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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

“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.

Posted at 9:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 9:41 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 9:38 PM by Howard Bashman



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.

Posted at 7:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Shakespeare docket: Breyer hears argument on tricks, trysts, and defamation.” Ellena Erskine has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

Posted at 7:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“2nd Comparative Constitutional Law Conversation: Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Breyer.” Society For Democratic Rights has posted this video on YouTube.

Posted at 7:25 PM by Howard Bashman