“A Vast Racial Gap in Death Penalty Cases, New Study Finds; Defendants convicted of killing white people, the study found, were far more likely to be executed than the killers of Black people”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.
“Madison Warned About ‘Sanctuary’ States; He foretold their interest in ‘exaggerating their inhabitants’ to ‘swell’ their numbers in Congress”: David B. Rivkin Jr. and law professor John S. Baker Jr. have this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“A Historic Supreme Court Ruling Upends Courts in Oklahoma; Local prosecutors are referring criminal cases to the federal and tribal courts, which are now flooded with new cases”: Jack Healy of The New York Times has this report.
“Democrats warn GOP: Don’t fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 or we’ll retaliate; Senate talk of a potential — but uncertain — opening close to a presidential election has reignited a clash over the future of the court.” Sahil Kapur of NBC News has this report.
“Supreme Court Signals Federal Judiciary Won’t Mediate Fights Over Voting and Virus; High court’s conservative majority sees scant constitutional authority to weigh in on state elections”: Jess Bravin has this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“Socially distanced, layers of plexiglass and with clear face shields, jury trials set to resume in the Lehigh Valley”: Laurie Mason Schroeder has this front page article in today’s edition of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
“Judges May Continue to Participate in the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
And The Wall Street Journal has published an editorial titled “Judicial Political Mischief Averted; A Codes of Conduct committee withdraws its ban on judges joining the Federalist Society.”
You can access the relevant memorandum at this link.
“The Judiciary Behaving Badly: Liberals on the D.C. Circuit won’t let Michael Flynn go free.” The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.
“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: Drip Drip Drip.” Aaron L. Nielson has this post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.
“Ginsburg waited 4 months to say her cancer had returned”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.
“Jill Karofsky narrows conservative majority on Wisconsin Supreme Court as major cases loom”: Patrick Marley has this front page article in today’s edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
And Marley also has a news update headlined “A Wisconsin Supreme Court justice was sworn in after she ran 35 miles. Then she started running another 65.”
“Roberts is no GOP villain or liberal savior. He’s a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. The onus lies on Democrats to be as effective as Republicans have been in convincing voters that the control of the Supreme Court is a crucial campaign issue.” This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Boston Globe.
“Why was Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence overturned? Jury selection in a high profile case, not the location of the trial, led to the stunning ruling Friday.” Milton J. Valencia and Tonya Alanez have this front page news analysis in today’s edition of The Boston Globe.
“Ruling renews fairness debate in Boston Marathon bomber case”: Jim Mustian and Wilson Ring of The Associated Press have this report.
“The Highlights of Joan Biskupic’s Four-Part Series; The most important elements of the Supreme Court leaks”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
“Supreme Court Leaks Don’t Lead Anywhere Good; Justices who serve for life shouldn’t gossip about each other to reporters”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg worked through her fifth bout of cancer to help shape a blockbuster Supreme Court term”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.