Tony Mauro of the Legal Times has this article on the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s recently released FBI file, which reveals new information on his confirmation battles and painkiller dependence. Listen to NPR’s Nina Totenberg discuss the FBI files released under a Freedom of Information Act request here.
Peter Lattman of the WSJ Law Blog reports here that Harriet Miers has resigned as White House counsel. AP writer Deb Riechmann has this article on her resignation.
A draft of the chapter, “First Amendment Limits on Regulating Judicial Campaigns,†written by Rick Hasen of the Election Law Blog for a forthcoming book, has been posted by the Social Science Research Network here.
In addition, this article in the Jurist by Alison Nathan discusses the impact of President Ford’s appointment of Justice John Paul Stevens. The letter written by Ford to the Dean of the Fordham University School of Law cited in this article can be found here.
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