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Thursday, April 30, 2020

“Hypocrisy Charges Aren’t Always a Double-Edged Sword: 2nd Amendment Mootness & Wisconsin Election Edition.” Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

Posted at 9:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“Senate Republicans to Push Ahead on Judges Over Democratic Objections; The Judiciary Committee is poised to consider the nomination of a McConnell protégé to an influential appeals court, while Democrats say the focus should be on the pandemic”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 9:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“When the Supreme Court Upheld a Compulsory Vaccination Law; Infectious disease, public health, and the Constitution”: Damon Root has this post online at Reason.

Posted at 7:21 PM by Howard Bashman



“Courtroom access: No ‘performances,’ just a ‘massive civics lesson’ when supreme courts overseas live-stream their hearings.” Amy Howe has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

Posted at 7:11 PM by Howard Bashman



“What is at stake as the Supreme Court weighs the future of immigrant ‘Dreamers'”: Ted Hesson of Reuters has this report.

Posted at 7:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘Contraception is medicine,’ AG Shapiro says as Supreme Court showdown with Trump Administration looms”: Matt Miller of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report.

Posted at 7:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Federal Judge Has a Plan to Let Politicians Manipulate Elections With Impunity; The Supreme Court’s partisan gerrymandering decision could soon harm democracy even more”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 7:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Whitehouse Effect at the Supreme Court: Democrats think they’ve found a way to move John Roberts to the left.” This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Also in today’s edition of that newspapers, U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) have a letter to the editor titled “Moot Points, Gun Laws and the Supreme Court; The Journal’s editorial board would like to blame us for the failure of a major 2nd Amendment challenge at the Supreme Court.”

Posted at 6:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court May Soon Give Trump More Power to Fire Anyone He Wants; And Congress would be powerless to stop him”: Law professor Leah Litman has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 2:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court Could Cripple America’s Pandemic-Fighting Capacity, Part I”: Simon Lazarus has this guest post at the “Balkinization” blog.

Posted at 2:14 PM by Howard Bashman