“Phony Debate Over ‘Nationwide Injunctions'”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”
Posted at 9:52 PM by Howard Bashman
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Thursday, March 5, 2020
“Phony Debate Over ‘Nationwide Injunctions'”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost on Justice.” Posted at 9:52 PM by Howard Bashman“Forum Shopping is Rational; Advocates on the right and the left choose their ideal forum, as they should”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” Posted at 9:48 PM by Howard Bashman“The Justices Punt on Religious Liberty; They should overturn a 1977 ruling against private employees who need accommodation”: Nathan Lewin has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal. Posted at 9:45 PM by Howard Bashman“Our courts also have a big corruption problem”: Columnist Paul Waldman has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 9:42 PM by Howard Bashman“Schumer and the War on Judges: From court-packing plans to intimidation, the Democrats pursue a losing strategy.” Columnist Kimberley A. Strassel has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal. Posted at 9:38 PM by Howard Bashman“The McGahn ruling could shred Congress’s ability to oversee the executive branch”: The Washington Post has published this editorial. Posted at 9:36 PM by Howard Bashman“Free Speech for Lawyers: The Supreme Court may soon hear challenges to bar-association dues.” The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial. Posted at 9:32 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme court chief denies judges trying to ‘grab’ power from parliament; Lord Reed also warns against US-style selection of judges based on their political views”: Owen Bowcott of The Guardian (UK) has a report that begins, “Judges are not staging a power grab to take over parliament’s role and do not make up law ‘as we go along,’ the new president of the supreme court has told a parliamentary committee. In a robust defence of judicial independence in the face of government plans to change the UK’s constitution, Lord Reed of Allermuir warned that US-style confirmation hearings to select judges on the basis of their political views would be ‘really intolerable.'” Posted at 8:30 PM by Howard Bashman“As Supreme Court Mulls Dreamers, Kushner Revives Immigration Plan; The president’s son-in-law is hoping that a looming ruling will spur interest in his proposal, which is similar to one he tried to push last year”: Maggie Haberman and Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times have this report. Posted at 8:17 PM by Howard Bashman“Why Schumer’s apology about his Supreme Court remarks isn’t enough”: George T. Conway III has this essay online at The Washington Post. And online at Bloomberg Opinion, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay titled “Chuck Schumer’s Bizarre Supreme Court Threat: The Senate minority leader was completely out of line in telling two conservative justices they had ‘released the whirlwind.’“ Posted at 8:02 PM by Howard Bashman“Frontrunners Emerge for New Vacancy on Influential Appeals Court”: Kevin Daley of The Washington Free Beacon has this report. Posted at 7:49 PM by Howard Bashman“High Court Access Crunch Underscored at Abortion Case”: Jordan S. Rubin and Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law have this report. Posted at 2:23 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump just got the chance to pick another judge for the influential appeals court in D.C.” Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report. Posted at 1:57 PM by Howard Bashman“Cashing in on justice: Three Senate Judiciary members outpace colleagues in contributions from judicial nominees.” Joshua Eaton, Ilana Marcus, and Ed Timms of Roll Call have this report. And the current episode of the “CQ on Congress” podcast, with Shawn Zeller and Evan Campbell, is titled “Pay-to-play in the judiciary.” Posted at 1:48 PM by Howard Bashman“2019 vote studies: Markey leads in voting against judicial nominees; Massachusetts Democrat says Trump nominees ‘overwhelmingly’ unqualified.” Shawn Zeller of Roll Call has this report. Posted at 1:44 PM by Howard Bashman“Schumer says he misspoke in remarks directed at two Supreme Court justices, defends abortion rights”: John Wagner of The Washington Post has this report. Erin B. Logan of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Schumer apologizes for attacks on Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.” Lindsay Wise of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Schumer Says He Regrets Supreme Court Comments; Senate minority leader says ‘I shouldn’t have used the words I did, but in no way was I making a threat.’” Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has an article headlined “Schumer: ‘I should not have used the words I used’ against Gorsuch, Kavanaugh.” Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Schumer Says He Regrets He Words Used to Blast Kavanaugh, Gorsuch.” Chandelis Duster of CNN reports that “Schumer says he used the wrong words following Supreme Court backlash.” Rebecca Shabad of NBC News reports that “Schumer denies threatening Supreme Court justices, but says, ‘I shouldn’t have used the words I did’; At an abortion-rights rally outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Schumer slammed Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.” Ronn Blitzer and Chad Pergram of Fox News report that “McConnell slams Schumer on Senate floor for controversial remarks directed at Supreme Court justices.” Andrew Desiderio of Politico reports that “Schumer walks back SCOTUS comments after Roberts rebuke; ‘I should not have used the words I used yesterday. They did not come out the way I intended to,’ the minority leader says.” Jordain Carney of The Hill reports that “Schumer walks back words he used on Supreme Court justices.” In commentary, online at The Washington Post, columnist Ruth Marcus has an essay titled “John Roberts was right to castigate Chuck Schumer.” And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “The controversy over Chuck Schumer’s attack on Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, explained; Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Supreme Court tirade is a symptom of America’s democratic decline.” Posted at 1:38 PM by Howard Bashman“Schumer Comments Draw Rebuke From Chief Justice Roberts”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.” Posted at 12:00 PM by Howard Bashman“2 Jurors Voted to Spare His Life. Alabama Is Set to Execute Him. Nathaniel Woods was condemned by a judge even though a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on his sentence. Advocates are urging the governor to intervene before his execution on Thursday.” Rick Rojas of The New York Times has this report. In today’s edition of The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Melissa Brown has a front page article headlined “MLK’s son asks Alabama to stop upcoming execution as federal stay is denied.” And Kirsten Fiscus and Melissa Brown of The Montgomery Advertiser have an article headlined “‘Give us time’: Family of Nathaniel Woods set for execution makes plea to Gov. Ivey.” And Ivana Hrynkiw of Alabama Media Group reports that “Nathaniel Woods, convicted of killing 3 police officers, asks for stay before 6 p.m. execution.” Posted at 11:42 AM by Howard Bashman“Wreath, Crest, and Gavel: Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s Cadillac-based artwork The Caddy Court is commentary on the Supreme Court.” Brett Berk of Car & Driver has this report. Posted at 11:18 AM by Howard Bashman“The Supreme Court Just Gave the Border Patrol a License to Kill”: Mary Harris has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. Posted at 11:08 AM by Howard Bashman“Judge Thomas Griffith to Retire from DC Circuit, Opening Third Vacancy for Trump; The judge most recently made headlines with his opinion in the House’s lawsuit seeking to compel testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn”: Jacqueline Thomsen of The National Law Journal has this report. Posted at 11:06 AM by Howard Bashman“The Empire Strikes Back Against Originalism”: John O. McGinnis has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog. Posted at 9:50 AM by Howard Bashman |
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