{"id":107930,"date":"2025-02-07T10:02:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/07\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-11\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:02:49","slug":"how-appealing-weekly-roundup-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/07\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-11\/","title":{"rendered":"How Appealing Weekly Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed. Note<\/strong><\/em><\/u>: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman\u2019s How Appealing blog<\/a>, the Web\u2019s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis time, the anti-Trump resistance is in the courts, not in the streets; As the president issues orders that critics say disregard the law, a haphazard group of opponents is filing lawsuits \u2014 and it\u2019s starting to work\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Naftali Bendavid of The Washington Post has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And in commentary, online at The Washington Post, columnist Ruth Marcus has an essay titled \u201cCan the courts \u2014 can anyone \u2014 stop Trump? Despite my expectation of mixed success in legal battles with the president, there are reasons for tempered optimism here<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump Is Testing Our Constitutional System. It\u2019s Doing Fine. The president\u2019s flurry of illegal actions have been stopped by the courts. That\u2019s how it is supposed to work.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Law professor\u00a0Noah Feldman<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0this essay<\/a>\u00a0online at Bloomberg Opinion.<\/p>\n

And, in response, online at Balls and Strikes, Jay Willis has an essay titled \u201cOur Constitutional System Cannot Be \u2018Fine\u2019 When It Is Also On Fire; The possibility that a judge might someday declare Trump\u2019s actions illegal does nothing to stop the pain and suffering that the legal system allows Trump to inflict in the meantime<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the Supreme Court, at the White House and at his house, Clarence Thomas is the go-to justice to swear in Trump\u2019s Cabinet\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Joan Biskupic and Jeff Zeleny of CNN have\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Most Indefensible Aspects of DOJ\u2019s Briefs in the Birthright Citizenship Cases\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Marty Lederman has\u00a0this post<\/a>\u00a0at the \u201cJust Security\u201d blog.<\/p>\n

\u201cEighteen \u2018Pro-Life\u2019 States Demand the Freedom to Persecute American Babies\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Mark Joseph Stern has\u00a0this Jurisprudence essay<\/a>\u00a0online at Slate.<\/p>\n

The post How Appealing Weekly Roundup<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. Note<\/strong><\/em><\/u>: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman\u2019s How Appealing blog<\/a>, the Web\u2019s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis time, the anti-Trump resistance is in the courts, not in the streets; As the president issues orders that critics say disregard the law, a haphazard group of opponents is filing lawsuits \u2014 and it\u2019s starting to work\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Naftali Bendavid of The Washington Post has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And in commentary, online at The Washington Post, columnist Ruth Marcus has an essay titled \u201cCan the courts \u2014 can anyone \u2014 stop Trump? Despite my expectation of mixed success in legal battles with the president, there are reasons for tempered optimism here<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump Is Testing Our Constitutional System. It\u2019s Doing Fine. The president\u2019s flurry of illegal actions have been stopped by the courts. That\u2019s how it is supposed to work.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Law professor\u00a0Noah Feldman<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0this essay<\/a>\u00a0online at Bloomberg Opinion.<\/p>\n

And, in response, online at Balls and Strikes, Jay Willis has an essay titled \u201cOur Constitutional System Cannot Be \u2018Fine\u2019 When It Is Also On Fire; The possibility that a judge might someday declare Trump\u2019s actions illegal does nothing to stop the pain and suffering that the legal system allows Trump to inflict in the meantime<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the Supreme Court, at the White House and at his house, Clarence Thomas is the go-to justice to swear in Trump\u2019s Cabinet\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Joan Biskupic and Jeff Zeleny of CNN have\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Most Indefensible Aspects of DOJ\u2019s Briefs in the Birthright Citizenship Cases\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Marty Lederman has\u00a0this post<\/a>\u00a0at the \u201cJust Security\u201d blog.<\/p>\n

\u201cEighteen \u2018Pro-Life\u2019 States Demand the Freedom to Persecute American Babies\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Mark Joseph Stern has\u00a0this Jurisprudence essay<\/a>\u00a0online at Slate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman\u2019s How Appealing blog, the Web\u2019s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. \u201cThis time, the anti-Trump resistance is in the courts, not in the streets; As the president issues orders that critics say disregard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-509557490-1615jh.jpeg?fit=2121%2C1414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}