“Trump is isolated and angry at aides for failing to defend him as he is impeached again”: Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey, and Ashley Parker of The Washington Post have this report.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021
“Trump is isolated and angry at aides for failing to defend him as he is impeached again”: Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey, and Ashley Parker of The Washington Post have this report. Posted at 9:48 PM by Howard Bashman“Harvard Law School Organizations Petition to Denounce Professor Adrian Vermeule’s ‘Highly Offensive’ Online Rhetoric”: Emmy M. Cho and Isabella B. Cho of The Harvard Crimson have this report. Posted at 9:15 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court Case Tests FTC’s Powers to Recoup Ill-Gotten Gains; Justices voice mixed views suggesting history, though maybe not statute, is on FTC’s side in case involving race-car driver Scott Tucker”: Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal has this report. Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court probes FTC’s approach to seeking ill-gotten gains.” Evan Weinberger of Bloomberg Law reports that “Supreme Court Weighs Whether FTC Law Allows Consumer Redress.” And Brandi Buchman of Courthouse News Service reports that “Payday Fraudster Slams FTC Claw-Back Powers Against the High Court Ropes; Spurning other statutes that explicitly guide how the agency can recoup money, the Federal Trade Commission has leaned on its injunctive-relief powers to return almost $1 billion to consumers over the last three years.” You can access via this link the audio and transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC, No. 19-508. Posted at 8:40 PM by Howard Bashman“Iowa Chief Justice: Court system ‘turned on its head’ but ‘did not succumb’ to pandemic.” William Morris of The Des Moines Register has this report. Posted at 8:30 PM by Howard Bashman“Lindsey Graham had a lock on most ludicrous senator — until Josh Hawley pounced”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 8:27 PM by Howard Bashman“Sen. Josh Hawley responds to critics: ‘Why I objected.'” U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has this essay online at the Southeast Missourian. Posted at 8:25 PM by Howard Bashman“FBI, Justice Department leaders stay out of sight after riot”: Eric Tucker and Michael Balsamo of The Associated Press have this report. Posted at 8:22 PM by Howard Bashman“The Senate can constitutionally hold an impeachment trial after Trump leaves office”: Law professor Laurence H. Tribe has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 8:16 PM by Howard Bashman“Texas solicitor general latest exit in embattled AG’s office”: Jake Bleiberg and Paul J. Weber of The Associated Press have this report. And Hayden Sparks of The Texan reports that “Texas Solicitor General Resigns and Former Scalia Clerk Appointed to Replace, Says Paxton; Judd Stone will succeed Kyle Hawkins, who recently argued against Obamacare at the U.S. Supreme Court.” Posted at 8:12 PM by Howard Bashman“Gov. Newsom should appoint Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu as attorney general”: Janet Napolitano has this essay online at The San Francisco Chronicle. Posted at 7:58 PM by Howard Bashman“A Federalist Society Star Helped Foment the Capitol Riot; The Federalist Society has no comment”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. Posted at 7:56 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court Justice Bolick contracted COVID-19 last month”: Jeremy Duda of AZ Mirror has this report. According to the article, Bolick has since recovered. Posted at 7:55 PM by Howard Bashman“State Sen. Jim Brewster sworn in after 2 months of legal wrangling over results”: Paula Reed Ward of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has this report. Posted at 7:52 PM by Howard Bashman“Angered by Pa. Supreme Court rulings, GOP moves to exert more control over judiciary branch”: Marie Albiges of Spotlight PA has this report online at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Mark Scolforo of The Associated Press reports that “GOP proposal to elect judges by zone advances by single vote.” And Miles Bryan of WHYY reports that “House GOP advances plan to elect Pa. judges by region; opponents say it would ‘gerrymander the court.'” In response to today’s developments, Pennsylvania’s Governor Tom Wolf issued a news release titled “Gov. Wolf Releases Statement on Proposed Constitutional Amendments.” Posted at 7:48 PM by Howard Bashman“Key steps in Trump Organization criminal probe stall as investigators await Supreme Court decision”: Kara Scannell of CNN has this report. Posted at 7:44 PM by Howard Bashman“The Supreme Court hands down its first anti-abortion decision of the Amy Coney Barrett era; The Court’s decision may be the beginning of the end of Roe v. Wade”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox. Posted at 7:34 PM by Howard Bashman“Amy Coney Barrett Should Recuse Herself from Big Oil’s Supreme Court Case”: Bill McKibben has this post online at The New Yorker. Posted at 7:32 PM by Howard Bashman“Police shooting case raises free speech issues relevant to argument Trump incited mob to attack Capitol”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday. Posted at 1:44 PM by Howard Bashman“Fourth Circuit Revives Challenge to Mental Health Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors; The Richmond-based federal appeals court found the government was responsible for the mental health treatment of a traumatized 16-year-old Mexican immigrant and others in its care”: Brad Kutner of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued yesterday. Posted at 12:08 PM by Howard Bashman“Self-pardon? It might not go how Trump thinks. The president’s cherished Supreme Court majority has disappointed him before — and it might again.” Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report. Posted at 11:58 AM by Howard Bashman“US carries out its 1st execution of female inmate since 1953”: Michael Tarm and Heather Hollingsworth of The Associated Press have this report. Posted at 11:56 AM by Howard Bashman |
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