{"id":159057,"date":"2026-07-31T08:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/31\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-8\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:28:21","slug":"how-appealing-weekly-roundup-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/31\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-8\/","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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cU.S. Revives Obscure Court in Bid to Deport Afghan Woman; The case is a test of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, where much of the evidence is presented in secret and defendants cannot challenge how it was collected\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Alan Feuer and Adam Sella of The New York Times have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/30\/us\/doj-isis-alien-terrorist-removal-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.11A.3epY.IWwui8zCg20m&amp;smid=url-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cTrump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to Nomination; President Trump\u2019s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Glenn Thrush, Michael Gold, and Carl Hulse of The New York Times have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/30\/us\/politics\/trump-blanche-attorney-general-cornyn-tillis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.11A.y2H4.57w9SKNgyZsz&amp;smid=url-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cTwo more federal appeals courts reject ICE mass detention policy; The 9th and 7th circuits ruled on the same day that the Trump administration misconstrued immigration law\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Kyle Cheney of Politico has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/30\/ninth-circuit-ice-detention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this updated report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cBonus 241: The Mail-In Voting Applications; What the Supreme Court was asked to do on Monday is narrower than much of the coverage suggests, and a grant of relief would be far less significant than it will outwardly appear to be.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Steve Vladeck has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevevladeck.com\/p\/bonus-241-the-mail-in-voting-applications\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>\u00a0at his \u201cOne First\u201d Substack site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cTrump Says He Wants Supreme Court to Revive Suit Against Hillary Clinton\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Greg Stohr and Erik Larson of Bloomberg News have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-29\/trump-says-he-wants-supreme-court-to-revive-suit-against-clinton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-179\/\" 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=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/GettyImages-509557490-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Image via Getty)\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cU.S. Revives Obscure Court in Bid to Deport Afghan Woman; The case is a test of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, where much of the evidence is presented in secret and defendants cannot challenge how it was collected\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Alan Feuer and Adam Sella of The New York Times have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/30\/us\/doj-isis-alien-terrorist-removal-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.11A.3epY.IWwui8zCg20m&amp;smid=url-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cTrump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to Nomination; President Trump\u2019s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Glenn Thrush, Michael Gold, and Carl Hulse of The New York Times have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/30\/us\/politics\/trump-blanche-attorney-general-cornyn-tillis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.11A.y2H4.57w9SKNgyZsz&amp;smid=url-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cTwo more federal appeals courts reject ICE mass detention policy; The 9th and 7th circuits ruled on the same day that the Trump administration misconstrued immigration law\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Kyle Cheney of Politico has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/30\/ninth-circuit-ice-detention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this updated report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cBonus 241: The Mail-In Voting Applications; What the Supreme Court was asked to do on Monday is narrower than much of the coverage suggests, and a grant of relief would be far less significant than it will outwardly appear to be.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Steve Vladeck has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevevladeck.com\/p\/bonus-241-the-mail-in-voting-applications\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>\u00a0at his \u201cOne First\u201d Substack site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cTrump Says He Wants Supreme Court to Revive Suit Against Hillary Clinton\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0Greg Stohr and Erik Larson of Bloomberg News have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-29\/trump-says-he-wants-supreme-court-to-revive-suit-against-clinton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/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. \u201cU.S. Revives Obscure Court in Bid to Deport Afghan Woman; The case is a test of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, where [&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-159057","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\/159057","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=159057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159057\/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=159057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}