“Amy Coney Barrett Is Following in the Footsteps of John Roberts; The newest Supreme Court justice wants to be seen as a deeply academic thinker, but her shadow docket rulings reveal her long game”: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern appeared on the new installment of Slate’s “The Waves” podcast.
“With Trump appointees, 9th Circuit suffers another year of reversals at Supreme Court”: David G. Savage and Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times have this report.
“Lawsuit Takes Aim at Citizen-Enforced Texas Abortion Law; Abortion providers are challenging a new law that would allow individuals to sue abortion clinics, doctors and anyone helping a woman get an abortion in Texas”: Elizabeth Dias of The New York Times has this report.
Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post reports that “Lawsuit targets Texas abortion law deputizing citizens to enforce six-week ban.”
Chuck Lindell of The Austin American-Statesman reports that “Abortion providers sue to block Texas law that would ban most procedures.”
Jeremy Blackman of The Houston Chronicle reports that “Abortion provider sues to stop new Texas law before it’s implemented.”
Adam Edelman of NBC News reports that “Abortion rights groups sue to block Texas law allowing citizens to sue providers; Unlike other states’ laws, Texas’ ban would be enforced through private citizens’ lawsuits against abortion providers, not by the state government.”
John Kruzel of The Hill reports that “Texas sued over law that lets citizens enforce ‘fetal heartbeat’ abortion ban.”
Heidi Perez-Moreno of The Texas Tribune reports that “Twenty abortion providers sue Texas officials over law that bans abortions as early as six weeks; The law is set to take effect Sept. 1.”
Alanna Vagianos of HuffPost reports that “Lawsuit Filed To Stop Texas Law That Pays Private Citizens To Enforce Abortion Ban; Texas wants to give individuals $10,000 if they successfully sue abortion providers and others who ‘aid and abet’ an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.”
And Cameron Langford of Courthouse News Service reports that “Texas Abortion Providers Preemptively Challenge Fetal Heartbeat Law; The providers say the bill is designed to force them to spend large amounts of time and money defending themselves in lawsuits across Texas, as anti-abortion ‘vigilantes’ can sue them in any of the state’s 254 counties.”
“Gun laws barring sales to people under 21 are unconstitutional, appeals court rules”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.
And Mychael Schnell of The Hill reports that “Appeals court rules 21-year minimum age for handgun purchases is unconstitutional.”
You can access today’s 141-page ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.
“Interview: Nina Totenberg.” Elise Spenner has this post at the “High School SCOTUS” blog.
Spenner has also recently interviewed Adam Feldman and Melissa Murray.
“Jennifer Sung — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”
“Trump unloads on Kavanaugh in new Michael Wolff book”: Mike Allen of Axios has this report.
Jamie Ross of The Daily Beast has a report headlined “‘I Saved His Life’: Trump Says He’s ‘Very Disappointed’ in Kavanaugh’s Failure to Help Him Steal Election.”
And online at Medium, Judi Hershman has a post titled “Ken Starr, Brett Kavanaugh, Jeffrey Epstein and Me.”
“Judge Robin Rosenbaum”: You can access today’s new installment of the “For the Defense with David Oscar Markus” podcast, featuring Eleventh Circuit Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum, via this link.
“Report Card From US Supreme Court: How the Third Circuit Fared in the 2020-2021 Term.” This month’s installment of my “Upon Further Review” column appears in today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.
Today’s essay is part one of a two-part series evaluating how my local federal appellate court performed last Term at the U.S. Supreme Court. My focus in today’s essay is on the good news the Third Circuit received last term from #SCOTUS. Next month’s essay will focus on the bad news.
“A Modest Proposal: Livestream SCOTUS Oral Arguments With 7-Second Tape Delay To Account for Disruptions; If, and when there is an outburst, the Court can put the broadcast on hold until order is restored.” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
“Michael Corcoran ’17 To Clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas”: Mike Fox of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report.