“MOTION by Thomas C. Goldstein to accelerate case processing”: Yesterday, counsel for defendant-appellant filed this motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026
“MOTION by Thomas C. Goldstein to accelerate case processing”: Yesterday, counsel for defendant-appellant filed this motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Posted at 10:06 PM by Howard Bashman“Election watchers brace for Trump’s next move after Supreme Court ruling; The legal whiplash over mail-in ballots has deepened worries about voter confidence and what the administration may do next”: Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico have this report. Posted at 9:54 PM by Howard Bashman“N.H. Supreme Court chief justice resigns, admits misconduct; New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald resigned after admitting ethics violations involving favoritism and a nearly $50,000 payout”: Steven Porter of The Boston Globe has this report. Todd Bookman of New Hampshire Public Radio reports that “NH Chief Justice MacDonald announces resignation; ethics probe loomed.” William Skipworth of New Hampshire Bulletin reports that “MacDonald resigns from NH Supreme Court amid judicial misconduct allegations.” Paula Tracy of InDepthNH reports that “Gordon MacDonald Resigns as Chief Justice of NH Supreme Court Saying He Accepts Responsibility for his Conduct.” You can access online the resignation letter and a related statement. Posted at 9:51 PM by Howard Bashman“Samuel Alito: Disenfranchising Millions of Voters Is No Big Deal If Mister Trump Wants It; For Alito and Thomas, there is no greater injustice than Donald Trump not getting what he wants, when he wants it.” Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes. Posted at 9:30 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump and the court: If he wins, he’s happy; When he loses, he ridicules justices he appointed.” Lindsay Whitehurst of The Associated Press has this report. Posted at 9:28 PM by Howard Bashman“DOJ seeks to revive cases against Comey, James a year after dismissals; Charges in Virginia against the prominent Trump critics were thrown out last year after a court ruled the U.S. attorney overseeing them had been appointed illegally”: Jeremy Roebuck of The Washington Post has this report. Posted at 9:24 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump’s latest Supreme Court tantrum; Like the Democrats, the president cannot get over the independence of his first-term nominees”: The Washington Post has published this editorial. Posted at 9:22 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump’s Frustration With His Own Supreme Court Appointees Boils Over; Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the president’s comments, which came after the justices blocked his bid to impose new restrictions on mail ballots”: Marianne LeVine and James Romoser of The Wall Street Journal have this report. Posted at 8:52 PM by Howard Bashman“A New Book Seeks to Shame the Elites Who Caved to Trump”: Columnist Michelle Goldberg has this essay online at The New York Times. Posted at 5:05 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump Fights Back After Judge Says Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center; President Trump threatened to cancel a $257 million renovation of the performing arts venue if the judge’s ban was not overturned”: Julia Jacobs and Zach Montague of The New York Times have this report. Posted at 4:58 PM by Howard Bashman“How Trump is Using the IRS to Resegregate America”: You can access the new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube. Posted at 4:53 PM by Howard Bashman“Barely Averting a Constitutional Crisis”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast via this link and on YouTube. Posted at 4:49 PM by Howard Bashman“Conversation with the Justice”: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has posted this video on YouTube. That court also posted on YouTube these additional videos from its recent judicial conference: “Supreme Court Review“; “Pressing Issues Facing the Judiciary“; “New York Times v. Sullivan Revisited“; and “The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Posted at 4:42 PM by Howard Bashman“Eleven Ways the Jurisdictional Objections in Suncor Go Wrong”: Ryan Walsh has this guest post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site. Posted at 4:35 PM by Howard Bashman“A federal judge believes DA Larry Krasner may have broken the law, and he referred the case to the U.S. Attorney’s Office; U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond said he believed Krasner and one of his top supervisors, Matthew Stiegler, may have committed perjury, conspiracy, or obstruction of justice”: Chris Palmer of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report. You can access today’s opinion and order of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Posted at 4:30 PM by Howard Bashman“In Fits and Starts, the Supreme Court Stands Up to Trump; The justices take their time and pick their spots, but they have rejected presidential initiatives on tariffs, citizenship, the National Guard — and now the coming election”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news analysis. Posted at 2:42 PM by Howard BashmanIn the September 14, 2026 issue of The New Yorker: Ian Parker has A Reporter at Large article headlined “She Made Me Do It: A prominent dressage trainer shot a belligerent student — and now maintains that he’s the real victim.” And John Lanchester has a Books essay titled “The Wealthiest — and Stealthiest — Class in America: America’s everywhere millionaires built fortunes from hot dogs, car dealerships, medical practices, and convenience stores; Then they learned how to protect them.” Posted at 1:25 PM by Howard Bashman“U.S. Appeals Court likely to uphold ruling that dismissed criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James; A three-judge panel seemed likely to reject the government’s bid to overturn a ruling that declared the lead prosecutor was unlawfully appointed and resulted in the dismissal of both indictments”: Fallon Gallagher of MS Now has this report. And Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law reports that “DOJ Defends Comey, James Indictments at Appellate Argument.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has posted the audio of today’s oral argument on YouTube. Posted at 1:16 PM by Howard Bashman“Let’s Celebrate the Supreme Court Not Outright Rigging the 2026 Election”: Law professor Richard L. Hasen has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate. Posted at 1:08 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump’s Effort to Assert Control Over Elections Continues, Despite Court Loss; President Trump has launched a broad, governmentwide effort to take more control of state-run elections and sow doubt about the outcome”: Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times has this report. Posted at 10:58 AM by Howard Bashman“Trump Slams Supreme Court Over Mail Ballot Ruling; In a blistering attack on the court, President Trump said ‘these are not the people I interviewed’ to serve as justices”: Tyler Pager of The New York Times has this report. You can view the Truth Social post at this link. Posted at 10:56 AM by Howard Bashman“Lawyer’s ‘deplorable’ conduct doesn’t doom big med-mal verdict”: John O’Brien of Legal Newsline has this report. And Riley Brennan of The Legal Intelligencer reports that “Despite ‘Deplorable’ Attorney Conduct, Pa. Appeals Court Upholds $20M Verdict; One of the Superior Court judges wrote that this behavior could have warranted a new trial.” Friday’s decision of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania consists of a majority opinion and a concurring opinion. Posted at 10:52 AM by Howard Bashman“Break the Supreme Court law clerk cartel”: Josh Blackman has this post at “SCOTUSblog.” Posted at 10:44 AM by Howard Bashman“Brett Kavanaugh *Really* Wants You To Like Him; Brett Kavanaugh once seemed destined to be a moderate; His personality and a bruising confirmation battle help explain why he became one of the Court’s most reliable conservatives”: Noah Feldman has this post at his Substack site. Posted at 9:02 AM by Howard Bashman“Church hits wall in quest to undo Washington abortion coverage mandate; Seven years after challenging two Washington laws, the Cedar Park Assembly of God of Kirkland has ended up back where it started”: Monique Merrill of Courthouse News Service has this report. You can access yesterday’s decision of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link. Posted at 9:00 AM by Howard Bashman“250. What We Learned from USPS v. California: In refusing to put the USPS mail-in ballots rule into effect, the majority didn’t say very much; I still think there are (at least) three important lessons in the Monday night ruling.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site. Posted at 8:52 AM by Howard Bashman“The Robert Bork The Atlantic Invented”: Robert Bork Jr. has this post at his “Paradoxically Speaking” Substack site. Posted at 8:50 AM by Howard Bashman |
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