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.
“A
Senators-Only
Right
to
Sue
in
Shutdown
Deal;
In
their
legislation
reopening
the
government,
senators
awarded
themselves
a
legal
power
to
sue
the
government
that
should
be
universal”: Anya
Bidwell
and
Patrick
Jaicomo
have this
essay online
at
The
Wall
Street
Journal.
“Judging
The
Justice
System
In
The
Age
Of
Trump:
Nancy
Gertner.” You
can
access
the
new
episode
of
David
Lat’s
“Original
Jurisdiction”
podcast via
this
link.
“Gorsuch
Joins
Sotomayor
as
Supreme
Court
Children’s
Author”: Justin
Wise
of
Bloomberg
Law
has this
report.
“Justice
Dept.
Struggled
to
Find
Lawyers
to
Handle
Maurene
Comey
Suit;
Ms.
Comey,
the
daughter
of
the
former
F.B.I.
director
James
B.
Comey,
sued
the
Trump
administration
after
she
was
abruptly
fired;
Now
the
U.S.
attorney
in
Albany
has
agreed
to
take
the
case”: Jonah
E.
Bromwich
and
William
K.
Rashbaum
of
The
New
York
Times
have this
report.
“Abortion
Has
Remained
Mostly
Accessible.
That
May
Soon
Change.” The
New
York
Times
has
published this
editorial.
“The
Supreme
Court
Just
Took
a
Scary
Voting
Case
That
Has
Trump
Salivating.
He
Might
Be
Disappointed.” Law
professor Richard
L.
Hasen has this
Jurisprudence
essay online
at
Slate.