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Monday, August 3, 2020

“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.

Posted at 9:40 AM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 9:36 AM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 9:30 AM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 9:26 AM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 9:24 AM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 9:20 AM by Howard Bashman



Sunday, August 2, 2020

“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.

Posted at 8:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 6:26 PM by Howard Bashman



Saturday, August 1, 2020

“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.

Posted at 5:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 4:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ruling renews fairness debate in Boston Marathon bomber case”: Jim Mustian and Wilson Ring of The Associated Press have this report.

Posted at 4:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.”

Posted at 3:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 2:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 10:40 AM by Howard Bashman