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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

“Trump-appointed judges behind Yale boycott to speak at school next week”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

According to the article, this is a Yale University event that is separate from the talk the two judges are planning to give at Yale Law School at a date and time yet to be announced. Next week’s event will be live-streamed on YouTube via this link.

Posted at 7:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court Is On Another Execution Spree; The Court considered four death penalty cases with serious constitutional issues; It gave states the go-ahead in all of them”: Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

Posted at 1:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“Scotland Cannot Unilaterally Vote on Independence, Top U.K. Court Says; In a setback to Scottish nationalists, the judges ruled that a second referendum on breaking away from London needed the consent of the British Parliament”: Mark Landler of The New York Times has this report.

William Booth of The Washington Post reports that “U.K. Supreme Court rules that Scotland cannot hold independence referendum.”

And Max Colchester of The Wall Street Journal reports that “U.K. High Court Blocks Second Scottish Independence Vote; Scotland voted against breaking away in 2014, but its ruling party wants another vote in the wake of Brexit.”

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom today issued this ruling and this press summary of the ruling.

Posted at 11:14 AM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Tax Order Is Latest Rebuff by Supreme Court That He Remade; Justices reject him for fourth time since he left White House; His claims over tax returns, Mar-a-Lago fail to get traction”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

Posted at 11:02 AM by Howard Bashman



“Abortion Providers, North Dakota Tee Up Case Over Near-Total Ban”: Mary Anne Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has an article that begins, “The fate of a near-total ban on abortion in North Dakota is now in the hands of the state’s top court, which will hear oral arguments Nov. 29 on whether to lift a lower court’s order blocking the ban’s enforcement.”

Posted at 10:56 AM by Howard Bashman



“Religious Liberty and the Right to Vacation in Jackson Hole: The problem isn’t the leaks; it’s the stench.” You can access today’s bonus episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast, featuring Dahlia Lithwick and her guest, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), via this link.

Among other things, they discuss Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge William H. Pryor Jr.‘s recent remarks at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention (see here, here, and here for some earlier coverage of the remarks).

Posted at 10:53 AM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court’s New Second Amendment Test Is Off to a Wild Start; The majority’s arguments in last year’s big gun-control ruling has touched off some truly chaotic interpretations from lower courts”: Matt Ford of The New Republic has this report.

Posted at 10:48 AM by Howard Bashman