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Sunday, November 9, 2025

“Lawmakers Seek Investigation of Judges Who Criticized Supreme Court; The Republican leaders of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees told Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. that anonymous judges who responded to a Times questionnaire may have violated ethics rules”: Karoun Demirjian of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 9:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“DOJ Urges NY Appeals Court to Toss Trump Criminal Conviction”: Patricia Hurtado and David Voreacos of Bloomberg News has this report.

Posted at 8:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Federal Judge, Warning of ‘Existential Threat’ to Democracy, Resigns; Judge Mark L. Wolf, writing in The Atlantic, said he was stepping down to speak out against the ‘assault on the rule of law’ by President Trump, whom he accused of ‘targeting his adversaries’”: Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 8:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Rastafarian and Religious Liberty at the Supreme Court; Prison guards shaved his dreadlocks in violation of federal law”: This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 8:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judicial Notice (11.09.25): ‘It’s A War, Man’; The finalists for Yale Law dean, controversial comments by a top DOJ official, a verdict for the sandwich guy, and a Biglaw firm shedding partners.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

Posted at 8:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Hypocrisy: Conservative justices’ shift from restraint comes at the worst possible time.” Reynolds Holding has this post at his “Better Judgment” Substack site.

Posted at 3:15 PM by Howard Bashman



“When Tariffs Crashed Into SCOTUS: SCOTUS has let this president do pretty much anything; Are tariffs really where they draw the line?” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

Posted at 2:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison.” Julie Turkewitz, Tibisay Romero, Sheyla Urdaneta, and Isayen Herrera of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 2:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Loyalists Push ‘Grand Conspiracy’ as New Subpoenas Land; The Justice Department moved an inquiry that appeared initially focused on the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan to South Florida and is beginning to recruit line prosecutors”: Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer, and Charlie Savage of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 2:47 PM by Howard Bashman