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.
“Alabama
Is
Asking
the
Supreme
Court
For
Some
Leeway
On
‘Cruel
and
Unusual
Punishment’;
In
2002,
the
Court
decided
that
the
Constitution
does
not
allow
executions
of
intellectually
disabled
people;
But
states
are
testing
that
holding’s
limits”: Madiba
K.
Dennie
has this
essay online
at
Balls
and
Strikes.
“South
Carolina
man
asks
Fourth
Circuit
for
new
trial
in
trans
woman’s
slaying;
Daqua
Ritter’s
case
was
the
first
time
federal
prosecutors
brought
a
hate
crime
based
on
gender
identity
to
trial”: Steve
Garrison
of
Courthouse
News
Service
has this
report.
“Halligan’s
US
attorney
nomination
appears
dead
on
arrival
in
Senate;
Both
Democratic
senators
from
Virginia
signaled
they
would
withhold
blue
slips
for
the
controversial
nominee,
who
served
as
the
acting
lead
prosecutor
in
the
Eastern
District
of
Virginia
until
she
was
disqualified
by
a
judge”: Benjamin
S.
Weiss
of
Courthouse
News
Service
has this
report.
“Remember
the
Torture
Memos?
The
Boat
Strike
Memos
May
Be
Worse.
The
Trump
administration
needs
to
release
the
legal
analysis
underpinning
its
controversial
military
campaign.” Ankush
Khardori
has this
essay online
at
Politico
Magazine.
“Laurence
Tribe’s
‘security
blanket’
for
Supreme
Court
advocacy”: Harvard
Law
School
has
posted this
video on
YouTube.
“We’re
Trying
to
Find
a
Line
the
Supreme
Court
Won’t
Cross”: Emily
Bazelon
and
David
French
have this
Conversation online
at
The
New
York
Times
Opinion.