{"id":109987,"date":"2025-03-07T17:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/07\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-15\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:03:18","slug":"how-appealing-weekly-roundup-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/07\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-15\/","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

\u201cSenate Judiciary Democrats seek probe of D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin; Sen. Dick Durbin alleges the Trump loyalist abused power; Martin says Durbin \u2018weaponized\u2019 D.C.\u2019s legal disciplinary system against Trump\u2019s lawyers\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cJudge reduces Adnan Syed\u2019s sentence, allowing him to stay out of prison; The judge wrote that the subject of the \u2018Serial\u2019 podcast was \u2018not a danger to the public and that the interests of justice will be better served by a reduced sentence\u2019\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Omari Daniels and Dan Morse of The Washington Post have\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice Amy Coney Barrett ignites anger on the right after ruling against Trump; Conservative allies of President Donald Trump called Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett \u2018evil,\u2019 a \u2018closet Democrat\u2019 and a \u2018DEI hire\u2019\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cKim Davis loses. Again. Unanimously. (But, this still might not be the end.) The Sixth Circuit rejected the appeal of the former Kentucky county clerk who was sued after she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Geidner has\u00a0this post<\/a>\u00a0at his Substack site.<\/p>\n

\u201cImpeachment Threats to Judges Don\u2019t Meet Historical Standard\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Paul Grimm has\u00a0this essay<\/a>\u00a0online at Bloomberg Law.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhistleblower Chief Trump Fired Ends Fight After Court Loss\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Zoe Tillman and Erik Larson of Bloomberg News have\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/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

\u201cSenate Judiciary Democrats seek probe of D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin; Sen. Dick Durbin alleges the Trump loyalist abused power; Martin says Durbin \u2018weaponized\u2019 D.C.\u2019s legal disciplinary system against Trump\u2019s lawyers\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cJudge reduces Adnan Syed\u2019s sentence, allowing him to stay out of prison; The judge wrote that the subject of the \u2018Serial\u2019 podcast was \u2018not a danger to the public and that the interests of justice will be better served by a reduced sentence\u2019\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Omari Daniels and Dan Morse of The Washington Post have\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice Amy Coney Barrett ignites anger on the right after ruling against Trump; Conservative allies of President Donald Trump called Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett \u2018evil,\u2019 a \u2018closet Democrat\u2019 and a \u2018DEI hire\u2019\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cKim Davis loses. Again. Unanimously. (But, this still might not be the end.) The Sixth Circuit rejected the appeal of the former Kentucky county clerk who was sued after she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Geidner has\u00a0this post<\/a>\u00a0at his Substack site.<\/p>\n

\u201cImpeachment Threats to Judges Don\u2019t Meet Historical Standard\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Paul Grimm has\u00a0this essay<\/a>\u00a0online at Bloomberg Law.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhistleblower Chief Trump Fired Ends Fight After Court Loss\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Zoe Tillman and Erik Larson of Bloomberg News have\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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