“Trump’s Precedent for Claiming Immunity? Clinton v. Jones.” Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.
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Monday, April 3, 2017
“Trump’s Precedent for Claiming Immunity? Clinton v. Jones.” Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times. Posted at 8:23 PM by Howard Bashman“Underwriters in SCOTUS repose case: No legal, policy reason to extend time to sue.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post today. Posted at 5:36 PM by Howard Bashman“Gorsuch filibuster would be good for Democrats”: Professor Julian Zelizer has this essay at CNN.com. Posted at 5:28 PM by Howard Bashman“Judge Gorsuch is more dangerous than he appears”: Former U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner has this essay online at The Boston Globe. Posted at 5:00 PM by Howard Bashman“Gorsuch May Be Trump’s Last ‘Well Qualified’ Judge”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View. Posted at 3:48 PM by Howard Bashman“The Strategic Case Against the Democratic Filibuster of Neil Gorsuch”: Law professors Daniel Hemel and David Herzig have this post at Medium. Posted at 3:06 PM by Howard Bashman“A Supreme Mistake in the Making: By breaking the Democrats’ filibuster of Neil Gorsuch, Republicans would hurt the country and themselves.” Robert Schlesinger has this essay online at U.S. News & World Report. Posted at 3:00 PM by Howard Bashman“When Prosecutors Keep Mum: Did eight men spend decades in prison for someone else’s crime? Plus, a history of confirmation hearings.” Slate has posted online this new installment of its “Amicus” podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick. Posted at 2:54 PM by Howard Bashman“Senate Dems reach filibuster threshold on Gorsuch setting up ‘nuclear option’ change”: Ashley Killough and Ted Barrett of CNN.com have this report. Posted at 1:44 PM by Howard Bashman“Neil Gorsuch got where he is because of a form of affirmative action: Will he remember that if he makes it to the Supreme Court?” Law professor Richard L. Hasen — author of the “Election Law Blog” — has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 11:54 AM by Howard Bashman“Warner’s opposition to Trump court nominee gives Democrats 41 ‘no’ votes”: Lawrence Hurley and Susan Heavey of Reuters have this report. Posted at 11:50 AM by Howard Bashman“Good Behaviour #4: ‘The Justin Bieber Standard.'” First Mondays has posted online this new podcast installment today featuring, as always, Ian Samuel and Dan Epps. Posted at 11:26 AM by Howard BashmanAccess today’s rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court in argued cases: The Court today issued rulings in two argued cases. 1. Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the opinion of the Court in McLane Co. v. EEOC, No. 15-1248. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part. You can access the oral argument via this link. 2. And Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in Dean v. United States, No. 15-9260. You can access the oral argument via this link. Posted at 10:04 AM by Howard Bashman“How We Misunderstand Mass Incarceration: A new book argues that, in the effort to fix the prison epidemic, we are addressing the wrong things and missing the true problem.” In the April 10, 2017 issue of The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik has this “Books” essay about law professor John F. Pfaff‘s new book, “Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform.” Posted at 9:57 AM by Howard BashmanToday’s Executive Business Meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. eastern time: During that meeting, the Committee is expected to vote along party lines to recommend the confirmation of Neil M. Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to the full U.S. Senate. C-SPAN2 will provide live coverage beginning at 9:55 a.m., and you should be able to view the proceedings online via this link. In addition, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s web site will provide live coverage via this link. Today’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” contained a segment titled “Seung Min Kim on Senate Judiciary Committe Vote on Supreme Court Nomination.” And from NPR, today’s broadcast of “Morning Edition” contained audio segments titled “Sen. John Thune Says He’s Confident Gorsuch Will Win Confirmation“; “Politics This Week: Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court Nomination“: and “Senate Committee To Vote On Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee.” Yesterday evening’s broadcast of “All Things Considered” contained an audio segment titled “Words You’ll Hear: ‘Nuclear Option.’” And yesterday’s broadcast of “Weekend Edition Sunday” contained an audio segment titled “Sen. Chris Murphy On The Democrats’ Gorsuch Opposition Plans.” Posted at 9:48 AM by Howard BashmanAccess today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in two new cases. In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Justices take up appeal in terror financing case” and “Supreme Court rejects NH bid to revive ballot selfies ban.” Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court to weigh Jordan-based bank’s liability for militant attacks.” And Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Ballot Selfies Allowed as U.S. Supreme Court Rebuffs New Hampshire.” Posted at 9:33 AM by Howard Bashman |
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