“Tweet-loving Justice Don Willett confirmed for federal appeals court”: Nicole Cobler of The Dallas Morning News has this report.
Kevin Diaz of The Houston Chronicle reports that “White House drops Jeff Mateer, while Senate confirms Texas Justice Willett to federal bench.”
And Emma Platoff of The Texas Tribune reports that “Texan Don Willett confirmed by U.S. Senate to federal 5th Circuit Court.”
You can access the U.S. Senate‘s official roll call vote tally confirming Don R. Willett to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit by a vote of 50-to-47 at this link.
“Breaking the law clerks’ code of silence: the sexual misconduct claims against Judge Kozinski.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.
“What’s Next After the Kozinski Allegations? Here’s How Courts Handle Misconduct Claims; In the normal judicial misconduct case, a federal appeals court would handle the complaint internally; But the sexual misconduct allegations against Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit pose complications for the courts, according to judicial ethics experts.” Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.
“Trump judge nominee withdraws after criticism over White House ties; Brett Talley, deemed ‘not qualified’ by bar panel, had not tried a court case”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this report.
“On Judge Kozinski & Open Secrets”: Charlotte Garden has this post at the “Take Care” blog.
“Trump’s race to remake federal courts proves divisive”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.
“He Made Us All Victims and Accomplices: For 20 years, I’ve felt it was too early to speak up about Judge Alex Kozinski; Now I fear it’s too late.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“Judges, Law Clerks, and the Professors Who Recommend Them”: Josh Blackman has this blog post.
“This Won’t Be the Last We’ve Heard of Roy Moore: He was twice removed as Alabama’s chief justice, and twice returned to run again; What’s to stop him now?” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.
“WV Supreme Court grants access to warehouse housing antique desk, leather couch”: Phil Kabler of The Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette-Mail has an article that begins, “After two weeks of denying Gazette-Mail requests to tour its warehouse in Kanawha City, the Supreme Court Tuesday provided media access to the facility, currently housing an antique walnut ‘Cass Gilbert’ desk and a leather couch recently removed from the home of Chief Justice Allen Loughry.”
“Trump Poised to Set Record for Appeals Court Judges; Three more nominees set to be confirmed this week”: Todd Ruger of Roll Call recently had this report.
“A Comment on Some Misplaced and Dangerous Slippery-Slope Concerns About Masterpiece Cakeshop”: Asher Steinberg has this post at his blog, “The Narrowest Grounds.”
View live, online the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee‘s confirmation hearing for Eleventh Circuit nominee Elizabeth L. Branch: Via this link.
Access online the text of D.C. Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh‘s remarks at the 2017 Walter Berns Constitution Day Lecture hosted by American Enterprise Institute: At this link.
And for those of you who like to watch, AEI has posted the video of Judge Kavanaugh’s remarks on YouTube at this link (and a transcript of the event at this link).
“The Volokh Conspiracy” blog has relocated from The Washington Post to Reason.com: Where you can access it as often as you want with no paywall. The blog’s home page can now be accessed here.
