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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

“Lower Court Split on School Board Prayer May Hasten Supreme Court Review”: Mark Walsh has this post at the “School Law” blog of Education Week.

Posted at 10:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Activists Brace For 2019 Abortion-Rights Battles In The States”: Sarah McCammon had this audio segment on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Posted at 9:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Blackburn, Ernst become first GOP women to serve on Senate Judiciary”: Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico has this report.

Posted at 8:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“Victorious RBG: A portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a young woman; ‘On the Basis of Sex’ is a bracing story of gender equality in America.” Steven Mazie has this movie review online at The Economist.

Posted at 5:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Will The Supreme Court Fast-Track Cases Involving Trump? One case is already on the docket.” Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux has this post at FiveThirtyEight.

Posted at 3:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ann Hopkins: The accountant who struck a blow against gender stereotyping.” Emily Bazelon had this reminiscence in “The Lives They Lived 2018” feature in this past Sunday’s issue of The New York Times Magazine.

Posted at 3:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Conquerors of the Courts: Forget Trump’s Supreme Court picks; The Federalist Society’s impact on the law goes much deeper.” David Montgomery has this article online at The Washington Post Magazine.

Posted at 3:39 PM by Howard Bashman



“Article III Standing in Frank v. Gaos; Why I think there is standing: Think property, not privacy.” Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 8:30 AM by Howard Bashman



Tuesday, January 1, 2019

“Conservative Supreme Court could reverse decades of First Amendment law”: Elliot Mincberg has this essay online at The Hill.

Posted at 3:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Kansas judge rules telemedicine abortions can continue”: John Hanna of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A judge ruled Monday that Kansas cannot stop telemedicine abortions, thwarting the latest attempt by state lawmakers to prevent doctors from providing pregnancy-ending pills to women they see by remote video conferences.”

Posted at 11:03 AM by Howard Bashman



“Old Acquaintances Help Us Remember History; Justice Holmes spoke of his Civil War service to his clerk, who relayed the story to me in the 1970s”: Fay Vincent has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 11:02 AM by Howard Bashman