Non Sequiturs: 03.03.19
* Several weeks after its release, Over My Dead Body, Wondery's new podcast exploring the Dan Markel case, continues to top the podcast charts -- and creators Matthew Shaer and Eric Benson have some thoughts on why the case has seized the public imagination. [Inside Edition] * The Keith Tharpe case, far from representing an isolated injustice, reflects and embodies the racist roots of the death penalty in America, according to Stephen Cooper. [CounterPunch] * The fight against racism in the justice system has been going on (and will continue) for many years -- and as Texas lawyer John Browning has discovered, trailblazing African American attorneys were fighting to integrate the bar of the Lone Star State as early as the 1800s. [Texas Lawyer] * I've previously argued against treating blue slips as senatorial vetoes of judicial nominees, based on their consequences for the federal judiciary -- and as Thomas Jipping points out, history supports treating blue slips as a senatorial courtesy, nothing more. [Bench Memos / National Review] * Don't be fooled by the high level of unanimity in the Supreme Court's first few decisions of the Term; greater disagreement lurks in the "shadow docket," as Adam Feldman explains. [Empirical SCOTUS] * The compromise appropriations bill that saved us from another government shutdown could also advance the Trump Administration's "remain in Mexico" policy for asylum seekers from Central America -- which Stewart Baker believes "may offer a better solution to the immigration crisis than the construction of a few miles of new wall." [Lawfare via Volokh Conspiracy / Reason] * Actor James Woods is out of the woods in a defamation lawsuit arising out of an erroneous tweet of his, thanks to this interesting ruling by the Sixth Circuit. [How Appealing] * Jean O'Grady is excited about Panoramic, the latest offering from Thomson Reuters, which transforms "the ambitious idea of merging workflow and billing into an actual product." [Dewey B Strategic]
