“Why Ketanji Brown Jackson Will Be the Last Democratic Justice for a Long Time; The Court is getting more partisan and much harder to change”: Jonathan Chait has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.
“House G.O.P., Banding Together, Kills Bid to Honor Pioneering Black Judge; A right-wing congressman persuaded fellow Republicans to abruptly turn against a routine measure to name a federal courthouse in Florida for a Black State Supreme Court justice”: Annie Karni of The New York Times has this report.
“Maine Senate confirms Rick Lawrence to the state’s highest court; Lawrence will be the first Black justice to sit on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court”: Emily Allen of The Portland Press Herald has this report.
“Amy Wax repeats racist rhetoric on national television amid ongoing University investigation”: Jared Mitovich of The Daily Pennsylvanian has this report.
And Susan Snyder of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that “Penn law professor Amy Wax makes more inflammatory comments on national TV.”
Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton on nationwide injunctions — “The sooner they are confined to discrete settings or eliminated root and branch the better.” In a concurring opinion issued today in Arizona v. Biden.
Sutton also wrote an order on behalf of the unanimous three-judge panel granting a stay of an Ohio federal district court’s nationwide injunction precluding the enforcement of the Secretary of Homeland Security’s memorandum outlining the Department’s immigration enforcement priorities and policies.
“Justice Breyer reflects on career, impact during UVa award ceremony”: Tyler Hammel of The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Virginia has this report.
And Mary Wood of the University of Virginia School of Law has a report headlined “American Experiment Launched by Jefferson Continues, Says Justice Breyer.”
The University of Virginia School of Law has posted online a video titled “A Conversation with Justice Breyer.”
“The Shakespeare docket: Breyer hears argument on tricks, trysts, and defamation.” Ellena Erskine has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”
“2nd Comparative Constitutional Law Conversation: Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Breyer.” Society For Democratic Rights has posted this video on YouTube.
“Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signs near-total abortion ban that will take effect in August”: Carmen Forman of The Oklahoman has this report.
And Barbara Hoberock of The Tulsa World has an article headlined “Gov. Stitt signs near-total abortion ban: ‘We want Oklahoma to be the most pro-life state.’“