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.
“Aftershocks from ‘The Shadow Papers’; Publication of a trove of confidential Supreme Court memos ignited debates in the legal academy”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “The Docket” newsletter online at The New York Times.
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“Paul Clement Will Argue for Trump-Targeted Law Firms Next Month”: Justin Henry of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Originalist Judges Are Spitting On the Constitution and Think You Won’t Notice; A law in Texas requires every public school to display the Ten Commandments in every single classroom; No problem, says the Fifth Circuit”: Jay Willis has this post online at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.
“New Alito book reveals details on Jan. 6 case, flag controversy; New books about Alito are being published after much speculation about when the conservative justice might retire”: Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report.
“Chapman on Indoctrinating Thy Neighbor; Assessing Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District”: Nathan Chapman has this guest post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.
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“11th Circuit shoots down challenge to machine gun ban; The federal government maintained the Second Amendment does not cover machine guns or the machine gun conversion device that led to a two-year prison sentence for a Fort Lauderdale man”: Alex Pickett of Courthouse News Service has this report.