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“The Chief Justice Roberts Who Stood Up Last Term Was More Interested in Advancing a Conservative Legal Agenda than Promoting Judicial Statesmanship”: Law professor Rodger Citron has this two-part essay (access part one; part two) online at Justia’s Verdict.
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“The Supreme Court’s Effort to Save Trump Is Already Working; The conservative justices created so many avenues for challenge and confusion that the Court functionally collaborated in Trump’s strategy of delay”: Quinta Jurecic has this essay online at The Atlantic.
“Gun Control Laws See a Circuit Court Boost, Rooted in Rahimi; Some courts rely on Barrett concurrence to uphold gun restrictions; Dissenting judges decry more generalized historic analysis”: Mike Vilensky of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Harvard enrolls fewer Black freshmen after affirmative action ban”: Hilary Burns of The Boston Globe has this report.
“Opioid plaintiffs’ committee urges US appeals court to toss fee bid by shut-out law firms”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.
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“Why Mike Lee Folded: In 2016, he tried to stop Trump from becoming president. By 2020, he was trying to help Trump overturn the election. Now he could become Trump’s attorney general.” Tim Alberta has this article in the October 2024 issue of The Atlantic.