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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

“Conservative Judges Keep Doing This Thing They Say They Hate; Republican opposition to nationwide injunctions seems to have evaporated upon Joe Biden’s inauguration”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 8:34 PM by Howard Bashman



“Colorado court rules against Jack Phillips, Christian baker refusing to make gender-transition cake”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has an article that begins, “Jack Phillips, a Christian baker in Colorado who has been caught up in lawsuits for nearly a decade, will appeal a court ruling this week that his refusal to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition is in violation of state law.”

You can view yesterday’s ruling of the Denver, Colorado-based state District Court at this link.

Posted at 6:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals court: No birthright citizenship for American Samoa.” Steve Limtiaco of The Pacific Daily News of Guam has this report.

Jennifer Sinco Kelleher of The Associated Press reports that “American Samoa culture plays role in US citizenship ruling.”

And Amanda Pampuro of Courthouse News Service reports that “American Samoans Are Not Born Into US Citizenship; A federal appeal panel says it is Congress, not the courts, that should decide whether to foist U.S. citizenship on people of a territory thousands of miles away who may not want it.”

You can access yesterday’s 98-page ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in which all three judges issued an opinion, at this link.

Posted at 1:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“Getting Back to Original Meaning: Had justices faithfully interpreted the Establishment Clause in light of its original public meaning, Lemon‘s absurdities could have been avoided.” Mark David Hall has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

Posted at 1:09 PM by Howard Bashman



“For immigrants with protected status in Texas, U.S. Supreme Court ruling about green card ineligibility sent a ‘shockwave’; The high court ruled that immigrants granted protection from deportation due to conditions in their homeland are not eligible for green cards if they entered the country illegally”: Colleen DeGuzman of The Texas Tribune has this report.

Posted at 1:05 PM by Howard Bashman



“Bathroom battle begun by trans teen is back at Supreme Court, years after he finished high school”: John Fritze of USA Today has this report.

Posted at 1:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Jack B. Weinstein, U.S. Judge With an Activist Streak, Is Dead at 99; In 53 years on the bench and nearly a decade as the chief judge of the Eastern District of New York, he was known for his bold jurisprudence and his outsize personality”: This obituary written by Laura Mansnerus appears in today’s edition of The New York Times.

And Corinne Ramey of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Jack Weinstein, Iconoclastic Federal Judge for Five Decades, Dies at 99; The Brooklyn jurist was known for pushing the boundaries of the law in the pursuit of justice.”

Posted at 11:07 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Political, Legal, and Moral Minefield That Donald Trump Left for Merrick Garland; Some fear that a former judge with a passionate belief in fairness and neutrality cannot effectively counter Trump”: David Rohde has this post online at The New Yorker.

Posted at 10:14 AM by Howard Bashman



“A National Injunction Setback for the Biden Administration”: Samuel Bray has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 10:00 AM by Howard Bashman