“Biden announces more diverse judicial nominees, including George W. Bush-nominated judge”: Morgan Chalfant of The Hill has this report.
Alexandra Jones of Courthouse News Service reports that “Biden Taps Six for Judgeships in Third Nominating Spurt; Just 112 days into his first term, the president is now up to 20 judicial nominations, continuing to put forth judicial candidates from diverse professional and personal backgrounds.”
And Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost has a report headlined “There Are Only 2 Native American Federal Judges. Biden Just Nominated A Third.The president tapped Lauren J. King for a U.S. district court seat. If confirmed, she’d be one of just a handful of Indigenous judges in U.S. history.”
“Minnesota Woman Fights for Right to Film Kids at Parks; An Eighth Circuit panel was skeptical of a local ordinance requiring photographers to get permission to film children in public”: Andy Monserud of Courthouse News Service has this report on an oral argument (access the audio via this link) that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit heard today.
“Appeals court overturns conviction in racial slur case”: Denise Lavoie of The Associated Press has this report.
And at Law & Crime, Colin Kalmbacher has a post titled “Federal Court: Saying the N-Word to Two Black People Does Not Qualify as ‘Fighting Words.’”
You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.
“Justice Thomas’ reframing of Article III standing is catching on in circuit courts”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.
“Police arrest man suspected of Hawaii Supreme Court arson”: The Honolulu Star-Advertiser has this report.
“Biden names new federal judges, including a Bush nominee, with an emphasis on diversity”: John Fritze of USA Today has this report.
“Amid pandemic, U.S. Justice Clarence Thomas has a question or two”: Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley of Reuters have this report.
“President Biden Announces Third Slate of Judicial Nominees”: The White House issued this news release today, which includes the announcement of nominees for the First, Second, and Tenth Circuits.
“Pro-tip: When a Judge Asks You to Make a Corpus-Based Argument, Don’t Say Corpus Linguistics is Stupid.” James Heilpern has this post at The Juris Lab.
“Reforming the Court: Five Non-Partisan and Much Needed Proposals.” Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”
“She was a bank robbery hostage — and was shot 9 times. Now she’s suing the police.” Josh Magness of McClatchy DC had this report back in October 2017.
Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued an opinion in the case that begins, “January 21, 2016, was a terrible day for Julie Huff.”
“Circuit Executives Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Office”: William Cracraft of the Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has this report.
“The Supreme Court is facing a showdown over abortion this week; The Court has been surprisingly hesitant to weigh in on abortion; But a pending case is likely to force its hand”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.
“Congressional Democrats’ Court-Picking (Not Packing) Scheme; Their election bill tries to game the judiciary by routing all legal challenges to the District of Columbia”: Alan Gura will have this op-ed in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“A Supreme Court Ruling Protecting Payday Lenders Could Also Save Facebook and Martin Shkreli”: Mekela Panditharatne has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s high-profile year: A conversation with Justice Brian Hagedorn.” Naomi Kowles of Channel3000 of Madison, Wisconsin has this report, which includes video clips from the interview.
“Barrister avoids jail over Supreme Court breach”: Dominic Casciani of BBC News has this report.
“Arson investigation opened after small fire at Hawaii Supreme Court”: The Honolulu Star-Advertiser has this report.
“Biden Administration Reverses Trump-Era Rollback of Gay, Transgender Protections in Health Care; HHS uses authority under Title IX of Civil Rights Act, cites Supreme Court ruling last year prohibiting discrimination against LGBT workers”: Tarini Parti of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
“Trial Begins for Lawyer Who Sued Chevron Over Ecuador Pollution; Steven Donziger faces criminal contempt charges for allegedly refusing to obey a federal judge who found he acted corruptly in Ecuador”: Sara Randazzo of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
“Veteran judge nominated to be chief justice of Maine’s high court; Valerie Stanfill has most recently served as a Superior Court justice for Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties”: The Portland Press Herald has this report.
Leela Stockley of The Bangor Daily News reports that “Janet Mills nominates next Maine supreme court chief justice.”
And Robbie Feinberg of Maine Public Radio reports that “Janet Mills Nominates Superior Court Judge Valerie Stanfill For Chief Justice Opening.”
Today, the Office of Governor Janet T. Mills issued a news release titled “Governor Mills Nominates Justice Valerie Stanfill as Chief Justice of Maine Supreme Judicial Court.”
“Will He Stay or Will He Go?: Calls Mount for Breyer to Retire.” This month’s installment of my “Upon Further Review” column will appear in tomorrow’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.
“We compared the Supreme Court with other democracies’ high courts. More justices would improve its work. More justices could produce more opinions — and improve consistency in U.S. law.” Professors Clifford J. Carrubba, Matthew J. Gabel, Jay N. Krehbiel, Sivaram Cheruvu, and James F. Spriggs II have this entry at the “Monkey Cage” blog of The Washington Post.
“Let’s Get Partisan: The Importance of Appointing Party in the Justices’ Votes and More.” Adam Feldman has this post at The Juris Lab.
“Men Repeat at Lectern — Firms, U.S. Drive Supreme Court Gender Gap”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “Five men argued in 13% of U.S. Supreme Court cases this term, underscoring a persistently wide gender gap at the lectern that’s driven in many instances by the U.S. government and star systems at Big Law firms.”
“New Alaska Supreme Court chief justice worked the trans-Alaska pipeline before starting a long legal career”: The Anchorage Daily News has this report.
And Andrew Kitchenman of Alaska Public Media reports that “Winfree selected to be first Alaska-born chief justice of state Supreme Court.”
“Cruz Reynoso, California’s first Latino state Supreme Court justice, dies at 90”: Maria L. La Ganga of The Los Angeles Times has written this obituary.
And Marcos Bretón of The Sacramento Bee has written an obituary headlined “Cruz Reynoso, first Latino justice on California Supreme Court, dies at 90.”
“Trump 2020 Election Lawsuits Lead to Requests to Discipline Lawyers; Courts, licensing bodies consider whether attorneys abused the legal system in challenging vote results”: Brent Kendall and Alexa Corse will have this article in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“Justice Breyer should learn from Justice Ginsburg’s mistake — and retire now; Making way for a successor would protect his Supreme Court legacy”: Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“GOP’s Voting Curbs Show Long Reach of 2013 Supreme Court Ruling”: Greg Stohr and Margaret Newkirk of Bloomberg News have this report.
“Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad”: Jeff Mordock has this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Times.
“Washington Has No Authority to Dictate State Taxes; Ohio and 20 others are suing to challenge an unconstitutional poison pill in the Covid relief law”: Robert Alt will have this op-ed in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“SCOTUS, Guns, and Police-Civilian Interactions”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”
“Chief Justice lifts restrictions to courthouse entry, maintains precautions during court proceedings”: The Supreme Court of Florida issued this news release yesterday.
“The New, Conservative Supreme Court Is Returning to the Second Amendment; The decision could gut state laws, at a time when more and more Americans favor stricter gun regulation”: Adam Gopnik has this essay online at The New Yorker.
