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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

“Secret Recording of Sotomayor in Switzerland Captures Liberal Justice Admitting ‘Mistake’ on Failure To Recuse for Multimillion-Dollar Book Deal; The court’s most senior liberal justice also muses on the prospects of a binding code of ethics and term limits”: A.R. Hoffman of The New York Sun has this report.

Yesterday, the organization Fix the Court posted online a news release titled “‘Virtually All of Us Are Committed’ to SCOTUS’s Ethics Code, Justice Sotomayor Tells Audience in Zurich; In a wide-ranging talk, the audio of which Fix the Court just unearthed, SCOTUS’s senior liberal said term limits could bring political balance to the bench — ‘a great value’ — and owned up to missing a recusal.”

You can access the audio recording via this link.

Posted at 8:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court, Justice Department push back on lower courts over emergency docket orders”: Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times have this report.

Posted at 1:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“NJ Prosecutor Fired to Make Way for Alina Habba Files Appeal”: Justin Wise and David Voreacos of Bloomberg Law have this report.

Posted at 1:16 PM by Howard Bashman



“Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common”: Columnist Jamelle Bouie has this essay online at The New York Times.

Posted at 11:53 AM by Howard Bashman