How Appealing



Thursday, May 8, 2025

“President Biden’s and the Democrats’ Assault on the Supreme Court and the Rule of Law; Democrats tried to alter unconstitutionally the membership of the Supreme Court; they extorted Facebook into censoring free speech; they issued presidential executive orders unsupported by statute; and they pushed unprecedented prosecutions of Biden’s predecessor in office, and his 2024 opponent, in the presidential race”: Steven Calabresi has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 9:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump replaces D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro; The president yielded to Senate Republican criticism of Martin’s support for Jan. 6 riot defendants accused of assaulting police, including one rioter with Nazi sympathies”: Spencer S. Hsu, Patrick Svitek, and Keith L. Alexander of The Washington Post have this report.

Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush of The New York Times report that “Trump Names Jeanine Pirro as Interim U.S. Attorney in Washington; The Fox News personality has known the president for decades and would provide him with a reliable line into a crucial prosecutors office in the Justice Department.”

Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer, Maggie Haberman, and Devlin Barrett of The New York Times report that “Trump Withdraws U.S. Attorney Nominee, Whose Extremism Tested Limits for G.O.P. Senators; The means of Ed Martin’s ascent as the leading prosecutor for the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington was his path out of power.”

And Sadie Gurman of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Trump Picks Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro as Washington, D.C.’s Top Federal Prosecutor; President abandoned his original nominee for the role, Ed Martin, over Republican pushback.”

Posted at 8:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“Venerable New York Firm That Struck a Deal With Trump Is Losing Lawyers; Cadwalader avoided a punitive executive order but the accord has left the firm in turmoil”: Erin Mulvaney of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Posted at 8:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“El Salvador wants America’s prisoners. And its tourists. Bukele’s government sees surf tourism and mass incarceration as growth opportunities.” Natalie B. Compton of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 8:22 PM by Howard Bashman