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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

“Will Biden Use His Powers to Crush the Death Penalty?” Andrew Cohen has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York Magazine.

Posted at 4:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: The Complete Clerk Roster For October Term 2020; With Justice Barrett’s first set of clerks, plus the destinations of the late Justice Ginsburg’s clerks.” David Lat has this post at his new “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

Posted at 4:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“Patients, clinic sue Indiana over abortion tissue disposal laws”: Johnny Magdaleno of The Indianapolis Star has this report.

Posted at 1:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“The dissent begins by expressing ‘due respect’ to the majority — and then ends with a well-known literary quote about idiots. Post, at 24, 37 & n.39. It concludes that my opinion in this case is worth ‘nothing.’ Id. at 37.” Ignoring my own advice, perhaps someday someone may wish to take a look at a concurring opinion that Fifth Circuit Judge James C. Ho issued yesterday, appended to his own majority opinion, for a case study on the do’s and don’ts of appellate court collegiality.

Posted at 11:08 AM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals judges affirm lower court’s denial of a new hearing in Loughry case”: Brad McElhinny of West Virginia’s MetroNews has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court has upheld lower court actions in the case of former state Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link. #AppellateTwitter participant Elbert Lin argued the case for the appellant.

And in related news coverage, Lacie Pierson of The Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette-Mail reported last week that “Former justice Loughry released from federal prison.”

Posted at 10:54 AM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Will Face Different Twitter Rules When He Leaves Office; As a public official, Trump tweets with less risk of having his posts taken down or his account suspended; That will change on Jan. 20”: Emily Glazer of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Posted at 10:20 AM by Howard Bashman