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Sunday, July 12, 2020

“Before World War II and seat on Supreme Court, Colorado’s Byron ‘Whizzer’ White had iconic football career”: Ryan O’Halloran of The Denver Post has this report.

Posted at 8:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Robocall case exposes a troubling free-speech split on the Supreme Court”: Columnist Michael McGough recently had this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 8:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“The McGirt Case Is a Historic Win for Tribes; For federal Indian law, this might be the Gorsuch Court”: Julian Brave NoiseCat has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 5:52 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Halted Progress of Criminal-Justice Reform; Prosecutors are charging protesters with federal crimes, exposing them to long prison sentences, in another example of the Justice Department’s grotesque overreach under Attorney General William Barr”: Jeffrey Toobin will have this Comment in the Talk of the Town section of the July 20, 2020 issue of The New Yorker.

Posted at 3:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Why did liberals win so many cases before a conservative Supreme Court? The Court’s term included several surprisingly liberal decisions. Don’t expect many of them to last.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

Posted at 3:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Latest Term Shows John Roberts in Command of Shifting Coalitions; The chief justice, at the court’s center, is a strong voice for independence”: Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Posted at 3:46 PM by Howard Bashman