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Monday, October 8, 2018

“Trump stokes tensions over Supreme Court confirmation battle as Kavanaugh set to take seat on the bench”: Ashley Parker and John Wagner of The Washington Post have this report.

Rebecca Ballhaus of The Wall Street Journal reports that “At Ceremonial Swearing-In, Trump Apologizes to Kavanaugh for His ‘Pain and Suffering’; In attendance were a handful of Republican senators and the other eight Supreme Court justices.”

Richard Wolf and John Fritze of USA Today report that “Trump says Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was ‘proven innocent’ in confirmation battle.”

Dave Boyer of The Washington Times reports that “Trump apologizes to Kavanaugh for ‘pain and suffering’ during swearing-in ceremony.”

Mark Sherman and Jill Colvin of The Associated Press report that “Trump apologizes to Kavanaugh during swearing-in ceremony.”

Jess Mason of Reuters reports that “Kavanaugh seeks new tone after Supreme Court fight; Trump apologizes for process.”

And Toluse Olorunnipa and Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News report that “Trump Apologizes to Kavanaugh And Declares Him ‘Proven Innocent.’

Posted at 9:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump ‘apologizes’ to Kavanaugh, says he was ‘proven innocent’; The remarks came at the White House ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for the new Supreme Court justice Monday night”: Lauren Egan of NBC News has this report.

Posted at 8:21 PM by Howard Bashman



“Harvard Law Review Suit Opens New Front in Admissions-Bias Fight”: Bob Van Voris of Bloomberg News has an article that begins, “Harvard and New York University were sued by a group that claims their law schools illegally use race and gender as criteria for selecting law students to staff their most elite academic journals.”

Posted at 5:49 PM by Howard Bashman



“Chief Justice John Roberts Now Gets To Decide What To Do With His Supreme Court; Roberts, already playing a pivotal role as the chief justice, is now likely to be the center vote on the court as well”: Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News has this report.

Posted at 5:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Didn’t Just Get A New Supreme Court Justice — He’ll Get Another DC Circuit Judge, Too; Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation opens up a new seat on the powerful federal appeals court in Washington, long a springboard to the US Supreme Court”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report.

Posted at 3:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Christine Blasey Ford Can’t Return Home Due To ‘Unending’ Threats, Lawyers Say”: Nick Visser of HuffPost has this report.

Posted at 1:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“New justice on the bench: Kavanaugh’s first Supreme Court cases; The court could soon decide to take up some hot-button issues, and the newest justice will likely play a decisive role.” Pete Williams of NBC News has this report.

Posted at 1:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Justice Kavanaugh’s History-Making Class Of Clerks; All four are women, a first at One First Street, and thanks to them, women constitute a majority of this Term’s clerks — the first time this has happened in SCOTUS history.” David Lat has this post at “Above the Law.”

Posted at 1:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Brett Kavanaugh’s Church Community Reacts”: This audio segment featuring Washington Post reporter Michelle Boorstein appeared on yesterday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Earlier, The Post published an article written by Boorstein headlined “Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination fight is dividing his D.C. Catholic church.”

Yesterday’s broadcast of that NPR program also contained an audio segment titled “What Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Means For America’s Culture Wars.”

Posted at 11:32 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action: With a lawsuit against Harvard, Asian-American activists have formed an alliance with a white conservative to change higher education.” Hua Hsu has this article in the October 15, 2018 issue of The New Yorker.

Posted at 11:24 AM by Howard Bashman



“A High-Stakes Immigration Case Hits the Supreme Court: Nielsen v. Preap will determine whether thousands of longtime U.S. residents face indefinite detention without a hearing.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 11:16 AM by Howard Bashman



“A Tainting of Judicial Independence”: At the “Take Care” blog, Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq have a post that begins, “The confirmation process of Brett Kavanaugh has been decried by many for damaging the Senate’s norms of civility and the Supreme Court’s nonpartisan reputation. But that process, and in particular the September 27 hearing on allegations of attempted rape by Kavanaugh, has had a much more specific risk to the Court as an independent institution. This risk will cast a disabling shadow on any vote cast by a Justice Kavanaugh in a case that yields predictable partisan divisions.”

Posted at 11:14 AM by Howard Bashman