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Friday, October 11, 2019

“I listened to the Supreme Court argue about my rights as a trans person. I have never felt more frustrated. There was a lot of talk about bathrooms during cases about work discrimination.” Katelyn Burns has this essay online at Vox.

Posted at 10:23 PM by Howard Bashman



“Congress Can Seek Trump’s Financial Records, Appeals Court Rules”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this report.

David A. Fahrenthold, Spencer S. Hsu, and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post report that “Appeals court rules against Trump in fight with Congress over president’s accounting firm records.”

Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Appeals Court Says House Can Subpoena Trump Accounting Records; Oversight committee seeking eight years of financial records for the president, his real-estate company and other entities.”

Bart Jansen and Kristine Phillips of USA Today report that “Trump’s longtime accounting firm must provide financial records to Congress, appeals court rules.”

Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times reports that “Appeals court rules House can subpoena Trump financial records.”

Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press report that “Appeals court rules House should get Trump financial records.”

Jan Wolfe of Reuters reports that “U.S. court backs House request for Trump’s financial records.”

Andrew M Harris and Bob Van Voris of Bloomberg News report that “Trump Records Must Be Given to the House, Appeals Court Says.”

Katelyn Polantz of CNN reports that “Trump loses appeal to stop House subpoena of his tax documents.”

Darren Samuelsohn and Josh Gerstein of Politico report that “Trump loses appeal to withhold financial records from Democrats; House Democrats had issued a subpoena to obtain records from the president’s accounting firm.”

Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “A Court Ruled, Again, That Trump’s Accounting Firm Must Turn Over Financial Documents To House Democrats; The DC Circuit rejected President Donald Trump’s argument that the House Oversight Committee didn’t have authority to issue a subpoena to his accounting firm.”

In commentary, online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “A Trump-Appointed Judge Is Running Interference for the President on His Financial Records.”

And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “Trump claims Congress can’t investigate his finances; He just lost big in court; Turns out, the president is not above the law.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

Posted at 7:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“Abortion medication to be available at California’s college health centers under new law”: Melody Gutierrez of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Posted at 7:23 PM by Howard Bashman



“Federal appeals court bars Ohio from enforcing Down syndrome abortion ban”: Eric Heisig of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report.

Jessie Balmert of The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that “Ohio’s Down syndrome abortion ban blocked by federal appeals court.”

Kantele Franko and Julie Carr Smyth of The Associated Press report that “Ruling leaves Ohio ban on Down syndrome abortions on hold.”

Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports that “Ohio ban on Down syndrome abortion blocked by U.S. appeals court.”

Morgan Phillips of Fox News reports that “Appeals court blocks Ohio ban on Down syndrome abortions.”

And Jessie Hellmann of The Hill reports that “Appeals court blocks Ohio Down syndrome abortion ban.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 7:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“Dan Markel murder trial verdict: Jury finds Sigfredo Garcia guilty, deadlocked on Katherine Magbanua.” Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report. The judge has instructed the jury to continue deliberating as to the second defendant.

Posted at 3:07 PM by Howard Bashman