Monday round-up

Briefly:

• At The Hollywood Reporter (via How Appealing), Eriq Gardner reports that “[t]he Federal Communications Commission, backed by Donald Trump appointees at the Department of Justice, is asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on what’s become a rather lengthy fight over media ownership rules,” arguing that “the Third Circuit has overstepped itself by turning a review of rules meant to ensure healthy competition of viewpoints into a test of what best promotes diversity.”
• Ephrat Livni writes at Quartz that the court’s ruling this term in cases involving President Donald Trump’s efforts to shield his financial records from subpoenas issued to his accountant and lenders by a New York grand jury and three congressional committees “could potentially clarify the extent to which Trump will personally benefit from the costly tax clauses in the [coronavirus relief program known as the ] CARES Act.”
• In an op-ed at the Mississippi Business Journal, Ben Williams writes that with the court’s decision in Kahler v. Kansas, which held that the due process clause does not require Kansas to adopt an insanity test that turns on a defendant’s ability to recognize that his crime was morally wrong, “[r]eaders longing for a Supreme Court that rights all perceived wrongs suffer another setback.”

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