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Monday, December 31, 2018

“States needs to stop passing flagrantly unconstitutional antiabortion laws”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 7:36 PM by Howard Bashman



“Chief Justice Pushes for Tougher Measures to Shield Court Workers From Harassment”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Chief Justice Roberts notes progress in protecting judicial employees from misconduct.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Chief Justice Roberts lauds progress against sexual harassment by federal judges.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today has an article headlined “Chief Justice John Roberts: Federal judges must end abuse, harassment.”

Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press reports that “Chief justice details efforts to combat workplace misconduct.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Judiciary Started Addressing Workplace Misconduct, Roberts Says.”

You can access at this link the text of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.’s 2018 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary.

Posted at 6:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“N.Y.’s New Attorney General Is Targeting Trump. Will Judges See a ‘Political Vendetta’?” Jeffery C. Mays of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 1:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘Free Speech’ Means Just That; A too-broad interpretation of the Constitution’s free-speech clause protects things that have nothing to do with speech and makes other clauses superfluous”: Law professor John Yoo and James C. Phillips have this essay online at National Review.

Posted at 8:50 AM by Howard Bashman



“Trump’s tweets: Judges in government secrecy cases say they are ‘speculation’ and not ‘pure fact.'” Bart Jansen of USA Today has this article, in which Ian Samuel is quoted.

Posted at 8:44 AM by Howard Bashman



“Top 10 stories of 2018: Wildfires, Supreme Court fury, a new mayor and a DNA breakthrough.” Michael Cabanatuan of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

Posted at 8:40 AM by Howard Bashman



“China’s supreme court forced to admit it lost documents in long-running contract dispute; Supreme Court of China starts investigation after popular blogger reports that papers went missing two years ago”: Catherine Wong of The South China Morning Post has this report.

Posted at 8:35 AM by Howard Bashman



“Pueblo man heads to Supreme Court”: Peter Roper of The La Junta (Colo.) Tribune-Democrat has an article that begins, “When he was a young, aspiring journalist, Dennis Obduskey would have loved to sit in the U.S. Supreme Court, listening as justices challenged lawyers with tough questions about the meaning of the Constitution or an act of Congress or some other essential legal issue.”

Posted at 8:33 AM by Howard Bashman