“Chief Justice Roberts Reflects on Conflicts, Harassment and Judicial Independence; In his year-end report, the chief justice said that the court administrators, not Congress, should address financial conflicts and workplace misconduct in the judicial system”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.
Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Roberts says federal judiciary has some issues but doesn’t need congressional intervention.”
David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Chief Justice Roberts calls for better enforcement of conflict laws involving judges’ stock ownership.”
Jess Bravin and James V. Grimaldi of The Wall Street Journal report that “Chief Justice John Roberts Pledges to Bolster Judicial Ethics; Year-end report addresses Wall Street Journal findings that federal judges with financial conflicts improperly ruled in hundreds of cases.”
John Fritze of USA Today reports that “Chief Justice Roberts touts independence of federal courts as some lawmakers press for change.”
Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Chief justice: Judges must better avoid financial conflicts.”
Jan Wolfe of Reuters reports that “U.S. Chief Justice says judges need ‘rigorous’ training on stock-trading rules.”
Kimberly Robinson of Bloomberg News reports that “Chief Justice Stresses Independence Amid Calls for Court Changes.”
Pete Williams of NBC News reports that “Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts stresses need for judicial independence; His annual New Year’s Eve report on the federal judiciary came at the end of a year that brought repeated calls for changes in the Supreme Court.”
Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “Roberts pushes for judiciary’s continued independence in year-end report.”
And Shannon Bream and Bill Mears of Fox News report that “Chief justice calls for judicial independence amid growing political criticism of federal courts; Chief Justice John Roberts said, ‘Collectively, our ethics training programs need to be more rigorous.’”
You can access Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.’s 2021 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary at this link.
“Merrick Garland withdrew the death penalty in 12 cases. Does this signal a trend?” Gabrielle Banks of The Houston Chronicle has this report.
“Joe Biden Can’t Save Roe v. Wade Alone. But He Can Do This.” Law professors David S. Cohen, Greer Donley, and Rachel Rebouché have this guest essay online at The New York Times.
“Newsom can have a historic ‘Sotomayor moment’ by appointing a Latina to the state Supreme Court”: Helen Iris Torres has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.
“Biden outpaces Trump in first-year judicial confirmations, leaving his own mark on the courts; Senate confirmed 40 of Biden’s nominees to circuit and district courts, most in one year since Reagan”: Brooke Singman of Fox News has this report.
“Why the Supreme Court Needs (Short) Term Limits”: Law professor Rosalind Dixon has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
“Judicial Nominations 2021 — Year in Review”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”
“Mitch McConnell’s un-conservative plea to the Supreme Court”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post.
You can access the Senate Republican Leader‘s U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief at this link.
“Justice Stephen Breyer resisting retirement depresses Democrats and excites the GOP; Breyer’s new book reads as if it were written in a different era than the one we’re in”: Chris Geidner has this essay online at MSNBC.
“Biden administration defends its authority on vaccine policies to Supreme Court”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.
You can access the federal government’s response at this link.
“Iowa court to see lawsuit alleging ‘gross negligence’ by Tyson during COVID-19 outbreaks”: Nick Coltrain of The Des Moines Register has this report.
And Brian Flood of Bloomberg Law reports that “Tyson Worker Covid Death Suits Rightly Sent to Iowa State Court.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.
“An Amazon Suit Encounters a Snag: a Judge With a Conflict of Interest; Nearly two years into kickback case against ex-employees and a vendor, an Amazon stockholding by the judge’s wife threatens costly delays.” Joe Palazzolo, Coulter Jones, and James V. Grimaldi will have this article in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“Justice LaVecchia won’t extend retirement, leaving Supreme Court on December 31; Senate still hasn’t confirmed Rachel Wainer Apter, who was nominated by governor to replace LaVecchia in March”: David Wildstein of the New Jersey Globe recently had this report.
“The Role of Justices and Judges in a Tumultuous Time: Judges, lawyers, law professors and even journalists weigh in on how the Supreme Court and other courts could help calm the divisions in the nation.” Tony Mauro has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.”
“Trump Riot Appeal Bid, Biden Vaccine Add to Seismic Court Term”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Do We Have the Supreme Court We Deserve?” Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times. At the end of the essay, Greenhouse announces that this will be the final installment of her current column.
“Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to Consider Its Bid to End ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy; Legal setbacks have forced the administration to continue the Trump-era immigration program”: Jess Bravin has this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
You can view the petition for writ of certiorari at this link.
“Pentagon Building New Secret Courtroom at Guantánamo Bay; The concept is to permit two military judges to hold proceedings simultaneously starting in mid-2023”: Carol Rosenberg has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.
“Federal appeals courts restrict public operations amid COVID surge”: Mike Scarcella of Reuters has this report.
“Why So Many Democracies Are Floundering”: Law professor Richard H. Pildes has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
“Interview: William Baude.” Audrey Jung has this post at the “High School SCOTUS” blog.
“Omicron Surge Prompts Seventh Circuit to Go Remote for Arguments”: Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law has this report on an order that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued yesterday.
“Judge rules against Gov. Kevin Stitt over vaccine mandate for National Guard”: Chris Casteel and Nolan Clay of The Oklahoman have this report.
Andrew Jeong of The Washington Post reports that “Federal court denies Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s attempt to stop military vaccine mandate.”
And Sean Murphy of The Associated Press reports that “Judge rejects Oklahoma’s lawsuit over Guard vaccine mandate.”
You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma at this link.
“The Supreme Court has upheld state and local vaccine mandates. That may not save Biden’s.” Tierney Sneed of CNN has this report.
“Biden finishes 2021 with most confirmed judicial picks since Reagan”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.
“Interview: Lee Epstein.” Earlier this month, Hannah Saraf had this post at the “High School SCOTUS” blog.
“Justice appoints first members of new Intermediate Court”: Jeff Jenkins of West Virginia’s MetroNews has this report.
“Conflicts of Supreme Judicial Interest: Montana judges quashed subpoenas to probe their political lobbying.” The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.
“In stunning move, court overturns Michelle Lodzinski’s murder conviction, setting stage for her release”: Ted Sherman of The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger has this report.
And Wayne Parry of The Associated Press reports that “Woman’s conviction in ’91 killing of 5-year-old son tossed.”
You can access today’s 4-to-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of New Jersey at this link.
“Why Is John Roberts So Popular Among Democrats?” Eric Levitz has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.
And Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has an article headlined “Why do Americans approve of Roberts but not his court? The country’s approval of the Supreme Court is declining but they still have faith in the chief.”
“State legislatures in US poised to act on abortion rights”: Wilson Ring of The Associated Press has this report.
“Get Ready for the Most Pivotal Year in the History of the Supreme Court — Again; The country we’ll reside in at the start of 2022 will look very different in 365 days’ time”: Matt Ford has this post online at The New Republic.
“Supreme Court term limits are popular — and appear to be going nowhere”: Seung Min Kim and Robert Barnes of The Washington Post have this report.
“The year Supreme Court conservatives made their mark”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.
“The Return, Abortion, Guns, and Breyer: Supreme Court in 2021”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson and Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law have this report.
