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Thursday, September 5, 2019

“End Nationwide Injunctions: The Dreamers case shows how willful courts can ruin the chance for political compromise.” U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 11:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to speak at Amherst College”: Ray Kelly of The Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts has this report.

Posted at 9:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Tennessee Supreme Court hears arguments on pro-business law that caps awards by juries”: Jamie Satterfield of The Knoxville News Sentinel has this report.

Posted at 9:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“Delaware asks Supreme Court to review its bipartisan judge-picking process”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post. You can view the petition for writ of certiorari at this link.

Posted at 9:34 PM by Howard Bashman



“Texas hoping to revive law on burial of fetal remains”: Kevin McGill of The Associated Press has this report.

Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News has an article headlined “Texas Law Requires Patients to Bury or Cremate Fetal Tissue. Now, the Fifth Circuit Is Weighing In. Anti-abortion advocates hope they can get the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to help advance fetal ‘personhood.’

Earlier, in commentary available online from Slate, Jane Maienschein had an article headlined “Dead Fetuses Are Not ‘Remains’; The insidiousness of state laws intended to require the burial or cremation of miscarried or aborted fetuses.”

The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit assigned to hear and decide the appeal consists of Chief Judge Carl E. Stewart, Circuit Judge Gregg J. Costa, and Senior Circuit Judge Rhesa H. Barksdale. When the oral argument becomes available online, I will link to it. (This is about as good of a panel as the law’s challengers could have ever hoped to draw at the Fifth Circuit.)

Posted at 2:09 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Electoral College is Tainted, But so is the Rest of the Constitution, and America for that Matter”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

Posted at 1:08 PM by Howard Bashman