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.
“There Are Scandals. There Is the Law. And Then There’s This.” Emily Bazelon and David French have this conversation online at The New York Times.
“NY High Court, Volokh Tussle With Hate Speech Law’s Requirements”: Beth Wang of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).
“Trump Just Took Us Somewhere the Country Has Never Been Before”: Noah Shachtman has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
“Supreme Court dismisses death penalty case on people with mental disabilities; The majority dismissed on procedural grounds the case of Joseph Clifton Smith, whose mental faculties skirt the threshold for being spared the death penalty”: Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has this report.
“Audit Immunity for Trump Family Puts I.R.S. in a Bind; Federal law prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from halting an audit at the direction of the president or his aides”: Andrew Duehren of The New York Times has this news analysis.
“After languishing in state legislatures across the country, a novel approach to curtailing money in politics becomes law in Hawaii; SB 2471 was crafted allow the state to curb corporate political spending”: Will Lennon and Beatrice Peterson of ABC News have this report.
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