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Friday, November 22, 2019

“Statement in Response to Attorney General Barr’s Address at Federalist Society”: The co-founders and additional members of Checks & Balances posted this statement online today.

In news coverage of the statement, Katie Benner of The New York Times has an article headlined “Barr’s Legal Views Come Under Fire From Conservative-Leaning Lawyers; A speech by Mr. Barr last week, in which he argued that Mr. Trump had never overstepped his authority, so alarmed a group of lawyers that they felt compelled to push back publicly.”

Posted at 9:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Comcast Scrutinized After Racial Bias Hearing at Supreme Court; Paula Madison, a former executive at NBCU, follows Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs this week in challenging Comcast’s commitment to diversity”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

Posted at 9:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Facebook Executive Joel Kaplan ‘Helped Quarterback’ His Pal Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS Nomination; While the Facebook policy chief’s ties to Kavanaugh were widely known, a new book reports that Kaplan played a key role in lobbying for the judge’s nomination in the first place”: Maxwell Tani and Andrew Kirell of The Daily Beast have this report.

Posted at 9:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Bill Barr says he’d take fight to restart federal executions to Supreme Court if needed”: Vandana Rambaran of Fox News has this report.

Posted at 9:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Historical marker commemorates Bloomington’s 1973 landmark Supreme Court case Hess v. Indiana”: Carson TerBush of The Indiana Daily Student has this report.

Posted at 12:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“My Experience on the Supreme Court Bar Line for the DACA Case; I arrived at 3:11 a.m., and almost did not make it into the Court”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 12:36 PM by Howard Bashman



“An Unfair Accusation of Partisanship against the Roberts Court”: John O. McGinnis has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

Posted at 12:32 PM by Howard Bashman