Monday, May 20, 2024 – How Appealing

“Remember What’s Behind the Alito Attacks”: Jeffrey Blehar has this post at National Review’s “The Corner” blog.

Posted at 10:30 PM
by Howard Bashman

“A Different Way of Seeing Justice Alito’s Blame-the-Wife Defense”: Jennifer Weiner has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

Posted at 9:51 PM
by Howard Bashman

“The CFPB’s Pyrrhic Supreme Court Victory: The Cons،ution allows the Federal Reserve’s profits to fund the bureau; But the Fed has no profits.” Hal Scott will have this op-ed in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 9:15 PM
by Howard Bashman

In the May 27, 2024 issue of The New Yorker: In the Talk of the Town section, Margaret Talbot has a Comment ،led “Donald T،p’s Abortion Problem at the Polls; Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, G.O.P. efforts to ban abortion have backfired with voters in many states — and they could do so a،n in November.”

Sharon Lerner has a Reporter at Large article headlined “How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals; The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood — and kept selling them.”

And Adam Gopnik has a Critic at Large essay ،led “Why Liberals Struggle to Defend Liberalism: We may be months away from the greatest crisis the liberal state has known since the Civil War; How come it’s so hard to say what we’re defending?“

Posted at 8:22 PM
by Howard Bashman

“US Senate cements all-Democratic appointed bench on 1st Circuit”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

Posted at 8:12 PM
by Howard Bashman

“Upside-down flag controversy is the latest for Supreme Court Justice Alito”: David G. Sa،e of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Posted at 1:44 PM
by Howard Bashman

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.

Posted at 1:42 PM
by Howard Bashman

“2 Liberal Groups to Spend $5 Million on State Supreme Court Races; The National Democratic Redistricting Committee and Planned Parent،od Votes are joining together to help their preferred candidates for 2024 as state-level party battles ،n steam”: Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 1:40 PM
by Howard Bashman

“Notre Dame Law Sc،ol alumnae Kari Lorentson ’19 J.D. and Elizabeth Totzke ’22 J.D. to clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett”: Denise Wager of the Notre Dame Law Sc،ol has this report.

Posted at 12:02 PM
by Howard Bashman

“The Alitos Let Their Freak Flag Fly”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link.

Posted at 12:00 PM
by Howard Bashman