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Monday, March 13, 2023

“An Idaho College Removes Artwork About Abortion, Citing a State Law; Six works in a Lewis-Clark exhibition about health care were perceived to run afoul of a law that prohibits the use of state funds to ‘promote abortion’ or ‘counsel in favor of abortion'”: Brian Boucher of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 10:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Expanding Battle Over the Abortion Pill: Republican state attorneys general are threatening action against pharmacies that dispense it, as a federal lawsuit challenges the F.D.A.’s authority to approve it.” Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this Comment in the Talk of the Town section of the March 20, 2023 issue of The New Yorker.

Posted at 10:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Federal Judges Made a Political Game Out of Taking Senior Status: A new study shows that lower court judges, and especially conservatives, are using senior status as a loophole to ensure their replacement by a like-minded president; Here’s how Congress can respond.” Xiao Wang has this post at Balls and Strikes.

Posted at 9:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Of Bruen, the Second Amendment, and Constitutional Insanity”: Eric Segall recently had this post at “Dorf on Law.”

Posted at 9:35 PM by Howard Bashman



“South Carolina GOP lawmakers propose death penalty for women who have abortions”: Stephen Neukam of The Hill has this report.

Posted at 5:37 PM by Howard Bashman



“Droney Leaves Day Pitney, Goes Independent With Launch of New Firm; Going independent, Christopher Droney said, will make it easier to avoid conflicts that inevitably arise when employed by one of the state’s largest firms”: Michael Marciano of Connecticut Law Tribune has this report. Avoiding big-firm “positional” conflicts was a major reason I went solo just over 19 years ago.

Posted at 1:53 PM by Howard Bashman



“Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race holds high stakes. Here’s a breakdown of issues the next court could hear, from abortion to voting rules.” Corrinne Hess of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

Posted at 1:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court Conservatives’ Favorite New Weapon for Kneecapping the Administrative State: Why a relatively young legal doctrine has become all the rage among the court’s right-wing majority.” Matt Ford of The New Republic has this report.

Posted at 1:37 PM by Howard Bashman



“UPenn Accuses a Law Professor of Racist Statements. Should She Be Fired? Amy Wax and free speech groups say the university is trampling on her academic freedom. Students ask whether her speech deserves to be protected.” Vimal Patel has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 1:34 PM by Howard Bashman



“How the Supreme Court’s decision in unclaimed property case will affect Delaware”: Brandon Holveck of The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware has this report.

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Q&A: James Rosen; Newsmax Chief White House Correspondent James Rosen, author of Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936-1986, talked about the first of his two-part biography of late Supreme Court associate justice Antonin Scalia.” You can view the video online at C-SPAN via this link.

Posted at 1:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court Just Keeps Deciding It Should Be Even More Powerful; Whatever conservative ethos of restraint there once was has vanished”: Law professor Kimberly Wehle has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 1:21 PM by Howard Bashman



“Just How Hypocritical Are the Supreme Court’s Conservative Justices Willing to Be?” Law professor Stephen I. Vladeck has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

And at his “One First” Substack site, Vladeck has a post titled “18. The Growing Abuse of Single-Judge Divisions: The Supreme Court may soon have an opportunity to weigh in on the growing practice of plaintiffs hand-picking the specific district judge who hears their lawsuit; It should condemn it.”

Posted at 1:16 PM by Howard Bashman