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Friday, May 27, 2022

“Shut It Down: Radical Leftwing Group Draws Up Battle Plans To Blockade Supreme Court; Leaders encourage protesters to ‘stretch the bounds of constitutionally protected speech.'” Kevin Daley of The Washington Free Beacon has this report.

Posted at 3:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump judges use one-two legal punch to block Biden agenda”: Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times have this report (subscription required for full access).

Posted at 2:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“How a 14-Year-Old Student Made Supreme Court History: After Brown v. Board of Education, Chief Justice Earl Warren insisted on hiring an African-American student to become one of the court’s ‘pages’ or aides.” Tony Mauro has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.”

Posted at 1:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“The last Democrat-appointed Iowa Supreme Court justice retiring; Justice Brent Appel’s replacement will be the 5th out of 7 justices appointed by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds”: Erin Murphy of The Gazette of Cedar Rapids has this report.

Posted at 10:14 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court’s Forced-Arbitration Ruling Is a Win for Workers; Companies routinely compel customers and employees to waive their right to sue, but that may be changing”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

Posted at 10:10 AM by Howard Bashman



“Following Their Hearts All the Way to the Supreme Court; David Schulman and Sarah Weiner spent two years commuting between Boston and Washington, where they were later married by Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the U.S. Supreme Court”: Julia Carmel has this Mini-Vows item online at The New York Times.

Posted at 8:22 AM by Howard Bashman



Thursday, May 26, 2022

“Why Are There So Few Native Federal Judges? The confirmation of Sunshine Sykes highlights how thoroughly excluded Native people have been from the federal judiciary’s ranks.” Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

Posted at 9:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“An appeals court upheld a Pennsylvania law that prevents Philly from making its own gun rules; The city has tried unsuccessfully in the past to enact gun regulations such as a requirement that firearms owners notify authorities if their weapons are lost or stolen”: Sean Collins Walsh of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report on a 3-to-2 ruling that the en banc Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania issued today.

Posted at 9:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“Gun sales to Texas shooter would have been illegal in California — but those laws could be in jeopardy”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

Posted at 8:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Markel Trial Day 9: Defense tries stoking sympathies, Magbanua on the stand, resting its case.” Peter Schorsch of Florida Politics has this report.

Posted at 7:53 PM by Howard Bashman



“Loss of trust, collegiality at Supreme Court after leak of draft opinion”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report (subscription required for full access).

Posted at 7:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court Is Enabling America’s Gun Dystopia; After a long period of inaction on the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court is back to doing what it does best: making our world a more dangerous place.” Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

Posted at 5:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Why the Florida Supreme Court must uphold its abortion precedent, even if Roe is overturned; Florida’s constitution specifically protects the right to privacy, which the state supreme court has interpreted to include the right to an abortion”: Law professor Louis J. Virelli III has this essay online at The Tampa Bay Times.

Posted at 5:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Solicitor general advises Supreme Court not to review C.H. Robinson case; As with AB5 case, solicitor general says appellate court got it right”: John Kingston of FreightWaves has this report.

Posted at 5:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Whitmer to Michigan Supreme Court: ‘Time is of the essence’ on abortion lawsuit.” Dave Boucher of The Detroit Free Press has this report.

Posted at 5:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“Milwaukee County judge announces candidacy for Wisconsin Supreme Court, decries ‘radical right-wing extremists'”: Bruce Vielmetti of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

Posted at 5:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court decisions on abortion, gun control and religion likely to come soon”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Posted at 5:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Institutions Crumble: Destroy customary norms of neutrality and hark how social discord follows.” At the “Law & Liberty” blog, John O. McGinnis has a post that begins, “There is certain poetic injustice in that the first draft opinion ever leaked from the Supreme Court would overrule Roe v. Wade.”

Posted at 10:10 AM by Howard Bashman



“Americans prefer Democrats’ position on abortion to Republicans’ — Reuters/Ipsos poll”: Jason Lange of Reuters has this report.

Posted at 9:54 AM by Howard Bashman



Wednesday, May 25, 2022

“U.S. Senate Judiciary considers RI Public Defender Montecalvo for federal appeals court bench”: Katie Mulvaney of The Providence Journal has this report.

And Edmund H. Mahony of The Hartford Courant reports that “Connecticut judge breezes through committee appearance on way to likely U.S. Appeals court confirmation.”

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has posted online via this link the video of today’s confirmation hearing for judicial nominees.

Posted at 10:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Kindling a New Originalist Fire; Justice Alito’s argument breaks away from the originalist tradition, but it serves the same goal”: James J. Heaney has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

Posted at 10:00 PM by Howard Bashman