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Friday, May 1, 2020

“Supreme Court livestreams are high stakes test for justices, public; Millions will get first opportunity to hear justices working, in real time”: Devin Dwyer of ABC News has this report.

Posted at 11:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“D.C. judge: U.S. courts’ administrative agency can’t bar employees’ political speech.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

Posted at 10:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“771 lawsuits — and counting: Wave of virus litigation hits businesses across the U.S.” Shayna Jacobs of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 9:18 PM by Howard Bashman



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

Posted at 5:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“On nonunanimous jury issue, Supreme Court sends Jace Crehan murder case to appeals court”: Joe Gyan Jr. of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana has this report.

Posted at 11:02 AM by Howard Bashman



“If Adrian Vermeule Didn’t Exist, Would Originalists Have to Invent Him?” Mike Rappaport has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

Posted at 11:00 AM by Howard Bashman



“The latest on the national injunction at the Supreme Court; SCOTUS amici versus John Harrison”: Samuel Bray has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 10:56 AM by Howard Bashman



“High court poised to set ground rules for next round in quarantine fight”: Online at The Detroit Free Press, columnist Brian Dickerson has an essay that begins, “It’s been six weeks since the seven members of Michigan’s highest court met in the flesh, and so far they have watched the pandemic’s advance the same way most of us have, from the security and isolation of their own kitchens, family rooms and home offices.”

Posted at 10:50 AM by Howard Bashman



The Guardian (UK) has published additional articles in its ongoing series titled “Trump’s court takeover”: Tom McCarthy has an article headlined “How Trump has tipped the scales in America’s most powerful courts; How three appeals courts are becoming more conservative with the arrival of judges picked by Trump — and what that means for cases on issues like voting rights.”

Victoria Bekiempis has an article headlined “Meet some of Trump’s most conservative judicial picks; The Trump administration has appointed record numbers of judges to the federal courts, and progressive activists say some exemplify a strong conservatism that puts social protections at risk.”

David Smith has an article headlined “Trump is seizing the courts — only a Democratic win in November can stop him; Trump’s transformation of the federal judiciary means the stakes have never been higher in an election than they are for Democrats.”

And Mona Chalabi has an item titled “Datablog: Trump’s courts takeover is male and white; Progress towards more diversity stalled under Trump as some 85% of his picks were white and 76% were men.”

Posted at 10:48 AM by Howard Bashman