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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

“Biden Can’t Duck Trump’s Court: A Barrett or Lagoa nomination will give voters a choice about the Court’s role.” Columnist Daniel Henninger will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 10:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘Blessed is God, the true judge’: Ginsburg memorialized in Jewish words in the halls of the Supreme Court.” Julie Zauzmer of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 10:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ginsburg Remembered as Champion of Justice as Struggle Continues Over Her Successor; Long lines of mourners waited outside the Supreme Court to pay their respects, but President Trump again made clear he would not honor her dying wish that filling her seat wait until the next president was chosen”: Peter Baker will have this article in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times.

And also in Thursday’s edition of that newspaper, Hailey Fuchs will have an article headlined “Ginsburg Clerks Remember Her as a Mentor Who Treated Them Like Family; With birthday cakes, baby clothes, meticulous edits and high standards, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg forged a personal bond with her clerks that transcended the legal profession.”

Posted at 10:09 PM by Howard Bashman



“GOP appeals ruling that extended time to count Wisconsin absentee ballots”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

Posted at 9:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Whose Precedent? Which Originalism? Any effort to restore the American legal tradition must recognize that ‘individual liberty’ decisions have revolutionized our constitutional order.” Jesse Merriam has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

Posted at 8:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Resignation in Time, that Saved Nine: To avert Court Packing, would the Chief Justice allow a President Biden to appoint his replacement?” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 8:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Dems could curb a conservative SCOTUS without court-packing”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

Posted at 7:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“History Doesn’t Support Republicans’ Supreme Court Hypocrisy; Their partisan ruthlessness in 2016 and 2020 is unprecedented”: William Saletan has this essay online at Slate.

Posted at 7:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“Is Kamala Harris the Democrats’ secret to stopping Trump’s Supreme Court nominee? As both a sitting California senator and the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Harris could make or break Democrats’ case over Trump’s nominee”: Emily DeRuy of The San Jose Mercury News has this report.

Posted at 6:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“No hiding behind Pence’s skirt on the Supreme Court nomination; The vice president doesn’t have the power to break a tie on the appointment”: Law professor Laurence H. Tribe has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

Posted at 6:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Alaska’s Sen. Murkowski says she can’t rule out voting for Trump’s Supreme Court pick”: Liz Ruskin of Alaska Public Media has a report that begins, “If Democrats were counting on Lisa Murkowski to vote against President Trump’s next nominee to the Supreme Court, they should think again.”

Posted at 6:27 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Revives Talk of Court Packing; The idea, recalling a plan by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is increasingly popular among progressives, but faces roadblocks among members of both parties”: Astead W. Herndon and Maggie Astor of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 6:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Lagoa Is Puzzle Beyond Florida, Limiting SCOTUS Prospects”: Robert Iafolla, Aysha Bagchi, and Jennifer Kay of Bloomberg Law have this report.

Posted at 6:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump’s Actual Record on Judges: A look at the numbers shows that both the President and his critics get it wrong.” Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 2:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“A new conservative Supreme Court justice could boost religious rights at the cost of LGBTQ protections”: Samantha Schmidt and Sarah Pulliam Bailey of The Washington Post have this report.

Posted at 2:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Kavanaugh Emerges as Man-in-the-Middle With Supreme Court Set to Shift Right”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has an article that begins, “U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh remains anathema to many liberals. The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg means he also may soon be their best hope to save abortion rights and Obamacare.”

Posted at 1:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Roberts: Ginsburg was ‘tough, brave, a fighter, a winner.'” Mark Sherman and Matthew Barakat of The Associated Press have this report.

Posted at 1:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Democrats worry Feinstein can’t handle Supreme Court battle; Colleagues fear the oldest senator may struggle to lead Democrats on the Judiciary Committee”: John Bresnahan and Marianne LeVine of Politico have this report.

Posted at 1:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“Why Do Republicans Bother To Lie About Their Judicial Appointments Strategy?” Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

Posted at 12:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Jurisdictional Deadlines & ‘Jurisdictional Crow’; The Fifth Circuit had to ‘eat a bit of jurisdictional crow’ and replace its opinion on the jurisdictionality of the civil-appeal deadline”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog.

Posted at 11:52 AM by Howard Bashman



“Roberts Will Struggle to Hold Center as Court’s Makeup Shifts”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

Posted at 9:50 AM by Howard Bashman