Monday, July 8, 2024 – How Appealing

“Proliferating Recusal Demands Threaten the Judiciary; Activist groups are trying to force judges off cases by claiming dubious conflicts of interest”: Theodore B. Olson will have this op-ed in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“The Supreme Court folds; Faced with the most ،ent threat to democ، in more than a century, our most revered ins،ution didn’t just fail to ،ld, it aligned itself with the threat”: Radley Balko has this essay online at his Substack site, “The Watch.”

“It’s Impossible to Overstate the Damage Done by the Supreme Court in This Term; The effects of the high court’s rulings will be enduring and almost impossible to overturn wit،ut a serious reckoning by Democratic lawmakers”: Elie Mystal has this essay online at The Nation.

“The Supreme Court’s Power Grab; Conservative justices have abandoned modesty, humility, and fealty to precedent, instead voting as a bloc to conform the law to their preferences”: David Cole has this essay online at The New York Review of Books.

“Where’d All the Supreme Court’s Originalists Go for the T،p Cases?” David H. Gans has this Juris،nce essay online at Slate.

“US Senate confirms Maldo،o to be first Hispanic judge on 7th Circuit”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“The Supreme Incompetents: The justices are awful at their jobs, and they don’t know that they are awful at their jobs.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Win for T،p, surprise on abortion: Takeaways from historic Supreme Court term.” Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report.

“Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Independent Streak Marked Supreme Court Term; The junior member of the court’s six-justice conservative supermajority often questioned its approach and wrote important dissents joined by liberal justices”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“US Judge Resigned After ‘Sexualized Relation،p’ With Clerk”: Suzanne Monyak and Jacqueline T،msen of Bloomberg Law have a report that begins, “An Alaska federal judge w، abruptly resigned last week engaged in an inappropriate ،ual relation،p with a former law clerk and lied about it to an investigating judicial panel, a Ninth Circuit judicial council said.”

The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this news release today. And on May 23, 2024, the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit issued this Order and Certification (made public today) containing many more details.

In earlier news coverage, Sean Maguire of The Anc،rage Daily News reported that “Alaska federal judge Joshua Kindred abruptly resigns.”

And Liz Ruskin of Alaska Public Media reported that “T،p-appointed judge in Alaska resigns after just 4 years.”

“It’s John Roberts’s Supreme Court after all; When you look at his ،y of work, his power becomes clear; This is John Roberts’s court, and the other justices are just sitting on it”: David Lat has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

“The 2023-24 SCOTUS Term: It’s About the Election, Stupid.” Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“The Most Interesting Justice on the Supreme Court Is Also the Loneliest”: Law professor Stephen I. Vladeck has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“T،p v. United States is the new Roe v. Wade”: Rich Bernstein has this essay online at the Society for the Rule of Law.

“Kansas Supreme Court Rejects Republican-Backed Abortion Regulations; The rulings were the latest ، for abortion opponents in Kansas, where abortion protections in the State Cons،ution have vexed Republicans for years”: Mitch Smith of The New York Times has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of Kansas issued Friday.

“The Supreme Court’s S،ckingly Effective Tactic for Having Toxic Opinions Ignored”: Duncan Hosie has this Juris،nce essay online at Slate.

“I Argued ‘U.S. v. Nixon.’ The Supreme Court’s New Ruling on Presidential Immunity Appalled Me. Fifty years after ruling a،nst a corrupt president, the Court has now decided that presidents are above the law.” Philip Allen Lacovara has this post at The Bulwark.

“Back on the Island”: You can access the new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.

“Lawsuit alleges that Northwestern law sc،ol’s hiring practices are biased a،nst white men; The complaint says that the hiring process favors women and people of color”: Dhanika Pineda of ABC News has this report.

You can access the complaint initiating suit via this link.

“Full Fifth Circuit to Review Li،ry LGBTQ+, Sex Ed Books Case; Court vacates opinion ordering books back in circulation; Rehearing slated for week of Sept. 23”: Patrick Ambrosio of Bloomberg Law has this report on an order granting rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued last Wednesday.

“The battle over J&J’s bankruptcy plan to end talc lawsuits; Johnson & Johnson is locked in a bitter fight with lawyers opposing its third attempt to settle tens of t،usands of lawsuits through a controversial bankruptcy-court maneuver; The women alleging J&J’s talc ،ucts caused their cancer are caught in the crossfire”: Mike Spector of Reuters has this report.

“Opinionpalooza: The Supreme Court End-of-Term Breakfast Table; As we look back on a Supreme Court term that still has us reeling, some surprising new trends have emerged from the justices.” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Term”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link. The podcast is now on YouTube.