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Thursday, November 5, 2020

“An earlier version of this essay misspelled the name of the newest Supreme Court justice. She is Amy Coney Barrett, not Amy Comey Barrett.” The New York Times has appended this correction to today’s installment of Linda Greenhouse’s column.

I have caught myself almost making the same mistake here and am constantly on guard to think about this, not this.

Posted at 9:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“Four Observations from Fulton v. City of Philadelphia: 1) Loving and Obergefell, 2) Breyer wrestles, 3) Barrett questions, and 4) Alito charge.” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 8:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Can Try, but the Courts Won’t Decide the Election; Judges, like most Americans, will surely see that the winner should be chosen by no one other than voters”: Law professor Richard H. Pildes has this essay online at The New York Times.

Posted at 8:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court Is Now 6-3. What Does That Mean? Will we see a cohesive conservative alliance? Or a disparate group of conservative justices?” Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

Posted at 8:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Look at the Future of Abortion From Colorado: Abortion-rights opponents pushed a 22-week limit because they believed they could win; They were wrong.” Emma Green of The Atlantic has this report.

Posted at 6:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Vote-Counting Became a Job for the States: The Constitution’s framers took pains to keep power over national elections out of presidential hands.” Law professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

Posted at 6:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“Get Ready for Biden’s Cold War With Trump’s Judiciary; Court reform is dead if Republicans hold the Senate”: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 5:47 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Way for the Supreme Court to Protect Religious Minorities; The justices have an opportunity to overturn a precedent that has hurt Americans’ First Amendment rights”: Asma T. Uddin and Howard Slugh have this op-ed in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 5:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“Racial Thunder Out of California: Voters send a message to the Supreme Court on race-based preferences.” The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.

Posted at 4:06 PM by Howard Bashman