…Crow paid years’ worth of private school tuition for Thomas’ grandnephew, Mark Martin, of whom Thomas had legal custody and whom Thomas was, as he put it, “raising as a son.” Thomas…

…made these points originally in an AB post in late June, a few days before Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey Sutton, a highly-regarded conservative Reagan appointee prominent Federalist…

by Beverly Mann crossposted with The Annarborist GINNI THOMAS v. CLARENCE THOMAS “The Supreme Court, issuing its first orders accepting cases for the new Term, on Tuesday edged toward analysis…

…Sometimes an intuition is just an intuition. —Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey Sutton, in Thomas More Law Center v. Obama, June 29 Not to pat myself on the…

…a majority opinion of a three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, the appeals court for Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennesee, in late June, written by conservative…

…by state courts, or must accommodate the state court—or, as the Supreme Court phrases it, accord the state court “comity”—by “abstaining” from these cases even if those courts do have…

…of the Constitution. What would they do in 1776? ~~~~~~~~ The rightwing justices on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals signal they will support repeal of ACA’s mandate to cover…

…Orleans-based Court of Appeals For The Fifth Circuit. In an earlier ruling, the appellate court ruled the CFPB’s drawing money from the Federal Reserve every year instead of getting annual…

…the Court of Appeals “by failing to provide any factual findings or indeed any reasoning of its own the Court of Appeals left this Court in the position of evaluating…

…Court’s 2012 ruling upholding most of the ACA as constitutional, the Court did strike down as unconstitutionally coercive to state legislatures the part of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion that provided…