president.”

Posted at 5:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Scalia: Portrait of a Man & Jurist.” The Federalist Society today has posted on YouTube this excerpt from the forthcoming the feature-length documentary, “Scalia: Portrait of a Man & Jurist.”

Posted at 5:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Samuel Alito’s remarks at the Claremont Institute, 2/11/2017”: “SCOTUSMap” has this post today. Because this does not appear to be an authorized video recording, those wishing to view the video should do so soon, before the video permanently disappears.

Update on February 14, 2017 at 9:54 a.m.: As predicted, the YouTube videos are no longer accessible.

Posted at 3:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Thurgood Marshall’s Legacy: Former law clerks to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke about his legacy.” C-SPAN has posted online the video of this program, which featured Justice Elena Kagan as a panelist.

Posted at 1:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Federalist Paper: The Publication Neil Gorsuch Helped Found at Columbia; Gorsuch has been a sensible voice for conservatism in liberal circles since his college years.” National Review has recently republished online this article written by D. Keith Mano, which originally appeared 20 years ago in the February 13, 1987 issue of that magazine.

Posted at 1:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“On Living Well: Five Lessons from Antonin Scalia; His former law clerk recalls the legendary Supreme Court justice on the anniversary of his death.” Ryan J. Walsh has this essay online today at National Review.

Posted at 1:11 PM by Howard Bashman



“I’m a moderate for Gorsuch: Former law clerk; He pushed us for research and didn’t bring preconceptions into the courtroom.” Jessica Greenstone has this essay online at USA Today.

Posted at 11:50 AM by Howard Bashman