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Saturday, January 23, 2021

“Pennsylvania Lawmaker Played Key Role in Trump’s Plot to Oust Acting Attorney General; The congressman’s involvement underlined how far the former president was willing to go to overturn the election, and Democratic lawmakers are beginning to call for investigations into those efforts”: Katie Benner and Catie Edmondson will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 10:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Pressed Justice Department to Go Directly to Supreme Court to Overturn Election Results; The former president dropped the efforts to replace the acting attorney general after top DOJ officials agreed to resign en masse in protest if he succeeded, people familiar said”: Jess Bravin and Sadie Gurman of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Posted at 8:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Virginia moves toward banning capital punishment, in a shift for prolific death penalty state”: Laura Vozzella and Gregory S. Schneider of The Washington Post have this report.

Posted at 7:51 PM by Howard Bashman



“Biden DOJ nixes last-minute Trump administration memo on LGBTQ rights; A Supreme Court ruling last June concluded that a half-century-old prohibition on sex discrimination in employment applies equally to discrimination against gay and lesbian workers as well as those who are transgender”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.

Posted at 3:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judicial Notice: January 23, 2021 — Notable legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Bad conduct, leering ‘jokes’ — immigration judges stay on bench; Chronicle investigation: U.S. Justice Department lacks strong harassment oversight for judges.” Tal Kopan of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

Posted at 1:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Why McConnell Dumped Trump: After the Capitol assault — and after losing his perch as Majority Leader — the senator finally denounced the outgoing President; Was it a moral reckoning or yet another act of political self-interest?” Jane Mayer will have this article in the February 1, 2021 issue of The New Yorker.

Posted at 11:00 AM by Howard Bashman



“Nashville lawyer suspended after posting advice on how to make murder look like self-defense”: Brinley Hineman of The Tennessean has this report.

Yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Tennessee consists of a majority opinion and an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.*

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* The majority opinion describes the separate opinion as dissenting in part, while the separate opinion describes itself as concurring in part. I have thus opted to characterize the separate opinion in a way that encompasses both descriptions.

Posted at 10:52 AM by Howard Bashman