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Thursday, October 20, 2022

“Jabari Wamble — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his “The Vetting Room” blog.

Posted at 10:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“CFPB Funding Is Ruled Unconstitutional; The Fifth Circuit says Senator Warren’s scheme violates the separation of powers”: This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 9:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Georgia Says A Fetus Is A Person. The Implications Are Terrifying. There’s a uniquely dangerous provision in Georgia’s abortion ban that paves the way for criminalizing pregnant people.” Alanna Vagianos of HuffPost has this report.

Posted at 3:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Activists push for disclosure of clients and income of judges’ spouses; In a letter to Congress, four groups cite POLITICO report on loopholes in current ethics rules”: Hailey Fuchs of Politico has this report.

Posted at 3:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Is Yale Law School Turning Over A New Leaf? Judges James Ho and Lisa Branch are heading to YLS — at the invitation of Dean Heather Gerken!” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

Update: David’s post contains a link to the full text of a letter that Judges Ho and Branch sent to Dean Gerken, along with this link to Judge Ho’s forthcoming Texas Review of Law & Politics essay based on the speech he delivered at the Sixth Annual Kentucky Chapters Conference of the Federalist Society in which he proclaimed his intent to boycott law clerks from YLS.

Posted at 3:36 PM by Howard Bashman



“AI Inventorship Ruling Inches Closer to Supreme Court Appeal”: Kelcee Griffis and Samantha Handler of Bloomberg Law have a report that begins, “The nation’s top patent court declined to reexamine inventor Stephen Thaler’s claims that artificial intelligence systems should be recognized as inventors in their own right, clearing the way for his planned Supreme Court appeal.”

Posted at 1:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“ACLU asks supreme court to overturn Arkansas’ anti-boycott law against Israel; The civil rights group says the law is in conflict with a 40-year-old supreme court ruling that boycotts are protected speech”: Chris McGreal of The Guardian (UK) has this report.

Posted at 1:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Voting rights groups launch digital ads on FL Supreme Court justices up for retention vote; The coalition is concerned about diminishing minority voting strength”: Mitch Perry of Florida Phoenix has this report.

Posted at 1:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Should Supreme Court Justices Have Term Limits? That ‘Would Be Fine,’ Breyer Says at Harvard IOP Forum.” Emily L. Ding, Azusa M. Lippit, and Thomas J. Mete of The Harvard Crimson have this report.

Posted at 1:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“America’s Trumpiest court just declared an entire federal agency unconstitutional; The Fifth Circuit’s opinion in Community Financial v. CFPB is completely incoherent”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

Posted at 1:35 PM by Howard Bashman



“Police: Occupants of van with guns near Capitol wanted to take documents to Supreme Court; Police detained three people and eventually charged one with bringing weapons to the Capitol grounds.” Emily Davies of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 1:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Congress could rein in the rogue Supreme Court”: Columnist Michael Hiltzik has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman