“Democratic presidential candidates come under pressure to release Supreme Court picks”: Seung Min Kim of The Washington Post has this report.
And Tyler Olson of Fox News reports that “Liberals push 2020 Dems to release Supreme Court shortlist.”
“The Supreme Court Case Testing the Limits of Gorsuch’s Textualism; If the justice rules against LGBTQ protections, he’ll be admitting that, deep down, he knows his judicial philosophy is deeply flawed”: Law professor Richard Primus has this essay online at Politico Magazine.
“Trump emoluments case over his D.C. hotel gets second chance in legal challenge”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.
Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times reports that “Appeals court to re-hear Trump emoluments case.”
Denise Lavoie of The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court to hold rehearing on Trump hotel lawsuit.”
Jan Wolfe of Reuters reports that “U.S. appeals court to revisit Trump win in hotel ’emoluments’ case.”
Andrew M Harris of Bloomberg News reports that “Trump Emoluments Challenge to Get Rehearing in Appeals Court.”
Pete Williams of NBC News reports that “Appeals court revives Trump emoluments lawsuit; A federal appeals court will rehear a lawsuit that challenges the president’s ownership of a luxury hotel five blocks from the White House.”
Katelyn Polantz of CNN reports that “Appeals court revives emoluments lawsuit against Trump.”
And Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that “Appeals court revives emoluments suit against Trump; The Fourth Circuit’s full bench will hear arguments in the case brought by D.C. and Maryland.”
You can access today’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granting rehearing en banc at this link.
“Dan Markel murder trial: Garcia gets life, now prosecutors turn their attention to Magbanua.” Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.
“Who is, and is not, on the Demand Justice #SCOTUS (Not-So) Shortlist? Omitting all ‘partners at corporate law firms’ excludes most judges from Hillary Clinton’s hypothetical shortlist.” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
“Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Clash Hits Pivotal Point at Supreme Court”: Greg Stohr and Michelle Kaske of Bloomberg News have this report.
Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases, but the Court did request the views of the Solicitor General in one case.
“Wyoming tribe to begin off-reservation hunting following Supreme Court ruling”: Chris Aadland of The Casper Star-Tribune has an article that begins, “A Wyoming tribe said Monday that it is planning to start allowing its citizens to hunt off-reservation, months after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling affirmed a different tribe’s treaty right to hunt outside of its reservation.”
“Your Neighbor’s Christian Education, Courtesy of Your Tax Dollars; The Court will hear one of the most notable ‘Church and state’ cases in years”: Emma Green of The Atlantic has this report.
“‘My life was shattered.’ Dan Markel’s mother says son’s murder continues to torment family.” Nate Chute of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.
“Grossmont College student Simon Tam returns to talk Supreme Court and slurs; How Simon Tam took the fight to call his Asian-American band the Slants to the Supreme Court”: Columnist Karla Peterson has this essay online at The San Diego Union-Tribune.
“There Are Way Too Many Prosecutors in the Federal Judiciary; It’s time for a moratorium”: Clark Neily of the Cato Institute has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“What if the Supreme Court Had an L.G.B.T. Justice? There might be fewer arguments about bathrooms, for starters.” Jesse Wegman had this essay in the Sunday Review section of yesterday’s edition of The New York Times.
“High court to consider state role in prosecuting immigrants”: Roxana Hegeman of The Associated Press has this report.
“Puerto Rico at the Supreme Court: Congress has the power to manage territories as it wants.” The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.
“Is the Trump Impeachment Saga Kavanaugh 2.0? Some Republicans Hope So; Republicans who cast the impeachment inquiry as a yet another partisan character assassination may find it difficult to rally the same kind of unified support that helped Brett Kavanaugh.” Jeremy W. Peters of The New York Times has this report.
“Jurors begin considering death penalty for Dan Markel murderer Sigfredo Garcia”: Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.
And Ashley Trawick and Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat have an article headlined “Dan Markel murder trial: What happens next to Sigfredo Garcia, Katherine Magbanua and the Adelson family?“
“Recent Pa. High Court Ruling Could Lead to Change in That Court’s Allocatur Practice”: This month’s installment of my “Upon Further Review” column will appear in tomorrow’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.
“What would happen if Trump ignored a divided Supreme Court ruling against him? How Friday’s ruling against the president could lead to a true constitutional crisis.” Law professor Steve Vladeck has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“Heads Up: A Ruling On The Latest Challenge To The Affordable Care Act Is Coming.” Selena Simmons-Duffin of NPR has this report.
