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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

“How Trump Officials Debated Handling of the Abrego Garcia Case: ‘Keep Him Where He Is’; A Maryland man’s deportation to El Salvador set off a fierce debate among officials in three cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake.” Hamed Aleaziz and Alan Feuer of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 10:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump 2.0 and the Supreme Court Reform Debate; Does the left’s turn to the courts in response to the Second Trump Administration’s excesses show advocates of structural reform of the Supreme Court were wrong?” Dan Epps has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.

Posted at 9:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“SCOTUS Is About to Suffer Buyers Remorse, Again: They decided to tackle the very messy question of nationwide injunctions instead of answering the easy, obviously unconstitutional issue.” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

Posted at 9:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“Reasonable Minds in AARP v. Trump; In defense of Wes Hendrix — and the U.S. Supreme Court”: William Baude has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.

Posted at 9:18 PM by Howard Bashman



The Pa. Supreme Court today granted review to decide “Whether the Commonwealth’s waiver of sovereign immunity under the real estate exception allows recovery against PennDOT where the defective, rotted, and diseased portion of a tree that failed, fatally injuring a motorist traveling below, was located directly above PennDOT’s roadway and within PennDOT’s right-of-way”: You can access the order granting review at this link.

And you can access the Petition for Allowance of Appeal that I filed in this case, on behalf of the plaintiff, at this link.

Posted at 9:04 PM by Howard Bashman