“Odds Are Against TikTok at the Supreme Court; It seems unlikely that five Justices will buy TikTok’s First Amendment arguments when neither Judge Douglas Ginsburg nor Judge Neomi Rao nor Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan did so”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
“Calling for the Views of the President-Elect”: Will Baude and Richard Re have this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
“As TikTok Runs Out of Options, This Billionaire Has a Plan to Save It; TikTok hopes Supreme Court will halt ban at final hour; McCourt is pitching his bid to Congress, Trump’s team”: Alexandra S. Levine and Kurt Wagner of Bloomberg News have this report.
“Tom Girardi’s sentencing delayed as judge weighs prison or medical facility”: Matt Hamilton of The Los Angeles Times has this report.
“Court Order: It Is Unethical for Judges to Talk About Justice Sam Alito’s Unethical Behavior. An investigation concluded a federal judge broke ethics rules by criticizing Alito’s coup-adjacency. Alito has faced no such accountability.” Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.
“Booker concedes defeat on Mangi nomination: ‘Shameful for America’; Mangi’s efforts to become first Muslim on circuit court ran into insurmountable headwinds.” Joey Fox of New Jersey Globe has this report.
“Judges Who Refuse to Retire Under Trump Are Not ‘Playing Politics’; Mitch McConnell says that Democratic-appointed judges rescinding their retirements are violating the judicial code of conduct; Curiously, he was not nearly as upset when Republican-appointed judges did the same thing”: JP Collins recently had this essay online at Balls and Strikes.
“Amy Wax Threatens To Sue Penn for Race Discrimination, Breach of Contract; The embattled law professor says she will take legal action if Penn doesn’t lift the sanctions against her”: Aaron Sibarium recently had this article online at The Washington Free Beacon.
“Bonus 113: Tick Tock for TikTok; The justices’ decision to hear expedited argument on the constitutionality of the TikTok statute makes a lot of sense; It’s also a good foil for a broader debate about when / how the Court intervenes.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.
In the December 2024 issue of The Harvard Law Review, Vladeck has an article titled “A Court of First View.”
“Republican Griffin asks NC Supreme Court to intervene in his challenge of 60,000 ballots”: Kyle Ingram of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report.
Adam Edelman of NBC News reports that “Republican in close N.C. Supreme Court race asks court to throw out 60,000 ballots; The lawsuit is the latest chapter in the long-running saga in the battleground state contest, as Democratic Justice Allison Riggs maintains a 734-vote advantage.”
Rusty Jacobs of WUNC has reports headlined “Disputed race for the North Carolina Supreme Court will now go before a federal judge” and “State Supreme Court candidate Griffin wants the justices on that bench to help him win.”
The Carolina Journal has reports headlined “NC elections officials remove Griffin’s complaint from state Supreme Court to federal court” and “Griffin asks NC Supreme Court to stop elections board ‘from counting unlawful ballots.’”
Will Doran of WRAL has a report headlined “Why the NC Supreme Court may not rule on GOP effort to throw out 60,000 ballots; The latest legal challenge in the North Carolina Supreme Court race between incumbent Allison Riggs and challenger Jefferson Griffin is likely to be held in federal court.”
Sydney Haulenbeek of Courthouse News Service reports that “North Carolina Supreme Court race remains in limbo as Republican judge challenges votes; Despite Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin’s attempt to have the state Supreme Court decide on his request to remove 60,000 votes — and potentially change the results of the election — his race remains unfinalized.”
And in commentary, online at Cardinal & Pine, Billy Ball has an essay titled “Jefferson Griffin proves he isn’t fit to be on NC’s Supreme Court.”
“I’m a Seasoned Litigator. Sam Alito’s Recent Questions Have Made Me Cringe.” Sherrilyn Ifill has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.