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Friday, January 3, 2025

“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.

Posted at 8:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.

Posted at 4:34 PM by Howard Bashman



“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.”

Posted at 4:26 PM by Howard Bashman