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Monday, January 13, 2020

“Supreme Court’s war on prosecutors meets ‘Bridgegate'”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

Ted Sherman of NJ Advance Media has an article headlined “Was Bridgegate Jersey-style hardball, or corruption? The U.S. Supreme Court takes up the question on Tuesday.”

Pete Williams of NBC News has a report headlined “‘Bridgegate’ scandal comes to the Supreme Court. Did prosecutors overreach? Two officials tied to then-Gov. Chris Christie were sentenced to prison for their roles in creating massive traffic jams on the N.J.-N.Y. crossing.”

Harper Neidig of The Hill reports that “Supreme Court to tackle corruption questions in Bridgegate case.”

And in commentary, today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal contained an editorial titled “A Prosecutorial Bridge Too Far: A Supreme Court case that could criminalize common political mischief.”

Posted at 11:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Court Case That Could Finally Take Down Antiquated Anti-Catholic Laws; Thirty-seven states still have Blaine Amendments on the books; The Supreme Court now has a chance to get rid of them for good”: Nick Sibilla has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 11:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump asks Supreme Court to allow public charge rule to go into effect”: Ariane de Vogue, Geneva Sands, Priscilla Alvarez, and Paul LeBlanc of CNN have this report.

Posted at 11:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Sanders says he’d consider releasing Supreme Court shortlist; The Vermont senator asserted that releasing such a list even before the Democratic nomination was ‘not a bad idea'”: Caitlin Oprysko of Politico has this report.

Posted at 11:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“In McGahn Case, an Epic Constitutional Showdown; The Supreme Court has never definitively resolved whether Congress can sue the president”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 11:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“Culture War in the Workplace: Inside the court battle over trans employment discrimination.” Melissa Gira Grant has this article online at The New Republic.

Posted at 11:36 PM by Howard Bashman



“Democratic candidates propose bigger Supreme Court to counter ‘theft of judiciary'”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

Posted at 11:34 PM by Howard Bashman