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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.
“Project 2025 Is Taking Its Cues From the Supreme Court’s Worst Decisions; Some of Project 2025’s most unhinged policy positions arise directly out of the Republican justices’ recent handiwork”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.
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“States and Creditors for Purdue Pharma Threaten Sacklers With Gush of Lawsuits; Legal maneuverings followed a Supreme Court ruling last month that denied the Sackler family immunity from liability over its role in the opioid crisis”: Jan Hoffman of The New York Times has this report.
“Supreme Court’s Trump immunity ruling shows risk of Jack Smith’s approach; The conservative high court often disapproves of how the Justice Department charges public corruption; Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 case was no exception”: Devlin Barrett of The Washington Post has this report.
“A conservative Warren court; The Roberts Supreme Court faces the same critiques from its critics as Warren’s”: Law professor Richard M. Re has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“The Supreme Court folds; Faced with the most potent threat to democracy in more than a century, our most revered institution didn’t just fail to hold, it aligned itself with the threat”: Radley Balko has this essay online at his Substack site, “The Watch.”
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“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 without a serious reckoning by Democratic lawmakers”: Elie Mystal has this essay online at The Nation.