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Sunday, January 9, 2022

“Omicron Makes Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Obsolete; There is no evidence so far that vaccines are reducing infections from the fast-spreading variant”: Luc Montagnier and Jed Rubenfeld have this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 6:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“Answering Schumer on the Filibuster: Democrats should have taken our advice not to break the 60-vote rule for judicial nominees in 2013.” This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 6:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Native American Victims of McGirt: ‘There is no protection for me—or anyone like me,’ one woman says.” This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 6:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Sloppy Arguments Over COVID Mandates at SCOTUS: The caliber of questioning by the justices was not up to the usual standards, but the justices seemed to understand the two rules at issue present different questions.” Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 10:38 AM by Howard Bashman



“Judicial Notice (01.08.22): Wax On, Wax Off; A controversial professor mouths off (again), Biglaw behemoths battle in court, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

Posted at 10:35 AM by Howard Bashman



“Vaccine Mandates Have a Bad Day at the Supreme Court: The tenor of the conservative Justices’ questions suggested that the OSHA mandate, which would apply to about eighty million people, has little chance of going into effect in its present form.” Amy Davidson Sorkin has this post online at The New Yorker.

Posted at 10:22 AM by Howard Bashman