“There’s a Glaring Weakness in Justice Alito’s Case Against Roe v. Wade“: Law professor Kate Shaw and Steven Mazie have this essay online at Time magazine.
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“There’s a Glaring Weakness in Justice Alito’s Case Against Roe v. Wade“: Law professor Kate Shaw and Steven Mazie have this essay online at Time magazine. Posted at 4:44 PM by Howard Bashman“Quebec City mosque shooter must get chance at parole after 25 years, Supreme Court rules; Court found parole ineligibility periods of 50 years or more were ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment”: Antoni Nerestant of CBC News has this report. And Ismail Shakil of Reuters reports that “Top Canada court strikes down stern parole law in 2017 mosque shooter ruling.” You can access today’s unanimous ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada at this link. Posted at 4:25 PM by Howard Bashman“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“Dan Markel murder: Jury begins deliberations after closing arguments end on Day 8.” Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report. And Peter Schorsch of Florida Politics has a report headlined “Markel Trial Day 10 — Closing statements conclude, jury gets case; State offers clear, focused, retelling story of conspiracy.” Posted at 2:35 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“Dan Markel murder: Katherine Magbanua re-trial, Day 8.” The Tallahassee Democrat is live-streaming today’s trial proceedings on YouTube via this link. And in coverage of yesterday’s proceedings, Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has an article headlined “Katherine Magbanua tells jurors evidence against her ‘looks bad,’ but insists she’s innocent” (subscription required for access). Posted at 10:04 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“Reasonable gun regulations don’t violate the Second Amendment”: Law professor Scott Douglas Gerber has this op-ed in today’s edition of The New York Post. Posted at 8:10 AM by Howard BashmanThursday, 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“Can California afford to be a haven for abortion? It can’t afford not to be.” The Los Angeles Times has published this editorial. Posted at 8:36 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“Patent Eligibility Case Is Teed Up for Next Supreme Court Term”: Samantha Handler of Bloomberg Law has this report. Posted at 5:12 PM by Howard Bashman“Federal judge takes rare step of backing U.S. Supreme Court ethics code”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report. Posted at 5:09 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“Rationalizing Misogynist Religious Rules”: Sherry F. Colb has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.” Posted at 10:08 AM by Howard Bashman“Eleventh Circuit Judge Newsom in the news”: Howard Wasserman has this post at “PrawfsBlawg.” Posted at 10:04 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“The next U.S. abortion battle is over pills, and it’s already begun”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report. Posted at 9:48 AM by Howard Bashman“Dan Markel murder: Katherine Magbanua re-trial, Day 7.” The Tallahassee Democrat is live-streaming today’s trial proceedings on YouTube via this link. Yesterday, Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat had a report headlined “Dan Markel murder: State rests its case, wiretaps cross on Day 6 of Magbanua retrial | Recap.” Posted at 9:45 AM by Howard BashmanWednesday, May 25, 2022
“Supreme Court may soon loosen gun laws as nation reels from massacres”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report. Posted at 10:26 PM by Howard Bashman“Gov. Kevin Stitt signs bill banning abortion starting at conception”: Barbara Hoberock of The Tulsa World has this report. And Carmen Forman of The Oklahoman reports that “Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signs nation’s strictest abortion ban. It starts immediately.” Posted at 10:14 PM by Howard Bashman“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 |
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