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Sunday, June 28, 2020

“How Michael Flynn’s Defense Team Found Powerful Allies; A lawyer for the former national security adviser turned to the attorney general for help, and he delivered, months before a pair of appellate judges handed Mr. Flynn another legal victory”: Mark Mazzetti, Charlie Savage, and Adam Goldman of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 9:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Chief federal judge in L.A. steps down over racially insensitive comments about Black court official”: Matt Hamilton of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

According to the article, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney (C.D. Cal.) will no longer be serving as that court’s chief judge, a position he began serving in at the start of this month.

Posted at 9:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Marty Baron Made The Post Great Again. Now, the News Is Changing. The ultimate old-school editor is grappling with a moment of cultural reckoning.” In Monday’s edition of The New York Times, Ben Smith will have an article that begins, “Almost anyone who works in the Washington Post newsroom can look inside its publishing system, Methode, to see what stories are coming. And at the height of the furor over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 2018, some who did saw a shocking article awaiting publication.”

Posted at 8:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Blind Michigan Supreme Court Justice turned away by clerk’s office while trying to get absentee ballot; ‘They didn’t have any idea what the protocol was,’ Justice Richard Bernstein said”: Mara MacDonald of NBC affiliate WDIV-TV in Detroit has this report.

Posted at 2:58 PM by Howard Bashman