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How Appealing Weekly Roundup

Gavel, scales of justice and law books

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Gavel, scales of justice and law books

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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.

“Supreme Court upholds Californian’s drug trafficking conviction that leaned on expert’s opinion”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“Democrats seek to repeal Comstock abortion rule, fearing Trump crackdown; The Comstock Act, an 1873 law that bans abortion-related materials from being sent through the mail, could be used by the GOP to restrict abortion nationwide”: Dan Diamond and Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post have this report.

“Judge in Trump Documents Case Rejected Suggestions to Step Aside; Two federal judges in South Florida privately urged Aileen M. Cannon to decline the case when it was assigned to her last year, according to two people briefed on the matter; She chose to keep it”: Charlie Savage and Alan Feuer of The New York Times have this report.

“Something’s Rotten About the Justices Taking So Long on Trump’s Immunity Case”: Law professor Leah Litman has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“If Trump Loses, We Might Owe the Supreme Court; They keep handing Biden all the arguments he needs to win”: Jill Lawrence has this post at The Bulwark.