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Friday, March 17, 2017

“Is the Scalia theory that Judge Gorsuch embraces a lofty constitutional doctrine or just an excuse to be conservative?” David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has an article that begins, “When Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, goes before the Senate next week, it will be a triumphant moment for ‘originalism,’ the once-obscure theory that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the meaning of words and phrases as they were understood in the times they were written.”

Posted at 11:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“9th Circuit judges in nasty feud over Trump travel ban; Jurists trade charges and counter-charges over ruling that kept block on executive order”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this report.

The opinions that various Ninth Circuit judges filed today in Washington v. Trump can be accessed here.

Posted at 11:37 PM by Howard Bashman