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Thursday, May 20, 2021

“Panel Approves First Biden Judicial Picks Over G.O.P. Opposition; Two appeals courts nominees drew scant Republican support; Their approval was part of a post-Trump push by Democrats to rebalance the courts”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this report.

Harper Neidig of The Hill reports that “Senate panel advances Biden’s first group of judicial nominees.”

And Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law reports that “Senate Panel Advances Jackson’s Nomination to D.C. Circuit.”

Posted at 10:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Stephen Breyer and the danger of the deluded institutionalist”: Columnist Paul Waldman has this essay online at The Washington Post.

Posted at 10:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“What Supreme Court’s jettisoning of precedent may mean for future”: Henry Gass of The Christian Science Monitor has this report.

Posted at 9:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Why progressives in Congress should ignore Biden’s Supreme Court commission; Rarely has a bipartisan commission been so fundamentally pointless”: Law professor Ryan Doerfler has this essay online at The Washington Post.

Posted at 9:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“Clarence Thomas awaits his chance to drive the conservative majority on abortion and guns”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

Posted at 9:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge Breyer Mum on Brother’s Retirement: ‘He Loves His Job.'” Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “U.S. Judge Charles Breyer won’t say whether his older brother Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire.”

As the article notes, Judge Breyer took senior status in 2011.

Posted at 8:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Copyright Battle Over TV’s ‘Billions’ Looks to Freud, or Maybe His Mother; Forecasting defeat for a Wall Street whisperer’s copyright suit, a Second Circuit judge asked so what if she sees herself in the character who coaches stock traders on the sleek Showtime series”: Josh Russell of Courthouse News Service has this report on an oral argument (download the mp3 audio via this link) that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard today.

Posted at 7:43 PM by Howard Bashman



“Nebraska Inmates Fight at Eighth Circuit for Prison ‘E-Wedding””: Back in November 2020, Ted Wheeler of Courthouse News Service had a report that begins, “The quest of two Nebraska inmates to get married virtually while incarcerated in separate facilities landed before an Eighth Circuit panel Wednesday, which wondered why the issue was being litigated at all.”

Sadly, that question became even more pertinent in February 2021, when Jessica Wade of The Omaha World-Herald had an article headlined “Woman convicted in 1998 Bellevue slaying dies in prison at 40.”

Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued this three-page decision concluding that because one of the two co-plaintiffs has died, “they can no longer marry, [and] the appeal of the merits judgment is moot.”

Posted at 7:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Analyzing the Alston Oral Arguments through a Citations-Focused Perspective (Part 2)”: Sam Ehrlich has this post at The Juris Lab.

Posted at 4:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“Treaty Signed by Michigan Tribes Did Not Create Reservation, Appeals Court Says; The Sixth Circuit found that a deal between the federal government and several bands of the Odawa Indians in the 19th century did not establish a reservation in Michigan, but rather gave tribe members individual allotments of land”: Kevin Koeninger of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued Tuesday.

Posted at 1:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Case Throws Abortion Into 2022 Election Picture; Supporters and opponents of abortion rights say a major ruling just before the midterm elections could upend political calculations for the two parties”: Carl Hulse and Lisa Lerer of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 8:20 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Free Ride May Soon Be Over for Anti-Abortion Politicians”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

Posted at 8:14 AM by Howard Bashman