“Changes to the Federal Courts: Trump’s Most Significant and Lasting Legacy.” Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.
“Then and Now: 1800’s Supreme Court Patent Cases.” Dennis Crouch has this post at his “Patently-O” blog.
“‘Faithless Electors’ Could Tip the 2020 Election. Will the Supreme Court Stop Them?” Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.
“Supreme Court to consider whether sniper Lee Malvo should be resentenced; The high court ruled that juveniles cannot receive mandatory life sentences’ Virginia argues that Malvo’s sentence wasn’t mandatory”: Tom Jackman of The Washington Post has this report.
“Impeachment Inquiry Challenges Balance of Power in Washington; Previous efforts have transformed the relationship between Congress and the Presidency”: Byron Tau of The Wall Street Journal has an article that begins, “The widening conflict between the Democratic-led House of Representatives and the Trump administration could alter the balance of power between Congress, the presidency and the courts for years.”
“Supreme Court to weigh Virginia life sentences in Washington sniper case”: Horus Alas of Capital News Service has this report.
“Another Kavanaugh confirmation book on the way, this one claiming Republicans plotted ‘takeover’ of Supreme Court”: Sam Dorman of Fox News has this report.
“The Supreme Court could get a lot more undemocratic”: Law professor Leah Litman has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“Inside Notes Illuminate How Supreme Court Decided Major Cases; A new project is digitizing justices’ behind-the-scenes scribbles, allowing the public a view as the nation’s most powerful jurists decided landmarks of American law”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
“Affirmative action case looked like trouble for Harvard — so how did it win so decisively?” Deirdre Fernandes of The Boston Globe has this report.
And The Washington Post has published an editorial titled “A judge made the right call in upholding Harvard’s admissions system.”
“Porn Producers Accused of Fooling Women Get Sex Trafficking Charges; Young women say that they responded to ads seeking models and were tricked into performing”: Adeel Hassan and Katie Van Syckle have this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.
Pauline Repard of The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that “Four linked to porn website indicted on federal sex trafficking charges; The owner, principals with GirlsDoPorn website also are being sued in civil court by 22 women who allege they were told lies when they agreed to be in sex videos.”
Tarpley Hitt of The Daily Beast reports that “Feds Charge Shady Porn Company Girls Do Porn With Sex Trafficking After 22 Women Come Forward; In the wake of The Daily Beast’s reporting, federal charges were filed against the owners and one employee of Girls Do Porn, which allegedly conned young women into XXX fare.”
Samantha Cole of Vice reports that “‘Girls Do Porn’ Employees Charged With Sex Trafficking, Potentially Face Life in Prison; The owners and employees of Girls Do Porn are on trial for coercing and lying to women about the way their films would be spread online.”
And Bianca Bruno of Courthouse News Service reports that “Porn Company Charged by Feds for Sex Trafficking.”
On Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California issued a news release titled “GirlsDoPorn Owners and Employees Charged in Sex Trafficking Conspiracy.” You can access the criminal complaint at this link.
“Dan Markel case: Family says justice ‘partially served’ with murder verdict and mistrial.” Karl Etters and Jeff Burlew have this front page article in today’s edition of The Tallahassee Democrat.
In today’s edition of The New York Times, Patricia Mazzei has an article headlined “Man Convicted in Murder of Law Professor Locked in Family Feud; A jury found Sigfredo Garcia guilty of first-degree murder in the 2014 killing of Dan Markel.”
In today’s edition of The Miami Herald, Mary Ellen Klas has a front page article headlined “Jury convicts hit man in shooting of FSU professor, declares mistrial for girlfriend.” Earlier this week, Samantha J. Gross, Mary Ellen Klas, Nicholas Nehmas, and David Ovalle of The Miami Herald had an article headlined “Who paid for hit on FSU prof? In lurid trial, a Broward dentist’s name keeps coming up.”
And in today’s edition of The South Florida Sun Sentinel, Tonya Alanez has a front page article headlined “South Florida hit man faces death penalty for killing FSU professor, but mistrial for girlfriend.”
“The last of the sketch artists on cameras in the US Supreme Court”: Ephrat Livni of Quartz has this report.
“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.
“Farewell to the blog”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this final post today at his “Under the Radar” blog. Josh, who has been a good friend to this blog from its outset, will continue tweeting and writing articles for Politico.