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NY appeals court denies Trump request to pause Bragg case, after judge moves sentencing until after …A New York appeals court on Thursday denied former President Trump’s request to pause his criminal case stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals said in a filing that Trump’s motion for an emergency administrative stay in New York v. Trump is denied, following Judge Juan Merchan’s decision to delay the former president’s sentencing until after the presidential election. TRUMP REACTS TO SENTENCING DELAY IN BRAGG CASE, SAYS CASE ‘SHOULD BE DEAD’Trump’s sentencing was set for Sept. 18, but Merchan granted the former president’s request to move that date until late November — Nov. 26. This week, Trump’s attorneys, in a letter to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, asked for the case to be paused, arguing that there was not enough time between the court’s Nov. 12th presidential immunity…

New Essay: Coping With a Court One Disagrees WithRandy Barnett and I have written a new essay, titled Coping With a Court One Disagrees With. This essay was inspired, in part, by a recent New York Times article that identified a “crisis” in teaching constitutional law. In our view, there is no crisis. But we can relate with professors who are having difficulty teaching decisions they disagree with. We’ve done it for the entirety of our careers. We suggests that our method of teaching may be useful for liberal and progressive professors who are having trouble coping with the current court. Here is the abstract: Is there a “crisis” in teaching constitutional law? In our view, there is not. Still, we can empathize. As libertarian-conservative-ish law professors, for years we taught Supreme Court decisions that we disagreed with. We teach constitutional law as a historical narrative that began at the founding…

Georgia court dismisses two more charges against TrumpThe court says state does not have authority to bring charges related to alleged filing of false documents in federal court. …[TheTopNews] Read More.BBC NEWS – United States & Canada | U.S. National NewsThu, September 12, 20244 hours ago

The Supreme Court’s Effort to Save Trump Is Already WorkingJust months ago, it seemed conceivable that Donald Trump might spend the final stretch of the presidential campaign in a Washington, D.C., courtroom, on trial for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Even a week ago, it was possible that voters might head to the polls on Election Day with Trump’s sentencing in the New York hush-money case, then scheduled for September 18, fresh in their mind. But on Friday, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan pushed the sentencing date back until the end of November—meaning that Trump will go into the election as a convicted felon, but one whose punishment has not yet been decided. And in Washington, Judge Tanya Chutkan has set out a schedule revealing that the January 6 case will not be going to trial anytime soon.For this, Americans can blame the…

The Debate Underscored Candidates’ Differences on Energy and ClimateThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A month ago, it seemed unlikely that Vice President Kamala Harris would ever reach a goal she set out to achieve as a presidential hopeful in 2019. But at 9 p.m. on Tuesday night at the National Constitutional Center in Philadelphia—five-odd years after she dropped out of her first presidential race—Harris finally faced off against Donald Trump in what will likely be the only debate between the two candidates before Election Day. Harris and Trump are diametrically opposed to each other on issues ranging from national security to the economy to foreign policy, but perhaps nowhere are the candidates more at odds than on the matter of climate change: One thinks rising temperatures pose an existential threat, the other thinks climate science is nonsense.  That gulf in views was put on…

Glenn Greenwald: Why Did Brazil Ban X?Why is the Brazilian government afraid of X? Judge Alexandre de Moraes has blocked the site formerly known as Twitter in Brazil, where an estimated 40 million people access the site each month. Circumventing the ban on X with a VPN could get you fined about $9,000 a day, around the average per capita income in Brazil. It happened after Musk reinstated accounts that the Brazilian state had accused of being part of “digital militias” undermining Brazil’s democracy. X’s owner Elon Musk has accused the judge of “repeatedly and brazenly” betraying Brazil’s constitution, called for his impeachment, and described him as “Brazil’s Darth Vader.” The judge has accused Musk of “criminal instrumentalization” of the X platform and frozen the assets of Musk’s satellite internet company Starlink in the country. Joining us today from Brazil to talk about all this, and the intensifying global crackdown…