How Appealing Weekly Roundup

The week in appellate news.

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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.

“A Mississippi case leads US appeals court to strike down lifetime gun ban for drug users”: Margaret Baker of The Biloxi Sun Herald has this report.

Lindsay Whitehurst of The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court rules against longstanding drug user gun ban cited in Hunter Biden case.”

“Conservative Case Emerges to Disqualify Trump for Role on Jan. 6; Two law professors active in the Federalist Society wrote that the original meaning of the 14th Amendment makes Donald Trump ineligible to hold government office”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “Sidebar” column online at The New York Times about a forthcoming law review article written by law professors William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen.

“Judges Attack Judicial Independence: Members of the Federal Circuit sideline a venerable colleague, Pauline Newman, on false charges and without due process.” Greg Dolin and Philip Hamburger will have this op-ed in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Trump wants his election case moved out of D.C., pronto. That won’t be easy.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this report.

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“Why does Justice Alito keep making things worse for the Supreme Court?” Columnist Jackie Calmes has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

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