Ed. Note: A weekly summary of selected articles from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the web’s premier blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.
“There are scandals. There is the law. And then there is this.” Emily Bazelon and David French have this conversation online at the New York Times.
“New York High Court and Volokh Fight Against Hate Speech Law Requirements”: Beth Wang of Bloomberg Law this report (subscription required for full access).
“Trump just took us to a place the country has never been before”: Noah Shachtman this guest essay online at the New York Times.
“Supreme Court Rejects Case for Death Penalty Against Mentally Disabled Persons; Majority Dismissed on Procedural Reasons Case of Joseph Clifton Smith, Whose Mental Faculties Crosses Threshold to Be Spared of Death Penalty”: Justin Jouvenal of the Washington Post this report.
“Audit immunity for the Trump family puts the IRS in a bind; federal law prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from stopping an audit at the direction of the president or his aides”: Andrew Duehren of the New York Times this analysis of the news.
“After stagnating in state legislatures across the country, a new approach to cutting money in politics becomes law in Hawaii; SB 2471 was designed to allow the state to limit corporate political spending”: Will Lennon and Beatrice Peterson of ABC News have this report.
