{"id":157147,"date":"2026-07-17T07:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/17\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-6\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:05:40","slug":"how-appealing-weekly-roundup-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/17\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-6\/","title":{"rendered":"How Appealing Weekly Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed. Note<\/strong><\/em>: 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

\u201cThe Trump Administration\u2019s Portentous Subpoenas of NYT Reporters; Law v. norms, once more\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Jack Goldsmith has\u00a0this post<\/a>\u00a0at the \u201cExecutive Functions\u201d Substack site.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018I\u2019m His Lawyer\u2019: Blanche Told the Truth About Trump\u2019s DOJ.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Law professor\u00a0Barbara McQuade<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0this essay<\/a>\u00a0online at Bloomberg Opinion.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite Judge\u2019s Smackdown, Trump Plans To Keep Deal Killing Tax Audits; Trump could save millions thanks to an order by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche barring the government from trying to collect any taxes Trump might have owed\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Arthur Delaney and Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost have\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBonus 238: The Court Against the Courts; As part of the Harvard Law Review\u2019s annual Supreme Court issue for OT2025, my Foreword argues that the Supreme Court is quietly dismantling the district courts\u2019 authority \u2014 and arrogating it to itself.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Steve Vladeck has\u00a0this post<\/a>\u00a0at his \u201cOne First\u201d Substack site.<\/p>\n

\u201cTodd Blanche: The January 6 Slush Fund I Approved Is Not My Fault. Trump\u2019s nominee for attorney general has backed off his $1.8 billion \u2018anti-weaponization fund.\u2019 Kind of. Mostly.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Madiba K. Dennie has\u00a0this essay<\/a>\u00a0online at Balls and Strikes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Originalism Jumped the Shark\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Linda Greenhouse has\u00a0this guest essay<\/a>\u00a0online at The New York Times.<\/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>: 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

\u201cThe Trump Administration\u2019s Portentous Subpoenas of NYT Reporters; Law v. norms, once more\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Jack Goldsmith has\u00a0this post<\/a>\u00a0at the \u201cExecutive Functions\u201d Substack site.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018I\u2019m His Lawyer\u2019: Blanche Told the Truth About Trump\u2019s DOJ.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Law professor\u00a0Barbara McQuade<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0this essay<\/a>\u00a0online at Bloomberg Opinion.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite Judge\u2019s Smackdown, Trump Plans To Keep Deal Killing Tax Audits; Trump could save millions thanks to an order by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche barring the government from trying to collect any taxes Trump might have owed\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Arthur Delaney and Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost have\u00a0this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBonus 238: The Court Against the Courts; As part of the Harvard Law Review\u2019s annual Supreme Court issue for OT2025, my Foreword argues that the Supreme Court is quietly dismantling the district courts\u2019 authority \u2014 and arrogating it to itself.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Steve Vladeck has\u00a0this post<\/a>\u00a0at his \u201cOne First\u201d Substack site.<\/p>\n

\u201cTodd Blanche: The January 6 Slush Fund I Approved Is Not My Fault. Trump\u2019s nominee for attorney general has backed off his $1.8 billion \u2018anti-weaponization fund.\u2019 Kind of. Mostly.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Madiba K. Dennie has\u00a0this essay<\/a>\u00a0online at Balls and Strikes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Originalism Jumped the Shark\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Linda Greenhouse has\u00a0this guest essay<\/a>\u00a0online at The New York Times.<\/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. \u201cThe Trump Administration\u2019s Portentous Subpoenas of NYT Reporters; Law v. norms, once more\u201d:\u00a0Jack Goldsmith has\u00a0this post\u00a0at the \u201cExecutive Functions\u201d Substack site. \u201c\u2018I\u2019m […]<\/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-157147","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\/157147","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=157147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157147\/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=157147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}