{"id":139387,"date":"2025-12-19T10:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/19\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-38\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:58:38","slug":"how-appealing-weekly-roundup-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/19\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-38\/","title":{"rendered":"How Appealing Weekly Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/GettyImages-509557490-620x413.jpg?resize=620%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Ed. Note<\/strong><\/em>: <em>A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/howappealing.abovethelaw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">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<p><strong>\u201cDC Circuit likely to reject Peter Navarro\u2019s contempt appeal on broad executive privilege theory; The Justice Department declined to defend the conviction on Thursday, simply stating its position had changed from the Biden administration\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/dc-circuit-likely-to-reject-peter-navarros-contempt-appeal-on-broad-executive-privilege-theory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAmul Thapar Desperately Wants to Be a Trump Supreme Court Justice; How do ambitious appeals court judges get the White House to notice them? Invent a new legal theory that just so happens to align with Trump\u2019s anti-immigrant agenda.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Madiba K. Dennie has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballsandstrikes.org\/law-politics\/amul-thapar-supreme-court-audition-opinion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this essay<\/a>\u00a0online at Balls and Strikes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSCOTUSblog Falls Into the MAGA Orbit\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Jonathan Zasloff recently had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/legal-planet.org\/2025\/12\/12\/scotusblog-falls-into-the-maga-orbit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>\u00a0at the \u201cLegalPlanet\u201d blog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNew Judges Take Charge of Sept. 11 Case at Guant\u00e1namo; The long-running case had been on hold for nearly a year because of higher court appeals and the retirement of the military judge\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/18\/us\/politics\/judges-sept-11-guantanamo.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cLuigi Mangione faces uphill battle after marathon evidence hearing; \u2018I think the evidence comes in from the backpack,\u2019 a former Brooklyn prosecutor said; \u2018In a murder case like this, if there is any legal basis to allow that evidence in, a judge is going to find it\u2019\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Erik Uebelacker of Courthouse News Service has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/luigi-mangione-faces-uphill-battle-after-marathon-evidence-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTikTok Signs Agreements With Investors in Step Toward Avoiding a U.S. Ban; The Chinese-owned video app formalized commitments from the software giant Oracle and two investment firms as part of a deal to keep operating in the United States\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Emmett Lindner of The New York Times has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/18\/business\/media\/tiktok-deal-agreements-us-investors.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Judges Being Pizza Doxxed in My Dead Son\u2019s Name\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0U.S. District Judge\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/salas-esther\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Esther Salas<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.njd.uscourts.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">D.N.J.<\/a>) has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/18\/opinion\/trump-judges-attacks-rhetoric.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this Opinion Video<\/a>\u00a0online at The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/12\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-150\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How Appealing Weekly Roundup<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/GettyImages-509557490-620x413.jpg?resize=620%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Ed. Note<\/strong><\/em>: <em>A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/howappealing.abovethelaw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">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<p><strong>\u201cDC Circuit likely to reject Peter Navarro\u2019s contempt appeal on broad executive privilege theory; The Justice Department declined to defend the conviction on Thursday, simply stating its position had changed from the Biden administration\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/dc-circuit-likely-to-reject-peter-navarros-contempt-appeal-on-broad-executive-privilege-theory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAmul Thapar Desperately Wants to Be a Trump Supreme Court Justice; How do ambitious appeals court judges get the White House to notice them? Invent a new legal theory that just so happens to align with Trump\u2019s anti-immigrant agenda.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Madiba K. Dennie has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballsandstrikes.org\/law-politics\/amul-thapar-supreme-court-audition-opinion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this essay<\/a>\u00a0online at Balls and Strikes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSCOTUSblog Falls Into the MAGA Orbit\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Jonathan Zasloff recently had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/legal-planet.org\/2025\/12\/12\/scotusblog-falls-into-the-maga-orbit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>\u00a0at the \u201cLegalPlanet\u201d blog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNew Judges Take Charge of Sept. 11 Case at Guant\u00e1namo; The long-running case had been on hold for nearly a year because of higher court appeals and the retirement of the military judge\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/18\/us\/politics\/judges-sept-11-guantanamo.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cLuigi Mangione faces uphill battle after marathon evidence hearing; \u2018I think the evidence comes in from the backpack,\u2019 a former Brooklyn prosecutor said; \u2018In a murder case like this, if there is any legal basis to allow that evidence in, a judge is going to find it\u2019\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Erik Uebelacker of Courthouse News Service has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/luigi-mangione-faces-uphill-battle-after-marathon-evidence-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTikTok Signs Agreements With Investors in Step Toward Avoiding a U.S. Ban; The Chinese-owned video app formalized commitments from the software giant Oracle and two investment firms as part of a deal to keep operating in the United States\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Emmett Lindner of The New York Times has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/18\/business\/media\/tiktok-deal-agreements-us-investors.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Judges Being Pizza Doxxed in My Dead Son\u2019s Name\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0U.S. District Judge\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/salas-esther\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Esther Salas<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.njd.uscourts.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">D.N.J.<\/a>) has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/18\/opinion\/trump-judges-attacks-rhetoric.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this Opinion Video<\/a>\u00a0online at The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/12\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-150\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How Appealing Weekly Roundup<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u201cDC Circuit likely to reject Peter Navarro\u2019s contempt appeal on broad executive privilege theory; The Justice Department declined to defend the conviction [&hellip;]<\/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-139387","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\/139387","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=139387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139387\/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=139387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}