Happy Wednesday! Welcome to Supreme Court Brief. I’m Brad Kutner. The high court heard Turkish-backed Halkbank’s effort to get immunity from criminal prosecution for alleged financial crimes Tuesday morning, I’ve got coverage of oral arguments. We also got a short list of orders Tuesday; we looked at the newsworthy bits including the high court’s refusal to take a challenge to COVID-era funding’s “offset provision,“ which blocked Missouri from doling out the funds as a tax cut. And finally 250 law professors say SCOTUS’s conservative majority has gone “off the rails” and in need of court reform … or at least an enforceable code of ethics.
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Lisa Blatt, partner with Williams & Connolly. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
