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Friday, September 11, 2020

“Trump Accuses Judge of ‘Stacking the Deck’ Against Him in Tax Ruling; The president is appealing an order that allowed his tax returns and other financial records to be released to the Manhattan district attorney”: William K. Rashbaum and Benjamin Weiser will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 11:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“Bostock, Cline, and the SCOTUS’s Repression of Textualism’s Unresolvable Contradictions”: Rick Hills has this post at “PrawfsBlawg.”

Posted at 9:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Wisconsin Supreme Court Has Already Begun to Sabotage Absentee Voting; A Green Party challenge gave the conservative majority a new way to sow chaos”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 9:37 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Maine Turned on Susan Collins; Inside the movement to topple the Republican senator”: Christina Cauterucci has this essay online at Slate.

Posted at 9:27 PM by Howard Bashman



“Challenges to Maine’s COVID-19 restrictions go to federal appeals court; A church in Orrington and a campground in Scarborough argued that the state’s limits on gatherings and out-of-state visitors violated constitutional rights to worship and travel”: Megan Gray of The Portland Press Herald has this report.

Posted at 9:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Nora Dannehy, Connecticut prosecutor who was top aide to John Durham’s Trump-Russia investigation, resigns amid concern about pressure from Attorney General William Barr”: Edmund H. Mahony of The Hartford Courant has this report.

Posted at 5:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Free speech, gun rights on collision course in United States, some legal experts say”: Brad Brooks of Reuters has this report.

Posted at 3:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“Florida felons lose voting rights case in federal appeals court; The 6-4 decision virtually ensures that people with felony convictions who owe court costs will be locked out of the November election”: Lawrence Mower of The Tampa Bay Times has this report.

Steven Lemongello of The Orlando Sentinel reports that “Federal court rules felons cannot vote in Florida if they owe fines or fees.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Federal appeals court blocks Florida’s felons from voting.”

Curt Anderson of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Judges: Florida felons can’t vote until they pay fines, fees.”

Jarrett Renshaw of Reuters reports that “Appeals court finds Florida can require felons to pay fines before right to vote is restored.”

Erik Larson of Bloomberg News reports that “Florida Ex-Felons Must Pay Fines to Vote, Appeals Court Rules.”

And Dan Berman of CNN reports that “Florida can bar ex-felons from voting if they owe court payments, appeals court rules.”

You can access today’s 200-page 6-to-4 en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at this link.

Posted at 3:11 PM by Howard Bashman



“Zoom Clerking Builds Bonds Without Usual Ski Trips, Happy Hours”: Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law has an article that begins, “In normal times, Timothy Tymkvoich, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, treats his clerks like an extended family.”

Posted at 11:44 AM by Howard Bashman



“State Supreme Court orders Gov. DeSantis to appoint a new justice by Monday”: Mary Ellen Klas of The Miami Herald has a report that begins, “A unanimous Florida Supreme Court on Friday rejected a last-minute appeal by Gov. Ron DeSantis and ordered the Republican governor to fill a vacancy on the high court by Monday.”

Gray Rohrer of The Orlando Sentinel reports that “Florida Supreme Court rejects Francis appointment, orders DeSantis to pick new justice by Monday.”

Jane Musgrave of The Palm Beach Post reports that “High court orders DeSantis to pick another justice; Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Renatha Francis tripped up by eligibility rules.”

And Brendan Farrington of The Associated Press reports that “Florida Supreme Court orders governor to pick new justice.”

You can access today’s unanimous ruling of the Supreme Court of Florida at this link.

Posted at 11:32 AM by Howard Bashman



“Harm-Avoider Constitutionalism”: Law professor Aaron Tang has posted this article on SSRN. The article’s abstract begins, “How does the Supreme Court actually decide difficult questions of constitutional law?”

Posted at 11:26 AM by Howard Bashman



“Can Modern Originalism Save American Constitutionalism? Original methods originalism embeds the Constitution in the Anglo-American tradition and militates against the abstractions of the French philosophes.” John O. McGinnis has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

Posted at 11:24 AM by Howard Bashman



“Trump’s Supreme Court Wishlist Won’t Work This Time; The president released 20 new names of potential nominees; No one batted an eye”: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 11:22 AM by Howard Bashman