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MAY 11, 2025
“Riggs won NCs Supreme Court battle, but elections will face long-term consequences”: Kyle Ingram of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report. And that newspaper has also published an editorial titled “ These six judges brought shame to our state in the NC Supreme Court race.
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MAY 11, 2025
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HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2025
“David Souter Set an Example for the Supreme Court; A former clerk of the justice writes that his career stands as a model for the court to emulate to survive the dangers it is facing”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
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MAY 11, 2025
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MAY 11, 2025
“Republicans are attempting to boot three Democratic justices from the Pa. Supreme Court — and for the first time, Dems are worried; Will Elon Musk get involved with Pennsylvanias November election? These usually sleepy judicial races have Democrats worried.” Gillian McGoldrick of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.
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HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2025
“US court picks ex-judge Costa to defend Texas limits on guns in bars”: Mike Scarcella of Reuters has this report.
Conflict of Laws
MAY 11, 2025
Guest post by Bebizuh Mulugeta Menkir, former Lecturer of Laws in University of Gondar, currently working as a Lawyer and Senior National Consultant for a legal reform project. E-mail: babimulugeta@gmail.com The Ethiopian legal system is characterized by the absence of codified rules on conflict of laws. Though it cannot be considered as the exact period in which conflict of laws have emerged in Ethiopia, some elements of such rules can be found even in the early 1900s, which is long before the
HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2025
“Friends reflect on Souter’s role in civic fabric of the state: ‘He loved New Hampshire deeply. Todd Bookman and Kate Dario of New Hampshire Public Radio have this report.
JonathanTurley
MAY 11, 2025
I had the pleasure this weekend of returning to both my hometown and my alma mater, The University of Chicago, to discuss my book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage and American journalism. It was a glorious day on campus and I wanted to share a few photos if you have not been to the university. In walking into Rockefeller Chapel, it did not seem that long ago that I sat there at my own graduation despite being over 40 years ago.
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MAY 11, 2025
“UM law professor: Supreme Court is running on conservative grievance, bad vibes and fringe theories. Matthew Miller of MLive has this report. And Pema Levy of Mother Jones has an article headlined “ The Supreme Court Is Really ‘Just Vibes’; In a new book, legal podcaster Leah Litman describes how the GOP and its jurists are ‘just not that into democracy.
JURIST
MAY 11, 2025
Pakistani and Indian officials announced an immediate ceasefire Saturday in regard to the escalation over the disputed regions of Kashmir and Jammu, spiked by a devastating terrorist attack. The ceasefire was brokered between the two countries with involvement of US Secretary of State Marko Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, who acted as a mediator between the two governments.
HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2025
“Former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan L. Hecht Joins Jackson Walker”: That law firm has issued this news release.
JURIST
MAY 11, 2025
Bangladesh’s interim government banned all activities of the Awami League, the main opposition party, Saturday. The advisory council, led by Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel peace prize laureate, also amended the International Crimes Tribunal Act. The change lets the tribunal penalize political parties, their affiliated groups, and supporters. The government said the ban would stay in place until the Awami League and its leaders face trial over the deaths of hundreds of protesters at the Internatio
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MAY 11, 2025
“Britain tries to make sense of landmark ruling on transgender people; The Supreme Court ruled that only biological women are women; Now British institutions are trying to figure out what that means”: William Booth of The Washington Post has this report.
Above The Law
MAY 11, 2025
Biglaw Partners Are Moving On: White & Case and Paul Weiss lose some pretty big names from their rosters. Speaking Of White & Case: They’re headed back to the office 4 days a week. Capitulating Biglaw Firms Featured On 60 Minutes : And it isn’t a good look. Those Trump Deals Are Under A Congressional Microscope: And they give some surprising answers.
HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2025
“Birthright citizenship tests Supreme Court’s willingness to let courts block Trump; President Trump is counting on the Supreme Court to limit the ability of judges to put his policies on hold while they’re being challenged”: Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report. And Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service reports that “ Supreme Court confronts Trump power grab; The Supreme Courts review of Trumps plan to end birthright citizenship for some immigrants cou
JonathanTurley
MAY 11, 2025
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has previously been criticized for making public comments that some viewed as overly political or partisan, including telling law students to organize in favor of abortion rights. This week, the Justice has triggered another controversy in calling for lawyers to “fight this fight,” presumably against the Trump Administration.
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MAY 11, 2025
“Judges warn Trumps mass deportations could lay groundwork to ensnare Americans; Judges across the country continue to note that if courts dont protect the rights of the least popular and most vulnerable, everyone is at risk”: Kyle Cheney of Politico has this report.
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