In Bashman news from Queens: QNS recently had a report headlined “Robbers bash man in the head on the stairwell of an Elmhurst subway station.”

“AG Maura Healey can pursue lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s birth control policy, Appeals Court rules”: Shira Schoenberg of The Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued today.

“Textualism for Realists”: In the April 2019 issue of the Michigan Law Review, Ian Samuel had this review of Richard L. Hasen‘s book, “The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption.”

“Wesleyan lawyers ask Supreme Court to overturn ruling that forced them to let students live in fraternity house”: Kathleen McWilliams of The Hartford Courant has this report.

“‘I Want To Be A Bartender’: Vt. Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Skoglund On Retirement.” Henry Epp and Sawyer Loftus of Vermont Public Radio have this report.

“Justice Joe Williams becomes first Māori Supreme Court judge”: The New Zealand Herald has this report.

“William Barr’s Justice Department Just Filed the Most Nakedly Political Brief in the Agency’s History”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“U.S. Supreme Court strips TVA of automatic immunity from some lawsuits”: Jamie Satterfield of The Knoxville News Sentinel has this report.

And Joel Porter of WHNT News 19 reports that “Huntsville attorney wins Supreme Court ruling in TVA lawsuit.”

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg to visit Buffalo in August”: Stephen T. Watson of The Buffalo News has this report.

“A woman has accused India’s top judge of sexual harassment, engulfing the Supreme Court in turmoil”: Niha Masih of The Washington Post has an article that begins, “India’s #MeToo movement has reached the highest court in the land, in a case that is testing the legal system’s ability to effectively address sexual harassment allegations against men in the judiciary.”