“We May Be Able to Get Kevin Cooper Off Death Row”: Columnist Nicholas Kristof will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018
“We May Be Able to Get Kevin Cooper Off Death Row”: Columnist Nicholas Kristof will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times. Posted at 11:59 PM by Howard Bashman“Democrats Zero In on Kavanaugh’s Defense of Presidential Power”: Sheryl Gay Stolberg will have this article in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times. Posted at 11:57 PM by Howard Bashman“TSA Agents Immune From Flyer-Abuse Lawsuits, Court Rules”: Otis Wright has this post at “The Points Guy” blog. And at his “CA3blog,” Matthew Stiegler has a post titled “New opinion — divided panel rules that TSA screeners are immune from suit.” My earlier coverage of today’s Third Circuit ruling can be accessed here. Posted at 11:44 PM by Howard Bashman“First Circuit Holds Most Anti-Libel Injunctions Are Unconstitutional; Federal and state courts are divided on whether such injunctions are constitutional, and the U.S. Supreme Court has not weighed in”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy” about a very interesting decision that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued today. Professor Volokh filed a pro se amicus brief in the case. Posted at 11:38 PM by Howard Bashman“America’s Top Justices Are Less Like The Rest of The Country Than Ever Before: How the Supreme Court went careerist.” John F. Harris and Matthew Nussbaum have this report online at Politico Magazine. Posted at 11:26 PM by Howard Bashman“Why It’s Right to Be Mad About Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court”: John Cassidy has this post online at The New Yorker. Posted at 11:24 PM by Howard Bashman“Here’s How Democrats Can Expose What Kavanaugh Threatens: Highlight his belief in unchecked presidential power, and the danger it poses to the ACA and the Mueller investigation.” Simon Lazarus has this essay online at The American Prospect. Posted at 11:22 PM by Howard Bashman“Dems decry Kavanaugh’s gun ruling: Semi-automatic rifles are like handguns, should be legal.” Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report. Posted at 11:16 PM by Howard Bashman“What It’s Like To Be A ‘Sherpa’ For A Supreme Court Nominee”: This audio segment appeared on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.” In addition, this evening’s broadcast contained an audio segment titled “How Can Lawmakers Figure Out What Supreme Court Nominees Really Think About An Issue?“ Posted at 11:14 PM by Howard Bashman“Rosenstein Asks Prosecutors to Help With Kavanaugh Papers in Unusual Request”: Katie Benner will have this article in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times. Posted at 11:04 PM by Howard Bashman“What Kavanaugh Was Secretly Caught Doing Hours After Trump’s Nomination Will Silence The Critics”: Kevin Daley of The Daily Caller has this report. And earlier this evening, I linked to a related article from The Associated Press headlined “Supreme Court nominee dishes out mac and cheese to homeless.” Posted at 11:00 PM by Howard Bashman“The elite world of Brett Kavanaugh”: Paul Schwartzman and Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post have this report. Posted at 10:28 PM by Howard Bashman“Kavanaugh would be at home on East Coast-tilted high court”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report. Posted at 10:23 PM by Howard Bashman“Senate’s First Skirmish Over Supreme Court Pick Brett Kavanaugh: How Quickly to Move; Senate GOP leaders balance pressure to hold hearings soon against requests to review potentially millions of documents.” Louise Radnofsky and Andrew Duehren will have this article in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. Also in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Stephanie Armour and Kristina Peterson will have an article headlined “Health Law Is an Issue in Fight Over Supreme Court Pick Brett Kavanaugh; Democrats warn the judge could imperil ACA, while Republicans say the debate is a distraction from his qualifications.” Louise Radnofsky and Peter Nicholas of The Wall Street Journal report that “Disclosures Show Modest Finances for Supreme Court Nominee; Brett Kavanaugh had five-figure credit-card debt in 2016 that he later paid off.” And in commentary, today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal contains an editorial titled “A Senate Deadline for Kavanaugh: Schumer wants to delay a confirmation vote past Election Day.” Columnist Daniel Henninger has an essay titled “Kavanaugh and the Culture Wars: Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nomination may give everyone a chance to step back from the political cliff.” And Greg Ip has an essay titled “The Supreme Court Won’t Stop Executive Overreach: For U.S. businesses worried about overreach by the executive branch, Judge Kavanaugh would be a mixed blessing.” Posted at 10:20 