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Saturday, September 20, 2025

“Justice Amy Coney Barrett speaks at LBJ Auditorium on her experience in Supreme Court”: Diego Hernandez of The Daily Texas has this report.

Posted at 9:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘Admissible’ S7 E2: Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at UVA Law.” The University of Virginia School of Law has posted links to the audio of the podcast here.

Posted at 9:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Alito, in Rome, Says Religious Liberty Is Under Siege; Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., a conservative Catholic, has visited Rome for decades, often teaching or participating in academic conferences”: Motoko Rich and Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 9:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Free Speech Is the Enemy of Free Speech, Apparently; The First Amendment is being hollowed out in the wake of the assassination of right-wing podcaster and organizer, Charlie Kirk; This law professor saw it coming”: You can access today’s new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

Posted at 9:21 PM by Howard Bashman



“Luigi Mangione’s attorneys push to remove death penalty in federal case; His lawyers say officials have acted improperly in the case and unfairly biased jurors”: Mark Berman of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 9:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Prosecutor Handling Probe of Trump Adversaries Resigns; Trump had called for dismissal of U.S. attorney in Virginia, who was under pressure to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James”: Sadie Gurman and C. Ryan Barber of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Jeremy Roebuck, Perry Stein, and Salvador Rizzo of The Washington Post report that “Replacement named for Va. prosecutor ousted over probes of Trump foes; Mary M. ‘Maggie’ Cleary, who most recently had been working in the Justice Department’s criminal division, told staff she was named to the top job in the Eastern District of Virginia.”

Alan Feuer, Glenn Thrush, Maggie Haberman, and Devlin Barrett of The New York Times have a news analysis headlined “With Ouster, Justice Dept. Independence Teeters as Trump Exerts Control; The forcing out of the prosecutor overseeing the cases of two Trump foes magnified questions about the politicization of U.S. attorneys; And it raised one more: Who might be next?

And in commentary, online at The Washington Post, Andrew J. Tessman has an essay titled “I tried mortgage fraud cases; Trump’s revenge prosecutions are a sham; No competent federal prosecutor would bring baseless charges against political targets.”

Posted at 8:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Prosecutors want 30-year sentence for attempted Brett Kavanaugh assassin; Defense attorneys, who revealed Friday that their client is transgender, are proposing eight years”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.

Posted at 8:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge Dismisses Trump’s Lawsuit Against The New York Times; The judge said that the complaint failed to contain a ‘short and plain statement of the claim’; Mr. Trump has 28 days to refile”: Michael M. Grynbaum of The New York Times has this report.

And Louise Radnofsky of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Judge Scraps Trump’s $15 Billion New York Times Defamation Lawsuit; Order sharply criticizes the complaint for failing to comply with legal rules, but gives the president a chance to try again.”

Posted at 8:12 PM by Howard Bashman