“Judge Denies Supreme Court Justice’s Motion To Dismiss Indictments Against Her”: Nancy West of InDepthNH has this report.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
“Judge Denies Supreme Court Justice’s Motion To Dismiss Indictments Against Her”: Nancy West of InDepthNH has this report. Posted at 9:58 PM by Howard Bashman“White House says Supreme Court should ‘rein in’ activist judges after Trump’s call to impeach jurist”: Kerry Picket of The Washington Times has this report. Posted at 9:56 PM by Howard Bashman“Wisconsin’s big dollar Supreme Court elections could come here; Minnesota’s election system keeps the money out — for now”: Rochelle Olson of The Minnesota Star Tribune has this report. Posted at 9:53 PM by Howard Bashman“The Justice, the Professor and the Friendship That Could Rattle a Pivotal Religious Charter School Case; Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s recusal from an upcoming Oklahoma charter case could tilt the scales in a cause her close friend spent a career defending”: Linda Jacobson of The 74 has this report. Posted at 9:51 PM by Howard Bashman“Supreme Court seems in no hurry to rule on Trump plea to rein in judges over birthright citizenship”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report. Posted at 9:45 PM by Howard Bashman“Law Firm in Trump’s Crosshairs Fired by White-Collar Client; Paul Weiss was fired by a defendant in a foreign bribery case after Trump censured the firm”: Richard Vanderford of The Wall Street Journal has this report. And Justin Henry and Tatyana Monnay of Bloomberg Law report that “Trump’s Big Law Fury Shows Additional Firms Are Target Risks; Trump orders revoking credentials from firms with ties to enemies; President’s definition of ‘weaponization’ implicates several firms.” Posted at 9:32 PM by Howard Bashman“Musk Donates to G.O.P. Members of Congress Who Support Impeaching Judges; Amid a controversy over whether President Trump will abide by court rulings, Elon Musk gave the maximum to the campaigns of Republicans who back ousting judges who impede the administration”: Maggie Haberman, Theodore Schleifer, and Annie Karni of The New York Times have this report. Posted at 9:27 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump Turns Fight Over Deportation Flights Into a Constitutional Showdown; Courtroom clash has become a broader test of the president’s sweeping assertions of executive power”: Jan Wolfe of The Wall Street Journal has this report. And Alan Feuer of The New York Times reports that “Judge Grants the Government Another Day to Share Details on Deportation Flights; Judge James Boasberg has asked the government to tell him what time two planes took off from U.S. soil and from where, what time they left U.S. airspace and what time they landed in El Salvador.” Posted at 9:24 PM by Howard Bashman“Judges Fear for Their Safety Amid a Wave of Threats; Federal judges are worried that online threats against those who oversee high-profile cases challenging Trump administration policies may lead to real-world violence”: Mattathias Schwartz and Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times have this report. Posted at 9:16 PM by Howard Bashman“John Roberts’s Response to Trump Is a Damning Indictment of John Roberts: Wherever could Donald Trump have gotten the idea that the federal judiciary is not a meaningful check on his power?” Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes. Posted at 9:12 PM by Howard Bashman“Can the Supreme Court defuse Trump’s judicial brawl? The chief justice decried calls for judicial impeachment, but the court’s decisions are what matter.” Columnist Jason Willick has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 9:07 PM by Howard Bashman“Dead Horses and the Strong Hand”: Samuel Bray has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site. Posted at 8:53 PM by Howard Bashman“Kansas Voters Will Decide Whether to Hold Open Elections for State Supreme Court; A question on the ballot next year will ask voters to amend the Constitution to set open elections; Republicans said it would empower Kansans, while Democrats argued it would politicize the judiciary”: Mitch Smith of The New York Times has this report. And Sherman Smith of Kansas Reflector reports that “Kansas House endorses plan to elect Supreme Court justices, placing question on August 2026 ballot.” Posted at 8:44 PM by Howard Bashman“The Small, Simple Question That Changed Supreme Court History”: Linda Greenhouse has this guest essay online at The New York Times. Posted at 8:37 PM by Howard Bashman“Blitzer asks former Justice Stephen Breyer about John Roberts’ rebuke of Trump”: CNN has posted this video on YouTube. Posted at 4:20 PM by Howard Bashman“Ethics Complaint Against US Judge Who Decried Threats Tossed; Third Circuit judicial council dismissed complaints against Reggie Walton; Walton warned against threats to judges on CNN”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access). You can access the decision of the Judicial Council of the Third Circuit at this link. Posted at 4:16 PM by Howard Bashman“Partisan Ideology and the Judiciary; It seems that ‘liberal’ judges are no more likely to rule against the Trump Administration than ‘conservative’ judges”: David Post has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” Posted at 3:22 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump Call for Impeaching Judges Fuels Showdown With Courts”: Erik Larson, Greg Stohr, and Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News have this report. And in commentary, online at Bloomberg Opinion, law professor Stephen L. Carter has an essay titled “Roberts Was Right to Chastise Trump; The chief justice’s rare public rebuke was needed after the president’s outrageous call for the impeachment of judges.” Posted at 3:18 PM by Howard Bashman“Tom Goldstein Claims Prosecutors Have Repeatedly Misled Court; Goldstein claims lack of candor is part of a broader pattern; Claims prosecutors lied to get statute of limitations extended”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has this report. You can access the court filing at this link. Posted at 2:57 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional”: Columnist Jamelle Bouie has this essay online at The New York Times. Posted at 1:40 PM by Howard Bashman“Retired Justice Stephen Breyer defends federal judges under attack from White House in CNN interview”: John Fritze of CNN has this report. Posted at 1:27 PM by Howard Bashman“The Real A.C.B.: Data and analysis bring clarity to the question of whether Barrett is the weak link on a conservatively dominated Court.” Adam Feldman has this post at his “Legalytics” Substack site. Posted at 12:10 PM by Howard Bashman“Defiance and Threats in Deportation Case Renew Fear of Constitutional Crisis; Legal scholars say that the nation has reached a tipping point and that the right question is not whether there is a crisis, but rather how much damage it will cause”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news analysis. Posted at 11:45 AM by Howard Bashman“Justice Stephen Breyer Calls Chief’s Rebuke of Trump Appropriate; Trump calls on district court judge to be impeached; Chief justice responds in rare public statement”: Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law has this report. Posted at 11:44 AM by Howard Bashman“DOJ seeks to delay releasing deportation flight information, saying judge is ‘continuing to beat a dead horse’”: Devan Cole of CNN has this report. You can access the federal government’s court filing at this link. Posted at 11:42 AM by Howard Bashman“John Roberts has enabled Trump. Now he hopes to restrain him.” Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis. And CNN has posted on YouTube this related video segment featuring Biskupic. Posted at 11:35 AM by Howard Bashman |
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