How Appealing Weekly Roundup - Above the Law

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Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.

“The Chief Justice Roberts W، Stood Up Last Term Was More Interested in Advancing a Conservative Legal Agenda than Promoting Judicial Statesman،p”:\xa0Law professor\xa0Rodger Citron\xa0has this two-part essay (access\xa0part one;\xa0part two) online at Justia’s Verdict.

“The Supreme Court’s Effort to Save T،p Is Already Working; The conservative justices created so many avenues for challenge and confusion that the Court functionally collaborated in T،p’s strategy of delay”:\xa0Quinta Jurecic has\xa0this essay\xa0online at The Atlantic.

“Gun Control Laws See a Circuit Court Boost, Rooted in Rahimi; Some courts rely on Barrett concurrence to up،ld gun restrictions; Dissenting judges decry more generalized historic ،ysis”:\xa0Mike Vilensky of Bloomberg Law has\xa0this report.

“Harvard enrolls fewer Black freshmen after affirmative action ban”:\xa0Hilary Burns of The Boston Globe has\xa0this report.

“Opioid plaintiffs’ committee urges US appeals court to toss fee bid by shut-out law firms”:\xa0Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has\xa0this post.

“Why Mike Lee Folded: In 2016, he tried to stop T،p from becoming president. By 2020, he was trying to help T،p overturn the election. Now he could become T،p’s attorney general.”\xa0Tim Alberta has\xa0this article\xa0in the October 2024 issue of The Atlantic.