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Sunday, April 15, 2018

“Give Amnesty for College Writings: It’s dangerous to punish judicial nominees — or anyone else — for thinking while immature.” David Lat has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 11:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Wisconsin professor says firing shows anti-conservative bias”: Ivan Moreno of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A dispute between a conservative professor and the university that fired him is going before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which will hear arguments this week on whether the firing was the result of a provocative blog post or his conduct.”

Posted at 8:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Rod Blagojevich likely down to last legal hope as U.S. Supreme Court decides whether to take up his appeal”: Jason Meisner of The Chicago Tribune has this report.

Posted at 8:36 PM by Howard Bashman



“Without mentioning Mueller, Trump lawyers urge high court to bolster his power to fire executive officials”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Posted at 8:29 PM by Howard Bashman



“Abortion foes seize on chance to overturn Roe; State and federal lawmakers push new restrictions in pursuit of a winning court challenge”: Jennifer Haberkorn of Politico has this report.

Posted at 3:39 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Case on Sales Tax Rattles Merchants on Amazon; Amazon’s third-party sellers could be among those that may have to start charging consumers”: Richard Rubin and Laura Stevens of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “South Dakota e-commerce sale tax fight reaches U.S. Supreme Court.”

And Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press reports that “Clicking ‘checkout’ could cost more after Supreme Court case.”

Posted at 3:36 PM by Howard Bashman