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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.
“With
more
support
than
ever
for
innocence
claim,
Richard
Glossip
prepped
for
round
2
at
SCOTUS;
Convincing
a
Republican
attorney
general
to
advocate
against
a
death
sentence
is
a
near
impossible
feat,
but
Supreme
Court
roadblocks
could
force
Oklahoma
to
execute
a
man
in
a
conviction
it
doesn’t
accept”: Kelsey
Reichmann
of
Courthouse
News
Service
has this
report.
“Republicans
expect
to
confirm
even
more
Supreme
Court
justices
if
Trump
wins;
GOP
senators
anticipate
that
in
a
second
term,
Trump
would
have
at
least
one
Supreme
Court
vacancy
to
fill;
Democrats
hope
that
prospect
motivates
their
voters
this
fall”: Sahil
Kapur
of
NBC
News
has this
report.
“More
Women
Are
Being
Locked
Up
for
Their
Pregnancies
Than
Ever
Before;
Thank
the
Supreme
Court”: Law
professor Mary
Ziegler has this
Jurisprudence
essay online
at
Slate.
“Victim’s
Unsealed
Testimony
Reveals
New
Details
in
Epstein
Case;
The
woman
testified
in
a
now-settled
lawsuit
against
JPMorgan
Chase
on
behalf
of
hundreds
of
Jeffrey
Epstein’s
victims”: Matthew
Goldstein
of
The
New
York
Times
has this
report.
“Jack
Smith’s
Big
New
Jan.
6
Brief
Is
a
Major
Indictment
of
the
Supreme
Court”: Law
professor Richard
L.
Hasen —
founder
of
the
“Election
Law
Blog”
—
has this
Jurisprudence
essay online
at
Slate.
“Fifth
Circuit
Doubles
Down
on International
Shoe“: Maggie
Gardner
recently
had this
interesting
post at
the
“Transnational
Litigation
Blog.”