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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
Who
Stood
Up
Last
Term
Was
More
Interested
in
Advancing
a
Conservative
Legal
Agenda
than
Promoting
Judicial
Statesmanship”: Law
professor Rodger
Citron has
this
two-part
essay
(access part
one; part
two)
online
at
Justia’s
Verdict.
“The
Supreme
Court’s
Effort
to
Save
Trump
Is
Already
Working;
The
conservative
justices
created
so
many
avenues
for
challenge
and
confusion
that
the
Court
functionally
collaborated
in
Trump’s
strategy
of
delay”: Quinta
Jurecic
has this
essay online
at
The
Atlantic.
“Gun
Control
Laws
See
a
Circuit
Court
Boost,
Rooted
in
Rahimi;
Some
courts
rely
on
Barrett
concurrence
to
uphold
gun
restrictions;
Dissenting
judges
decry
more
generalized
historic
analysis”: Mike
Vilensky
of
Bloomberg
Law
has this
report.
“Harvard
enrolls
fewer
Black
freshmen
after
affirmative
action
ban”: Hilary
Burns
of
The
Boston
Globe
has this
report.
“Opioid
plaintiffs’
committee
urges
US
appeals
court
to
toss
fee
bid
by
shut-out
law
firms”: Alison
Frankel’s
“On
the
Case”
from
Reuters
has this
post.
“Why
Mike
Lee
Folded:
In
2016,
he
tried
to
stop
Trump
from
becoming
president.
By
2020,
he
was
trying
to
help
Trump
overturn
the
election.
Now
he
could
become
Trump’s
attorney
general.” Tim
Alberta
has this
article in
the
October
2024
issue
of
The
Atlantic.