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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

“‘Assault on Democracy’: A sitting federal judge takes on John Roberts, Trump and Republicans.” Fred Barbash of The Washington Post has this report.

Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has a report headlined “‘It Needed to Be Said’: Wisconsin Federal Judge Defends His Article Slamming Roberts Court.”

And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Josh Blackman has a related post titled “Judge Adelman defends his criticism of Chief Justice Roberts and President Trump.”

Posted at 4:23 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump judge lays out an aggressive plan to protect Trump from congressional oversight; Judge Neomi Rao’s opinions read like she’s acting as Trump’s personal protector”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

Posted at 2:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals Court Reviews Ohio Law Restricting Down-Syndrome Abortions; Antiabortion activists see hope that the conservative bench could uphold protection of fetuses with the genetic disorder”: Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

And Julie Carr Smyth of The Associated Press reports that “Down syndrome abortion ban is going before a federal court.”

The Sixth Circuit‘s en banc oral argument of this appeal was scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. eastern time today. When the oral argument audio recording becomes available online, I will link to it.

Posted at 1:44 PM by Howard Bashman