“Appeals Court Sides With Missouri Republicans on Redrawn House Map; The order may have little impact because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that blocked the congressional districts that favor Republicans”: Mitch Smith of The New York Times has this report.
Alexandra Samuels of Bloomberg Law reports that “Eighth Circuit Rules for Missouri’s GOP-Favored Election Map.”
And at his “One First” Substack site, Steve Vladeck has a post titled “252. The Eighth Circuit’s Missouri Redistricting Mishegas: The Eighth Circuit’s attempt to put Missouri’s 2025 congressional map back into effect will fail; It’s also yet another example of the mischief the Supreme Court’s shadow docket behavior can beget.”
You can access today’s decision of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.
“Judicial Notice (09.20.26): Problematic Progressive Prosecutors; Benchslaps for a high-profile district attorney, a Supreme smackdown of the Trump administration, and a Gibson Dunn raid on Paul Weiss’s litigation practice.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
“Tom Goldstein, poker and the Supreme Court: A guide to the Supreme Court lawyer, his high-stakes poker life and Bradley Hope’s series, The Tell.” The Foundry is publishing a series of lengthy posts written by Bradley Hope about this matter, along with this guide.
Chapters 1 and 2 appear under the heading “The Tell: In public, he was the country’s top Supreme Court litigator; In private, he won close to $100 million from opponents at the highest-stakes poker games in the world; His double life cost him everything.”
And Chapters 3 and 4 appear under the heading “The Tell: Chapters 3 and 4; Tom Goldstein wanted a seat in poker’s richest private games; His legal work opened the door; Then he recruited a team of professionals to help him beat the men on the other side of the table.”
“Former Trump, DOJ Lawyer Blasts Conduct of Goldstein Prosecutors”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has this report.
You can access here and here the amicus briefs filed last Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
