Tuesday, September 15, 2026

SCOTUS tidbits

The Wall St. Journal has Gregg Costa's The Emergency Supreme Court Order of Sept. 12, 2001 -- Chief Justice Rehnquist was adamant about not letting terrorists disrupt the judicial routine.

Law.com has John Eastman Appeals Disbarment to U.S. Supreme Court -- Eastman argued in a Supreme Court petition that his disbarment over his attempt to overturn the 2020 election violates the First Amendment. "Eastman, a former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas and graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, was once considered among the country’s foremost conservative constitutional law scholars and served as dean of Chapman University’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law in Orange County, California, from 2007 to 2010. Since 1999, he has served as the founding director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence."

Law360 has UPenn Prof Hires John Eastman For Race Bias Appeal