“Appellate court ruling: Trial court won’t hear conflict claims by Charlie Adelson.” Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has a report that begins, “The 1st District Court of Appeal has rejected a request by Charlie Adelson to allow his case to go back to a lower court — where he was convicted in the 2014 murder of Dan Markel — so he could raise conflict of interest claims in hopes of securing a new trial.”
You can access yesterday’s order of Florida’s First District Court of Appeal at this link.
“John Roberts Is Imagining Things: We can all agree that Supreme Court justices shouldn’t face threats of physical violence; But only in the chief justice’s warped, cloistered world does criticism of the high court constitute intimidation.” Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.
“John Roberts Will Say Anything to Keep His Hold On Power; The chief justice’s annual end-of-year report is not about addressing problems with the judiciary, but is instead about ensuring that it remains unaccountable”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.
And at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site, Jay Willis has a post titled “We Regret to Inform You That John Roberts Is Maybe More Powerful Than Ever; During the second Trump administration, the Supreme Court’s six-justice conservative supermajority will be doing its dirty work with the political winds at its back.”