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Monday, August 9, 2021

“Founding-Era Common Law’s Relevance to Original Meaning”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

Posted at 10:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“New Split on Fugitive-Disentitlement Appeals; The Second Circuit split with the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits in holding that fugitive-disentitlement orders are immediately appealable via the collateral-order doctrine”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog about a decision that a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued last Thursday.

Posted at 9:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Biden rushes to pick judges, but one major opening remains”: Pamela King of Greenwire has a report that begins, “More than six months into his term, President Biden has outstripped his predecessors on nominating judges, but one key vacancy on a powerful appeals court remains.”

Posted at 8:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Dems’ unrelenting drive against Trump continues to do real harm to presidency, Constitution; Congress’s demands for documents and subpoenas could do lasting damage to the separation of powers”: John Eastman and law professor John Yoo have this essay online at Fox News.

Posted at 8:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“An Ohio judge ordered a man to get a Covid-19 vaccine as a condition of his probation”: Kay Jones and Amanda Watts of CNN have a report that begins, “An Ohio man says he will not get vaccinated despite a judge ordering him to get a Covid-19 vaccine shot as a condition of his probation.”

Posted at 7:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“White House Said to Vet Prelogar as Top Supreme Court Lawyer”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

Posted at 5:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“NYC’s vaccine mandate will test the authority of a 1905 Supreme Court case”: Alexis Keenan of Yahoo Finance has this report.

Posted at 1:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Are Liberals to Blame for Our Crisis of Faith in Government? Progressives as well as conservatives have promoted suspicion of the establishment, but lack of trust is not the same as apathy.” Louis Menand has this “Books” essay in the August 16, 2021 issue of The New Yorker.

Posted at 11:26 AM by Howard Bashman