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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

“Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say; Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was made to kneel overnight, denied bathroom access and confined in an overcrowded cell with bright lights and no windows, his lawyers say”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 9:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Wisconsin’s Abortion Settlement; A Badger State Supreme Court ruling sustains the state’s political compromise on the issue”: This editorial will appear in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 9:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“The 2024-25 term brought notable wins for the court’s conservative majority — and the Trump administration”: Amy Howe has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

Also at “SCOTUSblog,” Erwin Chemerinsky has a post titled “By the numbers.”

Posted at 5:07 PM by Howard Bashman



“Nationwide injunctions should have been nullified long ago”: George Liebmann has this essay online at The Baltimore Sun.

Posted at 5:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump urges Supreme Court to let him fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission”: John Fritze of CNN has this report.

You can access the federal government’s filing at this link.

Posted at 2:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“US Tells Court It Can’t Locate Man Wrongly Sent to El Salvador”: Robert Burnson of Bloomberg News has a report that begins, “The Trump administration told a federal appeals court it has been unable to locate a man wrongly deported to El Salvador a week after a three-judge panel ordered that he be returned to the US.”

Posted at 1:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Lawyer Habba Faces Home State Opposition for US Attorney”: Seth Stern and Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law have this report.

According to the article, “While Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim didn’t explicitly say they intend to block the nomination, homestate senators’ approval is needed for US attorney nominees to move forward under Senate custom.”

Posted at 1:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court’s Majority Is Playing the Long Game; The session is being interpreted by many as giving President Trump more power; Chief Justice Roberts has a different strategy”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

Posted at 1:36 PM by Howard Bashman



“Amy Coney Barrett Is the Most Interesting Justice on the Court”: David Lat has this new installment of his “Exclusive Jurisdiction” column online at Bloomberg Law.

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Wisconsin Supreme Court invalidates the state’s strict 1849 abortion law”: Molly Beck of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

Kate Zernike of The New York Times reports that “Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down 1849 Abortion Ban; After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Republican prosecutors in Wisconsin said they intended to enforce the old law.”

And Patrick Marley and Praveena Somasundaram of The Washington Post report that “Wisconsin Supreme Court allows abortion to continue in state; The 4-3 Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling blocks a 19th-century law that for a time effectively banned abortion in nearly all instances.”

You can access today’s 4-to-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin at this link. That court today also issued this order in the case captioned Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin v. Joel Urmanski.

Posted at 1:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Nominates Alina Habba as New Jersey’s Permanent U.S. Attorney; Ms. Habba, the president’s former spokeswoman and personal lawyer, has been serving in an interim capacity; She had no prosecutorial experience when she was appointed”: Santul Nerkar of The New York Times has this report.

And Zach Blackburn of New Jersey Globe reports that “Trump nominates Habba for full U.S. Attorney term; Currently embroiled in several high-profile cases, she’s unlikely to receive Democratic support.”

Posted at 9:50 AM by Howard Bashman