How Appealing



Wednesday, August 5, 2020

“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.

Posted at 10:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.”

Posted at 7:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 2:11 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 2:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

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“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.

Posted at 10:10 AM by Howard Bashman



“Anti-Federalists and the Roots of Judicial Oligarchy”: Aaron N. Coleman has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

Posted at 9:44 AM by Howard Bashman