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
Year
Inside
Kash
Patel’s
F.B.I.:
Forty-five
current
and
former
employees
on
the
changes
they
say
are
undermining
the
agency
and
making
America
less
safe.” Emily
Bazelon
and
Rachel
Poser
have this
article online
at
The
New
York
Times
Magazine.
“Fifth
Circuit
split
on
Trump’s
use
of
Alien
Enemies
Act
to
remove
Venezuelans;
Judges
questioned
the
extent
to
which
courts
have
the
power
to
second-guess
the
president’s
invocation
of
the
18th-century
law”: Christina
van
Waasbergen
of
Courthouse
News
Service
has this
report.
“IRS
Told
Goldstein
to
Keep
Better
Gambling
Records,
Jury
Hears”: Holly
Barker
of
Bloomberg
Law
has this
report (subscription
required
for
full
access).
“‘The
Justices
Might
Actually
Have
to
Say
No,
Even
to
the
President’”: Law
professors Kate
Shaw, William
Baude,
and Stephen
I.
Vladeck have this
written
discussion online
at
The
New
York
Times.
“Race
looms
large
in
gun-rights
arguments
at
Supreme
Court;
The
justices
debated
post-Civil
War
‘Black
codes’
as
they
mulled
a
Hawaii
law
limiting
guns
in
public
places”: Josh
Gerstein
of
Politico
has this
report.
“Supreme
Court
conservatives
have
downplayed
Trump’s
conduct.
The
Fed
case
may
change
that.” Joan
Biskupic
of
CNN
has this
news
analysis.