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Sunday, November 29, 2020

“The Constitution and the courts make possible criminal justice reform”: Columnist George F. Will has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

Posted at 9:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“With history-making high court, Baker shows an embrace of lived experience, not ‘activist judges'”: Matt Stout of The Boston Globe has this report.

Posted at 8:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Election Lost in Pennsylvania Court: She was up by four votes, until the state Supreme Court ruled.” This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 8:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Bruce Boynton, Plaintiff in Landmark Civil Rights Case, Dies at 83; He was a Black man who wanted to sit in the white section of a bus terminal restaurant; The case reached the Supreme Court”: This obituary written by Neil Genzlinger appears in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 8:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump questions whether Supreme Court would hear election challenge as options dwindle”: Linda So and Raphael Satter of Reuters have this report.

Posted at 5:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“To this Supreme Court, religious freedom trumps public health — even amid COVID-19 plague; America may be back, as Joe Biden says, but at the Supreme Court, with its extremely conservative new majority, America is increasingly unrecognizable”: Law professors Laurence H. Tribe and Michael C. Dorf have this essay online at USA Today.

Posted at 2:13 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court declines case of Louisiana pastor Tony Spell, who defied coronavirus orders”: Youssef Rddad of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana has this report.

Posted at 2:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals court allows Beshear to halt in-person classes at Kentucky’s religious schools”: Billy Kobin and Lucas Aulbach of The Louisville Courier Journal have this report.

And Jack Brammer and Valarie Honeycutt Spears of The Lexington Herald-Leader report that “Federal appellate court agrees with Beshear’s order to close all Kentucky schools.”

You can access today’s order of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 1:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“President Trump’s war on immigration takes on political overtone at Supreme Court”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court weighs Trump bid to bar illegal immigrants from census totals.”

Devin Dwyer of ABC News reports that “Supreme Court reviews Trump plan to exclude undocumented immigrants in redistricting; Excluding millions of immigrants from census count would have major impact.”

And on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday,” Hansi Lo Wang had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court To Hear Arguments On Census Counts And Electoral Votes.”

Posted at 1:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Pennsylvania Republicans to ask Supreme Court to review case after dismissal: candidate; Candidate calls state Supreme Court dismissal a ‘blatant political act.'” Angelica Stabile of Fox News has a report that begins, “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has tossed out an election lawsuit to delegitimize mail-in ballots, but Republican congressional candidate Sean Parnell said his team will on Sunday ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case, which questions the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s Act 77.”

Posted at 1:33 PM by Howard Bashman