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.

“The Gaping Hole in Supreme Court Rules for Tracking Links Between Litigants and Influence Groups: Parties appearing before the Supreme Court can fund the groups that file briefs supporting their arguments — and almost never have to disclose it.” Shawn Musgrave of The Intercept recently had this report.

“John Roberts isn’t happy with previous ruling against Trump — what happens now?” Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.

“A SCOTUS Firehose in Trump v United States”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“First bigotry, now lies: This judge pick deserves better.” The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger has published this editorial.

“The Last Thing This Supreme Court Could Do to Shock Us; There will be no more self-soothing after this”: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

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“The Lawyer Defending Idaho’s Abortion Ban Irritated the One Justice He Needed on His Side”: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“A new Supreme Court case seeks to make it much easier for criminals to buy guns; The fight over ‘ghost guns’ is back before the justices”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

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