“Interview: Tom Goldstein.” Anna Salvatore has this post at her “High School SCOTUS” blog.
Posted at 9:50 PM by Howard Bashman
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
“Interview: Tom Goldstein.” Anna Salvatore has this post at her “High School SCOTUS” blog. Posted at 9:50 PM by Howard Bashman“US Supreme Court rejects ad challenge from state grape growers”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report. Posted at 8:04 PM by Howard Bashman“Fight over wedding invitations for same-sex couples heads to Arizona Supreme Court”: Jessica Boehm of The Arizona Republic has an article that begins, “The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in a case filed by wedding-invitation designers who are challenging a Phoenix law protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination.” And Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Star reports that “Arizona high court will hear business’ challenge of anti-discrimination law.” Posted at 7:54 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump Is Losing His War Against the Courts: The judiciary has continued to quietly deliver subtle, devastating blows to the president’s agenda.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. Posted at 7:14 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump rails against Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals”: Brett Samuels of The Hill has this report. Posted at 7:06 PM by Howard Bashman“Conservative nonprofit with obscure roots and undisclosed funders paid Matthew Whitaker $1.2 million”: Robert O’Harrow Jr., Shawn Boburg, and Aaron C. Davis of The Washington Post have this report. Bart Jansen and Steve Reilly of USA Today report that “Acting AG Matthew Whitaker released details of past income that shows $900K from nonprofit.” Jan Wolfe of Reuters has a report headlined “Explainer: Was Trump’s appointment of Whitaker lawful?” And Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News reports that “The White House Won’t Say When Trump Formally Named Matthew Whitaker As Acting Attorney General.” Posted at 5:46 PM by Howard Bashman“House Democrats target DOJ decision not to defend Obamacare”: David Morgan of Reuters has this report. Posted at 5:40 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump Wanted to Order Justice Dept. to Prosecute Comey and Clinton”: Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times have this report. Posted at 5:33 PM by Howard Bashman“Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban overturned by U.S. District judge”: Sarah Fowler of The Clarion Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi has this report. Emily Wagster Pettus of The Associated Press has a report headlined “US judge: Mississippi 15-week abortion ban unconstitutional.” And Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “A Judge Ruled That Mississippi’s 15-Week Abortion Ban Is ‘Unequivocally’ Unconstitutional.” You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi at this link. Posted at 5:30 PM by Howard BashmanIn today’s mail: I received a copy of law professor Eric J. Segall‘s new book, “Originalism as Faith.” It was great to finally meet Professor Segall earlier this month just before his presentation at the 2018 AJEI Summit in Atlanta. Posted at 4:18 PM by Howard Bashman“War court judge pursued immigration job for years while presiding over USS Cole case”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this report. Posted at 1:14 PM by Howard Bashman“Whitaker is Unfit to be Attorney General, Acting or Otherwise: Beyond the unconstitutionality of his appointment, his views on judicial review and religious litmus tests should disqualify him.” Bruce Fein has this post online at The American Conservative. Posted at 10:26 AM by Howard Bashman“Democratic Senators Challenge Whitaker Appointment in Court”: Charlie Savage and Nicholas Fandos have this article in today’s edition of The New York Times. Posted at 10:18 AM by Howard Bashman“Kavanaugh’s impact on the Supreme Court and the country may not be as profound as predicted”: Law professor Ofer Raban has this essay online at The Conversation. Posted at 10:08 AM by Howard Bashman“How the Supreme Court fractured the nation — and how it threatens to do so again: Abortion and America’s new sectional divide.” H.W. Brands has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 10:02 AM by Howard Bashman“Will Supreme Court Reargument of the Knick Takings Case Come Down to the Federal Government’s ‘Klingon Forehead’ Argument? The Supreme Court has ordered reargument in a crucial property rights case; The outcome could hinge on an extremely dubious theory put forward in an amicus brief by the federal government.” Ilya Somin has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” Posted at 9:52 AM by Howard Bashman“Who Owns Oklahoma? The Supreme Court must decide the fate of a murderer — and whether roughly half of Oklahoma is rightfully reservation land.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic. Posted at 9:50 AM by Howard Bashman |
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