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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



“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



“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



“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



“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



“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



“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