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Saturday, August 7, 2021

“As Democrats Seethed, White House Struggled to Contain Eviction Fallout; The president was surprised by the reaction to the White House’s decision to ask Congress to extend an eviction ban, leading to a 36-hour scramble to keep people in their homes”: Michael D. Shear, Glenn Thrush, Charlie Savage, and Alan Rappeport will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 10:10 PM by Howard Bashman



Is your BigLaw firm pro-death penalty or anti-death penalty? The law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP has a reputation of supporting liberal causes, and its firm History webpage touts that “[t]he firm and its lawyers participated in efforts . . . to resist the death penalty by defending scores condemned to die and obtaining a historic victory in the U.S. Supreme Court forbidding execution of the mentally disabled.”

Perhaps that’s why some on Twitter have noted with surprise that Paul Weiss’s #SCOTUS superstar advocate (who frequently represents criminal defendants at the Court) is serving as counsel of record for the State of Oklahoma on its just-filed cert. petition seeking to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court‘s recent decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, in a case in which that outcome would result in the re-imposition of a death sentence on the defendant in question (and presumably the re-imposition or retention of numerous other death sentences).

Posted at 9:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judicial Notice (08.07.21): ‘Discernibly Turgid’; A landmark Second Circuit nomination, an S&C partner turned GC, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

Posted at 8:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“US Senate Confirms Longtime Public Defender Eunice Lee to 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals; Lee will be the second Black woman and the first former federal defender to sit on the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals; Ex-prosecutors weighed in on behalf of her nomination to the court”: Jane Wester of New York Law Journal has this report.

This evening, the U.S. Senate confirmed Eunice C. Lee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by a vote of 50-to-47, with three Republican Senators not voting.

Posted at 6:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Meet The October Term 2021 Clerk Class; Which law schools and feeder judges produced the most OT 2021 clerks?” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

Posted at 6:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Antiabortion activists at Supreme Court cite an unlikely authority for overturning Roe v. Wade: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 1:05 PM by Howard Bashman