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Friday, May 1, 2026

“Fifth Circuit Signals Interest in Challenge to Machine-Gun Ban”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “A majority of the Fifth Circuit’s judges indicated an interest in rehearing a case that would raise the constitutionality of a federal machine-gun ban, even as the appeals court voted not to revisit a challenge to the statute.”

You can access yesterday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denying rehearing en banc by a 10-to-7 vote, and the opinions accompanying that order, at this link.

Posted at 1:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“Investigation of Supreme Court justice should be independent, Utah Gov. Cox says — not a ‘witch hunt’; Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said the governor has no constitutional role in investigating allegations against a Supreme Court justice”: Robert Gehrke and Emily Anderson Stern of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

Posted at 1:13 PM by Howard Bashman



“State and federal courts jockey for power in the Roundup case and other mass public harms”: Abbe R. Gluck has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

Posted at 1:11 PM by Howard Bashman