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Friday, February 11, 2022

“Conservatives target Brown Jackson as worst among Biden’s short list for Supreme Court”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

Posted at 9:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Biden, a Veteran of Supreme Court Fights, Ponders His Own Historic Pick; President Biden spent decades in the Senate and presided over the transformation of Supreme Court fights into hyperpartisan affairs; Now he is pushing to lower the temperature for his own nominee”: Carl Hulse and Katie Rogers of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 8:53 PM by Howard Bashman



“Chief Justice Nahmias to resign from state Supreme Court in July”: Bill Rankin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

Posted at 8:47 PM by Howard Bashman



“Conservatives Are Using the Anti-Choice Playbook to Attack Affirmative Action, Too; A six-justice conservative supermajority allows the Court to tear down decades of precedent that protects vulnerable people without even pretending to replace it”: Lisa Needham has this post at Balls and Strikes.

Posted at 2:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court’s ‘Dead Hand’: The 6–3 majority-conservative Supreme Court is dangerously out of step with a demographically and culturally changing America.” Ronald Brownstein has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 1:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court Is Just Doing What the Supreme Court Does”: Columnist Jamelle Bouie has this essay online at The New York Times.

Posted at 1:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court Seems to Think Discrimination Is When You Try to Remedy Discrimination; The conservative justices are scrapping Americans’ constitutional rights, all while pretending they aren’t”: Adam Serwer has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 1:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“Potential pick Ketanji Brown Jackson would make history as first federal public defender on Supreme Court”: Ann E. Marimow and Aaron C. Davis of The Washington Post have this report.

Posted at 1:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Biden faces conflicting pressures as he closes in on a Supreme Court nominee; The first Black federal judge in Alabama, U.W. Clemon, urged the president not to go with appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in a letter obtained by NBC”: Leigh Ann Caldwell, Kristen Welker, Kelly O’Donnell, and Sahil Kapur of NBC News have this report.

Posted at 1:32 PM by Howard Bashman