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Sunday, January 21, 2018

“Trump’s Tweets Have Been A Legal Disaster For The Justice Department; The White House has said President Trump’s tweets are official statements; Judges are treating them as such as they repeatedly rule against his administration”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report.

Posted at 7:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“Chief Justice John Roberts Has Changed A Little Bit. And That Could Be A Big Deal.” Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News has an article that begins, “Thirteen years into the job, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. remains a conservative — but he has shifted to a more moderate position among the conservative justices on the court, a small change with potentially dramatic consequences.”

Posted at 7:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“Are Felons Fit to Be Lawyers? Increasingly, the Answer Is Yes.” Elizabeth Olson has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 5:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Cinema Cafe with Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Nina Totenberg”: Sundance Institute has posted this video on YouTube.

In news coverage, Colleen Shalby of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Ruth Bader Ginsburg shares #MeToo moment about Cornell instructor.”

Brent Lang of Variety has a report headlined “Ruth Bader Ginsburg on #MeToo Movement, Her SNL Parody, and Supreme Court Retirement.”

Dominic Patten of Deadline Hollywood reports that “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Tells Sundance She’s Not Worried About #MeToo Backlash.”

Yesterday, Gregg Kilday of The Hollywood Reporter previewed today’s event in an article headlined “Sundance: Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Could Be the Toast of the Fest; Millennials have embraced the Supreme Court Justice with the hip-hop moniker Notorious RBG, liberals view her as their champion, and conservatives heap scorn — now with a new documentary about her life and legacy, she’s ready to take Sundance by storm.”

Posted at 5:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“Federal appeals court agrees to hear Eves’ appeal of lawsuit over LePage’s action; The governor threatened to block funding for a charter school if former House Speaker Mark Eves were appointed its president; Judges previously ruled that LePage’s actions did not overstep his authority”: Edward D. Murphy of The Portland (Me.) Press Herald has this report.

Christopher Cousins of The Bangor Daily News reports that “Appeals court revives former House speaker’s lawsuit against LePage.”

You can access Friday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit granting rehearing en banc at this link.

Posted at 12:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: Playing the Lottery.” Aaron Nielson has this post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

Posted at 12:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Reynolds nominated to U.S. Supreme Court Bar Association”: Grayson Schmidt of The Ames (Iowa) Tribune has an article that begins, “Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds said it would be ‘a dream’ to argue a case in front of the United States Supreme Court, and come March 5, she will be one step closer to that dream once she is sworn into the United States Supreme Court Bar Association in Washington, D.C.”

Posted at 10:52 AM by Howard Bashman



“How a Labor Stronghold Could Soon Take a Hit; Shift in union membership toward public workers raises stakes of expected Supreme Court ruling”: Eric Morath and Danny Dougherty of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Posted at 10:35 AM by Howard Bashman