- The latest newsletter of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Watergate.
- Matthew Waxman, Columbia Law School, on "Remembering the Selective Draft Law Cases" (Lawfare).
- The Federal Judicial Center's History Office recaps its work in 2021 in this thread.
- The Northwestern University professors Michael Allen, Kevin Boyle, Kate Masur, and Alvin B. Tillery Jr. on January 6.
- "Twelve Tables Press announces ... its newest publication, American Lawyer: Twelve Attorneys Who Have Transformed the United States, written by attorney and Arizona State University Professor Gary L. Stuart." More.
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Leon Fink (drawing upon Steven F. Lawson) on how Progressive-era reformers looked beyond court-packing for reforms of the Supreme Court. (See also William Ross's A Muted Fury. )
- Which reminds us: Chief Justice Roberts's recent invocation of William Howard Taft and federal judicial administration has elicited comment by Steven Lubet, Northwestern Law, on NBCNews and Matt Ford in the New Republic.
- ICYMI: A pardon for Homer Plessy (MSNBC; Time). “A tentative agreement to transfer ownership of [Richmond's] now mostly removed Confederate monuments to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia” (Virginia Lawyers Weekly). "90 years on: Remembering the Scottsboro Boys" (Alabama Political Reporter).
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