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Friday, November 15, 2024

“Trump Turns to His Personal Lawyers to Stock Top Ranks of Justice Dept.; The president-elect intends to nominate three members of his criminal defense team to senior roles, raising further concerns about politicization of the department”: Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 9:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Matt Gaetz, Once a Justice Department Target, Now Targets Justice Department; As attorney general, former lawmaker would be in charge of agency that probed sex-trafficking allegations; criticizes ‘lawfare’”: Sadie Gurman, Aruna Viswanatha, and Kristina Peterson of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Posted at 9:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“No Matter How Bad You Think an Attorney General Matt Gaetz Would Be, He’ll Be Worse; Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department would destroy the agency, quite possibly forever”: Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 4:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump taps lawyer who argued his immunity case for solicitor general”: Amy Howe has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

Posted at 4:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“A GOP Supreme Court will now decide the fate of transgender Americans; The legal question in United States v. Skrmetti is whether the word ‘all’ means ‘all’; There’s no guarantee that this Court will say that it does”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

Posted at 4:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Under Trump, US government legal stance poised to shift at Supreme Court; Positions could change on transgender, gun, vape cases; Incoming U.S. solicitor general will be pivotal”: John Kruzel and Andrew Chung of Reuters have this report.

Posted at 4:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“US Supreme Court Bucks Recent Trend, Announces Opinion Release; Justices to release first opinion in argued case Nov. 22; Cases from October sitting likely candidates for decision”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

Posted at 4:11 PM by Howard Bashman