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Tuesday, September 3, 2024

“Justice Jackson Treads Carefully in Talking About the Supreme Court; In a new memoir, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court was more forthcoming about her upbringing in Miami, Matt Damon and her rise to the court”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 8:47 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Jackson’s ‘Enforceable’ Ethics Code; The Justice gives encouragement to partisans who want to politicize the Supreme Court”: This editorial will appear in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 6:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reflects on ‘groundbreaking’ path to the Supreme Court in new memoir”: John Fritze of CNN has this report.

Posted at 6:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Jackson Had ‘Wrenching’ Time as Big Law Working Mom”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson and Seth Stern of Bloomberg Law have this report.

Posted at 6:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ketanji Brown Jackson opens up about journey to Supreme Court”: Today with Hoda & Jenna has posted this video on YouTube.

Posted at 6:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Most Conservative Branch: In his new book, Reading the Constitution, Stephen Breyer criticizes recent Supreme Court decisions on issues such as abortion and gun rights as the product of rigid and imperfect reasoning rather than of ideology, and he argues for a more pragmatic jurisprudence.” Senior U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.) has this book review (subscription required for full access) in the September 19, 2024 issue of The New York Review of Books.

Posted at 11:44 AM by Howard Bashman



“In Memoriam: Professor Frederick Schauer, a ‘Giant’ in the Legal Academy; Influential Constitutional Theorist and Free Speech Scholar Made Worldwide Impact.” The University of Virginia School of Law has posted online this obituary written by Mary Wood.

Posted at 11:37 AM by Howard Bashman



“In ‘Lovely One,’ Ketanji Brown Jackson Credits the Mentors Who Lifted Her Up; The Supreme Court justice’s memoir is deeply personal and full of hope, and highlights a fairy-tale marriage to her college boyfriend”: Alexandra Jacobs has this book review online at The New York Times.

And online at The Washington Post, Rosa Brooks has a book review titled “Ketanji Brown Jackson gives readers a tour of her meteoric rise; The Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, ‘Lovely One,’ does not have the wry wit or sharpness that characterizes her judicial voice.”

Posted at 10:00 AM by Howard Bashman



“Should SCOTUS have binding ethics rules? Ketanji Brown Jackson doesn’t see why not.” NPR has posted online these highlights of an interview with Juana Summers. More from the interview is scheduled for broadcast on this evening’s edition of “All Things Considered.”

Posted at 9:55 AM by Howard Bashman