{"id":166931,"date":"2026-11-06T15:26:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/06\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-19\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:26:03","slug":"how-appealing-weekly-roundup-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/06\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-19\/","title":{"rendered":"How Appealing Weekly Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/GettyImages-509557490-620x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong><u>Ed. note<\/u><\/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>\u201cTrump Lawyer Urges Appeals Court to Toss Hush-Money Case\u201d:<\/strong> Patricia Hurtado and David Voreacos of Bloomberg News have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-11-05\/trump-finally-heads-to-court-to-overturn-hush-money-conviction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cAlito and Thomas Can\u2019t Retire Now; Such a nakedly political move would undercut any effort to preserve the high court\u2019s independence\u201d:<\/strong> Columnist James Taranto has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/alito-and-thomas-cant-retire-now-36ba93ff?st=SfKvms&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this essay<\/a> online at The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cThe looming constitutional showdowns \u2014 Investigations, the electoral college, the Supreme Court and pardons: The GOP collapse brings new volatility.\u201d<\/strong> Columnist Jason Willick has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2026\/11\/05\/democrats-house-senate-control-may-mean-constitutional-showdowns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this essay<\/a> online at The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cNewsom commutes all 548 California death sentences in historic move\u201d:<\/strong> Hannah Wiley, Sophia Bollag, and Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/article\/newsom-death-penalty-california-22512509.php?utm_source=marketing&amp;utm_medium=copy-url-link&amp;utm_campaign=article-share&amp;hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL3BvbGl0aWNzL2FydGljbGUvbmV3c29tLWRlYXRoLXBlbmFsdHktY2FsaWZvcm5pYS0yMjUxMjUwOS5waHA%3D&amp;time=MTc5MzkwNzgzNTg4OA%3D%3D&amp;rid=YjUzNTE2YTUtMzRmZS00Y2FiLTliNTgtN2ZjYTlkNDBiYzgw&amp;sharecount=MQ%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cWhy a Merciless Supreme Court Rebuke on Election Eve Matters; The justices took just hours to reject Trump\u2019s bid to meddle in the election\u201d:<\/strong> Adam Liptak has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/05\/us\/politics\/the-docket-supreme-court-election-eve.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OFE.ygfP.AGXH4CmZmU0C&amp;smid=url-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this new installment<\/a> of his \u201cThe Docket\u201d newsletter online at The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/11\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-193\/\" 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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/GettyImages-509557490-620x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong><u>Ed. note<\/u><\/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>\u201cTrump Lawyer Urges Appeals Court to Toss Hush-Money Case\u201d:<\/strong> Patricia Hurtado and David Voreacos of Bloomberg News have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-11-05\/trump-finally-heads-to-court-to-overturn-hush-money-conviction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cAlito and Thomas Can\u2019t Retire Now; Such a nakedly political move would undercut any effort to preserve the high court\u2019s independence\u201d:<\/strong> Columnist James Taranto has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/alito-and-thomas-cant-retire-now-36ba93ff?st=SfKvms&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this essay<\/a> online at The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cThe looming constitutional showdowns \u2014 Investigations, the electoral college, the Supreme Court and pardons: The GOP collapse brings new volatility.\u201d<\/strong> Columnist Jason Willick has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2026\/11\/05\/democrats-house-senate-control-may-mean-constitutional-showdowns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this essay<\/a> online at The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cNewsom commutes all 548 California death sentences in historic move\u201d:<\/strong> Hannah Wiley, Sophia Bollag, and Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/article\/newsom-death-penalty-california-22512509.php?utm_source=marketing&amp;utm_medium=copy-url-link&amp;utm_campaign=article-share&amp;hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL3BvbGl0aWNzL2FydGljbGUvbmV3c29tLWRlYXRoLXBlbmFsdHktY2FsaWZvcm5pYS0yMjUxMjUwOS5waHA%3D&amp;time=MTc5MzkwNzgzNTg4OA%3D%3D&amp;rid=YjUzNTE2YTUtMzRmZS00Y2FiLTliNTgtN2ZjYTlkNDBiYzgw&amp;sharecount=MQ%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cWhy a Merciless Supreme Court Rebuke on Election Eve Matters; The justices took just hours to reject Trump\u2019s bid to meddle in the election\u201d:<\/strong> Adam Liptak has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/05\/us\/politics\/the-docket-supreme-court-election-eve.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OFE.ygfP.AGXH4CmZmU0C&amp;smid=url-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this new installment<\/a> of his \u201cThe Docket\u201d newsletter online at The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/11\/how-appealing-weekly-roundup-193\/\" 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. \u201cTrump Lawyer Urges Appeals Court to Toss Hush-Money Case\u201d: Patricia Hurtado and David Voreacos of Bloomberg News have this report. \u201cAlito and [&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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166931","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=166931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166931\/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=166931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}