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.
“Did
a
Supreme
Court
Loss
Embolden
Trump
on
the
Insurrection
Act?
In
refusing
to
let
the
president
deploy
National
Guard
troops
in
Illinois
under
an
obscure
law,
the
justices
may
have
made
him
more
apt
to
invoke
greater
powers.” Adam
Liptak
of
The
New
York
Times
has this
news
analysis.
“Conservatives
On
X
Are
Pretty
Sure
Amy
Coney
Barrett
Is
Woke
Now;
The
author
of
the
perhaps
the
most
aggressively
anti-trans
Supreme
Court
opinion
in
recent
memory
is
getting
branded
as
an
ideological
traitor
who
ignores
‘biological
truth’”: Jay
Willis
has this
post at
his
“Balls
&
Strikes”
Substack
site.
“7
Predictions
For
The
Legal
World
In
2026:
SCOTUS
retirements,
$10
million
in
profits
per
partner,
Trump
v.
Biglaw,
Kirkland
v.
Wachtell
—
whatever
it
ends
up
being,
the
year
ahead
won’t
be
boring.” David
Lat
has this
post at
his
“Original
Jurisdiction”
Substack
site.
“Supreme
Court
allows
Illinois
congressman
to
challenge
mail-in
balloting;
The
high
court’s
7-2
ruling
dealt
with
the
narrow
question
of
whether
Republican
congressman
Michael
Bost
and
others
had
standing
to
sue”: Justin
Jouvenal
and
Patrick
Marley
of
The
Washington
Post
have this
report.
“Newsom
Says
California
Will
Not
Extradite
Abortion
Provider
to
Louisiana;
The
case,
escalating
the
interstate
battle
over
abortion,
is
the
second
time
Louisiana
has
criminally
charged
out-of-state
doctors
with
sending
abortion
pills
to
Louisiana
residents”: Pam
Belluck
of
The
New
York
Times
has this
report.
“Renee
Good’s
Family
Should
Be
Able
to
Sue
the
Officer
Who
Killed
Her”: Law
professors Erwin
Chemerinsky and Burt
Neuborne have this
guest
essay online
at
The
New
York
Times.