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Thursday, April 6, 2023

“Religious Freedom is for Everyone; The idea that religious protections apply only to members of ‘minority’ religions and not to traditional Christians runs into several problems”: John O. McGinnis has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

Posted at 9:53 PM by Howard Bashman



“Idaho Passes Law To Restrict Interstate Travel For Abortion Care For Minors; Abortion trafficking is now a felony offense in the state, punishable by up to five years in prison”: Alanna Vagianos of HuffPost has this report.

Posted at 9:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Los Angeles Times reported about Justice Thomas’ gifts 20 years ago. After that he stopped disclosing them.” David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Back on December 31, 2004, Richard A. Serrano and David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times had an article headlined “Justice Thomas Reports Wealth of Gifts.” This blog was also in existence back in December 2004, and my contemporaneous posts linking to that article can be accessed here and here.

Posted at 9:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court refuses to reinstate West Virginia’s transgender athlete ban”: Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post have this report.

You can access today’s Order of the U.S. Supreme Court, from which Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. issued a dissent, in which Justice Clarence Thomas joined, at this link.

Posted at 3:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“Hilton pension case sparks appellate split over ‘free standing’ rule against fail-safe classes”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.

Posted at 1:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘Nine Black Robes’ Review: A Curious Court Chronicle; For CNN’s Supreme Court analyst, a ‘far-right bloc’ controls the court, and Justice Samuel Alito wears a ‘heavy cloak of grievance.'” Kyle Peterson had this book review in yesterday’s issue of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 1:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Joe Biden Embarrasses Elena Kagan (and I Console Her); Even an excellent teacher can do only so much with a dim pupil”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

Posted at 1:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“Inside Janet Protasiewicz’s massive win in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race”: Alexander Shur of Wisconsin State Journal has this report.

Shawn Johnson of Wisconsin Public Radio reports that “For liberals, flipping Wisconsin’s Supreme Court was years in the making; The lopsided victory by Janet Protasiewicz continued trends for liberal court candidates, and for Wisconsin voters.”

Patrick Marley, Colby Itkowitz, Hannah Knowles, and Dylan Wells of The Washington Post report that “Wisconsin Supreme Court election sends message on abortion rights.”

And in today’s edition of The New York Times, Reid J. Epstein has a front page news analysis headlined “Wisconsin Rout Points to Democrats’ Enduring Post-Dobbs Strength; A resounding victory by a liberal judge who ran on abortion rights showed that a largely unified political left is keeping up its momentum, and served as a new warning sign to Republicans.”

Posted at 1:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Thomas accepted luxury travel for years from GOP donor, report says”: John Wagner of The Washington Post has this report.

Tierney Sneed of CNN reports that “Justice Clarence Thomas accepted several luxury trips paid for by GOP megadonor, ProPublica report finds.”

Andrew Chung and John Kruzel of Reuters report that “Senators seek probes into report on undisclosed luxury trips by Supreme Court’s Thomas.”

Today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition” contained an audio segment titled “ProPublica investigates luxury vacations gifted to Supreme Court Justice Thomas.”

And at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine, Jonathan Chait has a post titled “Clarence Thomas and the Ethical Disaster of the Supreme Court: Undisclosed gifts from billionaires won’t even embarrass the right.”

Posted at 1:20 PM by Howard Bashman