“The Supreme Court invented qualified immunity. Now, a judge’s blistering opinion shows why it must go.” Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post.
Therein, Marcus writes, “Reeves, a Barack Obama nominee who sits in Jackson, Miss., and is the second Black federal judge in the history of the state, produced one of the most powerful pieces of legal writing I have encountered.” You can access the opinion at this link.
“Running on Roberts: The conservative legal movement must convince voters the Supreme Court is on the brink of liberal control.” Dahlia Lithwick and law professor Steve Vladeck have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“Legal scholars dispute Trump’s claim to power ‘nobody thought the president had'”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has an article that begins, “President Trump has routinely asserted his outsize view of presidential power, but his claim to unprecedented clout in recent weeks springs from an unlikely source: one of his defeats at the Supreme Court.”
“How the Supreme Court upended a century of federal Indian law: Half of Oklahoma is set to become tribal reservations, but what does that mean for crimes committed on those lands?” Graham Lee Brewer and Cary Aspinwall have this report online at High Country News.
“How Native Tribes Started Winning at the Supreme Court: In July, the court ruled that half of Oklahoma is an Indian reservation; The decision was two decades in the making.” Delilah Friedler of Mother Jones has this report.
“Why Josh Hawley’s New Supreme Court Litmus Test Is False Advertising; Sen. Josh Hawley’s pledge to vote only for nominees who have objected to Roe v. Wade would mean a vote against Clarence Thomas, and in favor of David Souter, Anthony Kennedy, and Sandra Day O’Connor”: Carrie Severino has this post at The Federalist.
“Approval of the Supreme Court Is Highest Since 2009”: Justin McCarthy of Gallup has this report. You can access the results of the survey via this link.
And John Kruzel of The Hill has a report headlined “Supreme Court’s approval rating highest in over a decade: Gallup.”
“Federal appeals court reinstates conviction in Jill Behrman murder case”: Elizabeth DePompei of The Indianapolis Star has this report.
And Alex Hardgrave of the Indiana Daily Student reports that “Convicted murderer John Myers to stay in jail, court rules Tuesday.”
You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.
“Grubhub Delivery Drivers Must Arbitrate Overtime Complaints”: Maeve Allsup of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that Circuit Judge Amy C. Barrett issued yesterday on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit announces that it will continue to hear oral arguments remotely through the end of 2020: Chief Judge Diane S. Sykes issued this order Monday.
“Appeals Court Blocks Immigrant Wealth Test in the Northeast; The federal court ruled that the Trump administration’s so-called public charge rule for green card applicants could not go into effect in New York, Connecticut and Vermont”: Zolan Kanno-Youngs has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.
And Priscilla Alvarez of CNN reports that “Appeals court blocks Trump ‘public charge’ immigration rule in 3 states.”
You can access yesterday’s 105-page ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.
“Former jails union boss Norman Seabrook loses appeal in bribery case”: Stephen Rex Brown of The New York Daily News has this report.
And Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports that “Ex-NYC union chief loses bribery appeal; hedge fund exec wins resentencing.”
You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.
“Bin Laden’s Propaganda Chief Gets New Hearing Over Life Sentence”: Bernie Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued yesterday.
“Want Proof that Democrats Are Playing A Losing Game on Judges: Look to the States.” Harsh Voruganti has this interesting post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”
“Anti-Federalists and the Roots of Judicial Oligarchy”: Aaron N. Coleman has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.
“The Least Interesting Branch: Why Supreme Court Leaks Reveal Little.” Law professor Michael C. Dorf has this essay online at Justia’s Verdict.
And at his “Dorf on Law” blog, he has a related post titled “Leaks, Legal Realism, and Private Deliberations.”
“Federal judge pens scathing opinion on qualified immunity: ‘Let us waste no time in righting this wrong.'” Jamie Ehrlich and Ariane de Vogue of CNN have this report.
My earlier coverage of yesterday’s must-read decision can be accessed here.