“Justice William O. Douglas, an Early Activist of the Environmental Movement; A compelling new book by a Ninth Circuit judge focuses on the conservation advocacy of Douglas and his high public profile, unlike any other”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog” about Ninth Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown‘s new book, “Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas — Public Advocate and Conservation Champion.”
“Major Problems with Major Questions; Invoking the major questions doctrine is the wrong way to enforce nondelegation concerns”: Chad Squitieri has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.
“Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter championed judicial restraint and the liberal establishment”: Online at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, professor Glenn C. Altschuler has this review of law professor Brad Snyder‘s new book, “Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment.”
“Justice DeWine seeks second term on Ohio Supreme Court”: Jim Provance of The Toledo Blade has this report.
“Supreme Court strikes out its own team ahead of 2022 elections”: Jim Jones has this essay online at The Hill.
“OKC company performing Supreme Court-theme opera to cap headline-grabbing summer”: Brandy McDonnell of The Oklahoman has this report.
“Nina Totenberg on her friendship with RBG”: This video segment appeared on today’s broadcast of the CBS News program “Sunday Morning.”
And Friday’s edition of NPR’s “Morning Edition” contained an audio segment titled “NPR’s Nina Totenberg discusses her longterm friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”
Totenberg’s new book, “Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships,” has a release date of September 13, 2022.
“Support for Legalized Abortion Grows Since Dobbs Ruling, WSJ Poll Shows; More than half of voters said the issue made them more likely to cast ballots in the midterm elections; majorities oppose 6-week and 15-week abortion bans”: Catherine Lucey of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
“Standoff over N.J. Supreme Court candidate ends as senator says she will no longer block nomination”: Brent Johnson has this front page article in today’s edition of The Newark Star-Ledger.
And in today’s edition of The Record of Hackensack, New Jersey, Katie Sobko has a front page article headlined “Murphy Supreme Court nomination can move forward as Sen. Schepisi lifts her opposition.”
“New York enacts new gun restrictions in response to supreme court decision; After court overturned 1911 New York law, state lawmakers produced act to create ‘gun-free zones’ and strengthen gun control measures”: Martin Pengelly of The Guardian (UK) has this report.
“Abortion Pill Providers Experiment With Ways to Broaden Access; These new efforts, which test the legal boundaries, have sprung up since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and many states restricted abortion”: Pam Belluck will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.
“Alison J. Nathan | Induction Ceremony”: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has posted this video on YouTube.
“Missoula law professor nominated to 9th Circuit Court”: Rob Chaney of The Missoulian has this report.
Eric Dietrich of Montana Free Press reports that “UM law professor, Montana Constitution expert nominated to 9th Circuit; Anthony Johnstone forwarded for federal appeals judgeship by President Joe Biden.”
And Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law reports that “Montana Law Professor Is Biden’s Pick for Ninth Circuit Seat.”
Today, the White House issued a news release titled “President Biden Names Twenty-Sixth Round of Judicial Nominees.”
Update: In other news coverage, Brendan Pierson and Nate Raymond of Reuters report that “Biden taps Montana law prof for 9th Circuit in latest slate of judges.”
“‘Worse Than Nothing’ Review: What Originalism Is and Isn’t; A movement in Constitutional law has become a rallying cry, and a lightning rod for criticism.” Online at The Wall Street Journal, Adam J. White has this review of law professor Erwin Chemerinsky‘s forthcoming book, “Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism.”
“Supreme Court probe into the abortion draft leaker goes unresolved four months later”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.
“The current Supreme Court could be the most pro-business yet”: This audio segment appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”
“Renatha Francis takes seat on the FL Supreme Court two years after first try; She becomes one of two women and the only Black on the high court”: Michael Moline of Florida Phoenix has this report.
“Schepisi releases nomination of Wainer Apter to N.J. Supreme Court; Murphy will nominate Fasciale; Agreement between governor and Bergen GOP senator maintains partisan balance of state’s top court”: David Wildstein of the New Jersey Globe has this report.
“Supreme Court Public Approval Tumbles After Abortion Ruling”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Rachel Daley ’21 To Clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch; UVA Law Is No. 5 in High Court Clerkships From 2007-21”: Mike Fox of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report.
For those of you wondering whether this will affect Kevin Daley’s ability to cover the U.S. Supreme Court for The Washington Free Beacon, the answer is that he doesn’t work there any more.
“US argues Supreme Court shouldn’t review Dylann Roof case”: Meg Kinnard of The Associated Press has this report on the brief in opposition that the federal government filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. The petition for writ of certiorari, which was filed on February 24, 2022, can be accessed here.
In related commentary, earlier this summer, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby had an essay titled “Alive and well and living on death row; Even when mass killers are sentenced to death, they never pay the ultimate price for their crimes.”
“Protocols For In-Person And Hybrid Oral Arguments Effective September 1, 2022”: Yesterday evening, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued this notice.
“Stephen Glasser, co-founder of the Legal Times newspaper, dies at 79; He and his wife started the Washington-based weekly in 1978; The newspaper was among the first to focus on lawyers and the legal profession, and helped spark a bevy of imitators”: Harrison Smith of The Washington Post has written this obituary.
“Ginni Thomas pressed Wisconsin lawmakers to overturn Biden’s 2020 victory; The conservative activist and wife of the Supreme Court justice emailed lawmakers in two states in the weeks after the election”: Emma Brown of The Washington Post has this report.
“Ex Burger King workers get another bite at ‘no-hire’ conspiracy lawsuit”: Barbara Grzincic of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued yesterday.
“Originalism, Deference, and Judicial Hypocrisy”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”
“‘It’s horrific’: Mother of son struck down in murder-for-hire plot speaks of anguish; After Danny Markel divorced his wife, Wendi Adelson, police say her brother, Charlie, hired people to kill Markel.” Jeremy Grimaldi of The Vaughan Citizen of Newmarket, Ontario, Canada has this report.
“A Brief Guide to Legal Corpus Linguistics, the Unholy Fusion of Big Data and Originalism; For linguists, corpus linguistics is a vital academic research tool; For conservative judges, it is another method of reverse-engineering their preferred result”: James LaRock and Jacob Hammond have this post at Balls and Strikes.
