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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

“Key Democrats Are Undecided As They Prepare To Grill Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee; With Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination hearings set to begin next week, several red state Democrats and even some liberal members say they haven’t decided how they’ll vote on President Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court”: Emma Loop of BuzzFeed News has this report.

Posted at 8:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Fifth Circuit Judge Assails DOJ ‘Arrogance’ in Voting Rights Case”: Miriam Rozen of Texas Lawyer has this report. The portion of Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith‘s dissent that is the focus of this article can be accessed here.

And in earlier coverage of the three-judge district court’s ruling (access the dissent directly at this link) at his “Elecction Law Blog,” Rick Hasen has a post titled “Analysis: Texas Redistricting Decision Major Victory for Voting Rights Bar and May Pave Way for Texas to Be Back under Federal Supervision.”

Posted at 12:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch: Expected by Big Business to be Another Reliable Vote on the Roberts Court.” Judith E. Schaeffer of the Constitutional Accountability Center has this issue brief.

Posted at 11:48 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks education, opposing views”: Aparna Verma of The Stanford Daily has this report.

And Alex Shashkevich of Stanford News reports that “Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor emphasizes importance of broad education, empathy in her talk at Stanford; Sonia Sotomayor, who became a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 2009, spoke about the importance of broad education and charity at Stanford Memorial Auditorium.”

Posted at 10:22 AM by Howard Bashman



“Roger Taney, Dred Scott families reconcile 160 years after infamous Supreme Court decision”: Jonathan M. Pitts of The Baltimore Sun has this report.

Posted at 10:14 AM by Howard Bashman



“Democrats paralyzed as Gorsuch skates; The party is split over how aggressively to oppose Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee”: Seung Min Kim and Burgess Everett of Politico.com have this report.

Posted at 10:06 AM by Howard Bashman