“Supreme Court Case During the Pandemic? Landline Essential, Business Suit Optional; High-court advocates wrestle with how to argue their cases remotely; ‘I practice law better when dressed as a lawyer.'” Matt Grossman will have this front page article in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“Truth, Reconciliation, and Korematsu v. United States: A lesson from history in finding the truth when the Justice Department has been complicit in the cover-up.” You can access this week’s new installment of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick via this link.
“Raffi Melkonian — Texas Appellate Litigator and #AppellateTwitter Dean”: You can access episode #003 of the new “How I Lawyer Podcast with Jonah Perlin” via this link. The podcast’s host is a law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.
As an aside, I admire the ambitiousness of labelling podcast episode numbers with two leading zeros, which suggests that at least another 97 episodes will be forthcoming.
“Early vaccination in prisons, a public health priority, proves politically charged; Colorado Gov. Jared Polis discarded the recommendation of experts and downgraded inmates in his state’s plan”: Isaac Stanley-Becker has this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.
“How the Pandemic Exposed the Failures of Capital Punishment: Will Trump’s execution spree, court shutdowns, and the toll of Covid-19 hasten the demise of the death penalty?” Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith of The Intercept have this report.
“Judiciary Gets No Relief in Latest Pandemic Funding Package”: Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law has an article that begins, “The federal judiciary got none of the $37 million in new emergency relief it requested from Congress to help manage coronavirus-related priorities and received less than what it requested in appropriations to fund operations for the remainder of the current fiscal year.”