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh lauded late Chief Justice Rehnquist for dissenting in Roe vs. Wade and supporting school prayer”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report. Posted at 9:58 PM by Howard Bashman“In major abortion ruling, Kavanaugh offers clues of how he might handle divisive issue on the Supreme Court”: Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post have this report. Posted at 9:27 PM by Howard Bashman“Kavanaugh’s Exercise of Discretion: A lawyer who recently argued a case before Trump’s Supreme Court nominee relates what he learned.” Paul Rosenzweig has this essay online at The Atlantic. Posted at 7:30 PM by Howard Bashman“Amy Coney Barrett Looks Like a Future Trump SCOTUS Pick”: Ed Kilgore has this post at the “Daily Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine. Posted at 7:28 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh piled up credit card debt by purchasing Nationals tickets, White House says”: Amy Brittain of The Washington Post has this report. And Catherine Lucey of The Associated Press reports that “Supreme Court nominee dishes out mac and cheese to homeless.” Posted at 7:26 PM by Howard Bashman“On eve of impeachment meetings, Ketchum quits WV Supreme Court”: Lori Kersey and Lacie Pierson of The Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette-Mail have this report. And John Raby of The Associated Press reports that “West Virginia high court Justice Ketchum to resign, retire.” Posted at 7:23 PM by Howard Bashman“Brett Kavanaugh ’90 Nominated to U.S. Supreme Court”: On Monday night, Yale Law School posted online this news release. Posted at 6:22 PM by Howard Bashman“For Midterms, Supreme Court Political Drama Plays to Its Audience”: Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns of The New York Times have this report. Posted at 5:37 PM by Howard Bashman“Twice a Supreme Court runner-up, Hardiman is back at work”: Geoff Mulvihill of The Associated Press has this report. Posted at 2:10 PM by Howard Bashman“TSA screeners win immunity from flier abuse claims: U.S. appeals court.” Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report on a lengthy ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued today. Posted at 2:07 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump picks Kavanaugh ’87 LAW ’90 for Supreme Court”: Anastasiia Posnova of The Yale Daily News has this report. Adelaide Feibel and Hailey Fuchs of The Yale Daily News report that “Law students, alumni condemn Kavanaugh in open letter.” And the nominee’s college newspaper has posted online an item titled “Decades before nomination Brett Kavanaugh wrote about college sports.” Posted at 1:48 PM by Howard Bashman“$2 million lawsuit says Judge O’Grady harassed former employee”: John Futty had this article in The Columbus Dispatch back in January 2015. Today, the majority on a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued this decision dismissing for lack of appellate jurisdiction that judge’s appeal from the district court’s denial of qualified immunity. Posted at 1:37 PM by Howard Bashman“Does It Matter That Brett Kavanaugh Is Nice? Yes. It’s not all that matters, but it’s a factor that senators should consider as more than an afterthought.” Law professor Daniel Hemel has this post at Medium. And online at The Los Angeles Times, columnist Michael McGough has a post titled “Forget about Roe v. Wade. Did you hear Brett Kavanaugh is a great dad? And a great coach!“ Posted at 1:24 PM by Howard Bashman“Kavanaugh Reveals Modest Assets, But His Net Worth May Be Higher”: Bill Allison of Bloomberg News has this report. Posted at 1:15 PM by Howard Bashman“Judge Kavanaugh’s Former Clerks: Diverse, and Deployed to Vouch for Him.” Elizabeth Williamson of The New York Times has this report. Posted at 1:11 PM by Howard Bashman“‘Not A Complicated Case’: Kavanaugh’s Straightforward Style.” Jacqueline Bell of Law360.com has this report (subscription may be required for full access). Posted at 10:54 AM by Howard Bashman“Reinvigorating ‘Defensive Crouch Liberal Constitutionalism’ Part 1: Originalism and Searches.” Michael Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.” And online at Justia’s Verdict, Dorf has an essay titled “Can State Supreme Courts Protect Liberal Constitutionalism in the Coming Era of Reactionary SCOTUS Jurisprudence?“ Posted at 8:46 AM by Howard Bashman“Vulnerable Democrats should hope for GOP unity on Kavanaugh”: Columnist Marc A. Thiessen has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 8:44 AM by Howard Bashman“Good Behaviour #7: ‘Not an Emirate.'” You can access today’s new installment of the “First Mondays” podcast, featuring Ian Samuel and Dan Epps, via this link. Posted at 8:40 AM by Howard Bashman“Kavanaugh Bats For, Runs With His Clerks”: Melissa Heelan Stanzione of Bloomberg Law has this report. Posted at 8:32 AM by Howard Bashman |
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