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.
“Supreme
Court
Secrecy
Includes
Reasons
for
Recusal;
Justices
often
don’t
disclose
why
they
disqualify
themselves
from
hearing
cases;
Their
silence
echoes
the
court’s
unexplained
emergency
orders”: Adam
Liptak
has this
new
installment of
his
“The
Docket”
newsletter
online
at
The
New
York
Times.
“U.S.
Supreme
Court
justice
Sonia
Sotomayor
urges
women
to
lead
with
passion”: Williesha
Morris
of
Alabama
Media
Group
has this
report.
“Three
ways
the
Supreme
Court
could
upend
the
midterm
elections;
Multiple
cases
before
the
justices
could
remake
rules
on
district
boundaries,
campaign
finance
and
the
eligibility
of
certain
mail-in
ballots”: Law
professor Richard
L.
Hasen has this
essay online
at
MS
Now.
“Supreme
Court
remade
by
Trump
ushers
in
historic
defeats
for
civil
rights;
The
court
is
the
first
since
at
least
the
’50s
to
reject
claims
in
a
majority
of
cases
involving
women
and
minorities,
an
analysis
conducted
for
The
Post
shows”: Justin
Jouvenal
of
The
Washington
Post
has this
report.
“How
Trump
Purged
Immigration
Judges
to
Speed
Up
Deportations;
Judges
are
ordering
an
unprecedented
number
of
people
deported
after
coming
under
significant
pressure
from
the
administration
to
do
so
or
risk
losing
their
jobs”: Nicholas
Nehamas,
Allison
McCann,
Steven
Rich,
Jazmine
Ulloa,
and
Hamed
Aleaziz
of
The
New
York
Times
have this
report.
“Brett
Kavanaugh’s
Colleagues
Are
Getting
Awfully
Tired
of
Brett
Kavanaugh;
Justice
Sonia
Sotomayor’s
comments
about
the
Supreme
Court’s
recent
racial
profiling
case
are
just
more
evidence
that
Kavanaugh’s
colleagues
kind
of
hate
his
guts”: Jay
Willis
has this
post at
his
“Balls
&
Strikes”
Substack
site.