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Friday, May 25, 2018

“George Conway’s Tweets Raise West Wing Eyebrows; The spicy Twitter feed of Kellyanne Conway’s husband has gotten noticed in the Oval Office; But friends say the real target of his ire isn’t Donald Trump”: Annie Karni has this profile, in which the Federalist Society and its role in the judicial nomination process receive lots of attention, online at Politico Magazine.

Posted at 11:59 AM by Howard Bashman



Thursday, May 24, 2018

“Will He Stay Or Will He Go? On Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s Rumored Retirement From The Supreme Court.” David Lat has this post at “Above the Law.”

Posted at 11:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘RBG’ filmmaker discusses pioneer Supreme Court justice at Concord theater”: Leah Willingham of The Concord (N.H.) Monitor has this report.

Posted at 11:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ten Commandments at Arkansas Capitol stirs 2 lawsuits; Filers allege affront to their beliefs”: Linda Satter has this front page article in today’s edition of The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Posted at 11:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“Attention, America: We’ve All Been Saying Gerrymander Wrong; Elbridge Gerry, the New England politician whose political map inspired a cartoon, pronounced his name with a hard G.” Reid J. Epstein and Madeline Marshall will have this front page article in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 10:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Court Uses Declaratory Judgment, Avoids Injunction to Get Trump to Unblock Twitter Followers: Will It Work?” Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog.”

Posted at 10:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“Boyertown transgender students can use facilities based on their gender identity, appeals court rules; The federal appeals court rejected an appeal by four high school students who wanted to overturn the district’s bathroom policy”: Matt Carey of The Reading (Pa.) Eagle has this report.

Jeremy Roebuck of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that “Appeals court OKs Boyertown schools’ policy letting transgender students use bathrooms of their choice.”

Peter Hall of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania reports that “Appeals court upholds Boyertown transgender bathroom policy.”

Claudia Lauer of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: School can let trans students use bathroom of choice.”

And at his “CA3blog,” Matthew Stiegler has a post titled “Court affirms in transgender-bathroom appeal . . . a half hour after oral argument.”

Posted at 10:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“Live from D.C. (but not the Supreme Court), it’s Merrick Garland!” Columnist Michael McGough has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 9:34 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Notebook: Flip-flops and summer plans.” Jessica Gresko and Mark Sherman of The Associated Press have this report.

Posted at 7:50 PM by Howard Bashman



Wednesday, May 23, 2018

“The Limits of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Usefulness: A transactional theology.” Noah Rothman has this post at the blog of Commentary magazine.

Posted at 11:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Much Longer Can Rod Rosenstein Protect Robert Mueller?” Jeffrey Toobin has this post online at The New Yorker.

Posted at 9:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Stegner appointed to Supreme Court; University of Idaho grad set to become only North Idaho justice on state’s highest court”: Kara McMurray has this front page article in today’s edition of The Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

Posted at 9:23 PM by Howard Bashman



“Kansas Supreme Court expresses doubt about five-year, $525M education package”: Tim Carpenter of The Topeka Capital-Journal has this report.

Posted at 9:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“How the Supreme Court is invoking a 1925 law to restrict workers’ rights today”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Posted at 9:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Regardless of How the Supreme Court Rules in ‘Janus,’ Labor Needs to Get More Militant; The teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Kentucky show us that successful labor action can happen in any environment”: Michelle Chen has this essay online at The Nation.

Posted at 1:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Gay Kentucky man loses bid to challenge GOP clerk Kim Davis”: Adam Beam and Dylan Lovan of The Associated Press have this report.

Posted at 1:44 PM by Howard Bashman