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Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.
“Samuel Alito and the Billionaire: Pre-butting his bought-and-paid-for Alaskan fishing adventure story in the Wall Street Journal is . . . a choice.” Slate released this bonus episode of its “Amicus” podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick yesterday.
“Clarence Thomas Went After My Work. His Criticisms Reveal a Disturbing Fact About Originalism. If judges are going to use history as their guide, they should probably try to get the history right.” Law professor Gregory Ablavsky has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“The Fifth Circuit comes for the First Amendment right to protest; A rogue federal court has spent years harassing a prominent civil rights advocate”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox about a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued last Friday.
“What we learned from Iowa Supreme Court’s non-decision on abortion”: Laura Belin has this post at the “Bleeding Heartland” blog.
“96-Year-Old Judge’s Fitness Hearing Will Stay Closed to Public”: Kelcee Griffis of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“The Man Behind the Supreme Court Case Seeking to End Affirmative Action; Justices to decide within days on what Edward Blum calls ‘racial gerrymandering’ in college admissions”: Douglas Belkin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
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