“Conservative Fifth Circuit Is an Outlier for Supreme Court; Fifth Circuit is more than 20% of high court workload; E-cigarette dispute highlights prevalence of judge shopping”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Hello, Ginni Thomas: Will Clarence Thomas stay on the bench long enough to keep his wife relevant?” Mark Joseph Stern has this essay online at Slate.
“Trump signs executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship; The president issued several actions related to the border or immigration, including ramping up deportations and suspending refugee resettlement”: Nick Miroff, Maria Sacchetti, Arelis R. Hernández, and Dan Lamothe of The Washington Post have this report.
“‘Split-second decision’: Supreme Court returns to the question of police killings; The court will hear arguments this week over the ‘moment of the threat doctrine,’ which addresses how much time can be taken into consideration when police kill people”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.
“Jefferson Griffin’s Gambit For a State Supreme Court Seat; Months before Election Day, a state board and a Republican-appointed rules commission said overseas voters didn’t need to provide a photo ID; Now the GOP candidate wants some of their ballots — all from heavily Democratic counties — tossed”: Jeffrey Billman and Michael Hewlett of The Assembly have this report.
And Doug Bock Clark of ProPublica reports that “North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate Wants Military Absentee Votes Tossed. Years Earlier, That’s How He Voted. Republican Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn his election loss by asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss 5,500 military and overseas absentee ballots. He used the same method to vote in 2019 and 2020.”
“Two Prominent Judges Are Shot Dead Outside Iran’s Supreme Court; The gunman took his own life after killing two judges and wounding a third in what officials described as a terrorist attack”: Lynsey Chutel of The New York Times has this report.
And Alex Boyd of BBC News reports that “Two Iranian supreme court judges shot dead.”
“Trump Signs Executive Order in Attempt to Stall TikTok Ban; Shortly after taking office Monday, the president issued the order to delay the app’s ban for 75 days; The law went into effect on Sunday”: David McCabe of The New York Times has this report.
“Reference Check”: You can access the new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.
“Where will Trump be sued? Previewing the litigation in store for the coming years.” fedjudges has this post at their new Substack site, “The Federal Reporter.”
“US Supreme Court dealt Biden historic series of defeats”: John Kruzel of Reuters has this report.
“Judicial Notice (01.20.25): Ch-Ch-Changes; Transitions between government and private practice, Biglaw bonus shenanigans, SCOTUS on TikTok, and a religious-liberty case worth watching.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
“The fate of undated ballots is back before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court; A long contested issue, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will take on undated ballots this year”: Katie Bernard of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.
On Friday, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued this order granting review accompanied by a concurring and dissenting statement in which two Justices joined.
“Chief Justice John Roberts — and his court — helped Trump get here; Two pivotal rulings last year dramatically affected the trajectory of the campaign”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.
“SCOTUS’s Porn Problem”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.
“The New Constitutional (dis)Order: The law as we have known it is fundamentally shifting. Just look at the TikTok ban, or the presumptive attorney general.” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.
“‘Ultrahigh-stakes’: Supreme Court attorney now repped by Trump lawyers failed to report millions in poker winnings and used law firm’s assets to ‘satisfy’ gambling debts, DOJ says.” Chris Perez has this post at the “Law & Crime” blog.