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.
“Senate
advances
Third
Circuit
nominee
Mascott
amid
Democratic
objections;
Delaware
Senator
Chris
Coons
has
long
complained
that
Jennifer
Mascott
lacks
a
sufficient
connection
to
his
home
state,
where
the
Trump
administration
official
would
likely
consider
some
cases
as
an
appellate
judge”: Benjamin
S.
Weiss
of
Courthouse
News
Service
has this
report.
“The
Story
of
This
Supreme
Court
Term
Is
Already
On
YouTube;
Using
soft-lit
infomercial-style
videos,
conservative
activists
are
building
a
shared
cultural
understanding
about
who
deserves
the
law’s
protections,
and
who
does
not”: Jay
Willis
has this
essay online
at
Balls
and
Strikes.
“Judge
Dismisses
Lawsuit
Over
Naked
Baby
on
Nirvana’s
‘Nevermind’;
The
man
pictured
as
a
naked
baby
on
the
cover
of
Nirvana’s
seminal
second
album
argued
that
the
band
had
engaged
in
child
sex
abuse
imagery”: Derrick
Bryson
Taylor
of
The
New
York
Times
has this
report.
“Supreme
Court’s
Cook
Decision
Gives
Fed
Breathing
Room,
For
Now”: Enda
Curran,
Catarina
Saraiva,
and
Amara
Omeokwe
of
Bloomberg
News
have this
report.
“Judges’
Mental
Well-Being
Gets
New
Attention
as
Threats
Rise”: Suzanne
Monyak
of
Bloomberg
Law
has this
report.
“Frozen
feud:
How
Trump
and
the
Supreme
Court
helped
put
historic
Whole
Foods
union
bid
on
ice.” John
Kruzel
and
Daniel
Wiessner
of
Reuters
have this
report.