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.
“DC
Circuit
likely
to
reject
Peter
Navarro’s
contempt
appeal
on
broad
executive
privilege
theory;
The
Justice
Department
declined
to
defend
the
conviction
on
Thursday,
simply
stating
its
position
had
changed
from
the
Biden
administration”: Ryan
Knappenberger
of
Courthouse
News
Service
has this
report.
“Amul
Thapar
Desperately
Wants
to
Be
a
Trump
Supreme
Court
Justice;
How
do
ambitious
appeals
court
judges
get
the
White
House
to
notice
them?
Invent
a
new
legal
theory
that
just
so
happens
to
align
with
Trump’s
anti-immigrant
agenda.” Madiba
K.
Dennie
has this
essay online
at
Balls
and
Strikes.
“SCOTUSblog
Falls
Into
the
MAGA
Orbit”: Jonathan
Zasloff
recently
had this
post at
the
“LegalPlanet”
blog.
“New
Judges
Take
Charge
of
Sept.
11
Case
at
Guantánamo;
The
long-running
case
had
been
on
hold
for
nearly
a
year
because
of
higher
court
appeals
and
the
retirement
of
the
military
judge”: Carol
Rosenberg
of
The
New
York
Times
has this
report.
“Luigi
Mangione
faces
uphill
battle
after
marathon
evidence
hearing;
‘I
think
the
evidence
comes
in
from
the
backpack,’
a
former
Brooklyn
prosecutor
said;
‘In
a
murder
case
like
this,
if
there
is
any
legal
basis
to
allow
that
evidence
in,
a
judge
is
going
to
find
it’”: Erik
Uebelacker
of
Courthouse
News
Service
has this
report.
“TikTok
Signs
Agreements
With
Investors
in
Step
Toward
Avoiding
a
U.S.
Ban;
The
Chinese-owned
video
app
formalized
commitments
from
the
software
giant
Oracle
and
two
investment
firms
as
part
of
a
deal
to
keep
operating
in
the
United
States”: Emmett
Lindner
of
The
New
York
Times
has this
report.
“The
Judges
Being
Pizza
Doxxed
in
My
Dead
Son’s
Name”: U.S.
District
Judge Esther
Salas (D.N.J.)
has this
Opinion
Video online
at
The
New
York
Times.