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3 May 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
When Judges Get Free Trips to Luxury Resorts, Disclosure Is Spotty Texas Public Radio – Tom Dreisbach and Carrie Johnson (NPR) | Published: 5/1/2024 Dozens of federal judges failed to fully disclose free luxury travel to judicial conferences around the world, as required by internal judiciary rules and federal ethics law, an NPR investigation found. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 9:00 am by Josh Blackman
" The Moore Court observed that this clause specifically refers to the broader lawmaking process under the Constitution, which would include the executive and judicial branches. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 5:00 am by Bernard Bell
Many state and local officials host social media sites and use them to converse with followers on matters related to their governmental responsibilities, among other things.[1]  Not surprisingly, many choose to block from their sites certain members of the public they find disagreeable.[2] Being disagreeable, or at least in disagreement with such actions, blocked followers sometimes sue alleging that their exclusion violates the First Amendment.[3]  One of the most notable examples was a… [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 4:27 pm by Eugene Volokh
Unusually for statutes (as opposed to judicially crafted doctrines, such as the Miranda rule), the Logan Act is named after the supposed bad guy: Dr. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Nikki Haley Suspends Her Campaign and Leaves Donald Trump as the Last Major Republican Candidate Associated Press News – Steve Peoples and Meg Kinnard | Published: 3/6/2024 Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination. [read post]
29 Sep 2023, 1:59 am by Shams Hirji
What sounds like judicial modesty to the Majority sounds like judicial abdication to the Dissent — at least where, in the Dissent’s view, “a fundamental right or freedom from discrimination is involved,” which the Dissent believed was the case here. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal How Judges Navigate Offers of Free Lunch, Trips and NBA Tickets Bloomberg Law – Zoe Tillman (Bloomberg News) | Published: 6/25/2023 Recent controversies over perks accepted by Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have raised questions not only about the justices’ conduct off the bench and what they disclose to the public, but also about how the judiciary broadly enforces ethics. [read post]
26 May 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
She returned to the Senate after facing pressure to resign from a few members of Congress and California progressive groups, who complained her months-long absence was slowing judicial confirmations and imperiling the Democratic agenda. [read post]
21 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Dianne Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee fell apart amid Republican opposition, leaving the party still grappling with a dilemma over stalled judicial nominees that has inflamed some in the Democratic base and complicated the race to succeed her in California. [read post]
24 Feb 2023, 5:16 am by Mark A. Graber
Garrett Davis of Kentucky referred to “the portion of the people who choose the officers of the government. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 10:46 am by Bernard Bell
This post assesses the Solicitor General’s argument, in New York v. [read post]
13 Oct 2022, 2:02 pm by Josh Blackman
(See pp. 374-376 of my article Judicial Courage.) [read post]
30 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Top State Judges Make a Rare Plea in a Momentous Supreme Court Election Case DNyuz – Adam Liptak (New York Times) | Published: 9/26/2022 The Conference of Chief Justices, a group representing the top state judicial officers in the nation, filed a brief in the U.S. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 5:01 am by Mark A. Graber
Executive and judicial branch officials in the decade before the Civil War insisted that persons who prevented government officials from implementing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 were “levying war”—that is, committing treason—against the United States. [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 9:01 am by Jonathan Aronie and Ryan Roberts
(See blue states on the map below.)Kentucky Injunction (appeal pending in the 5th Circuit): The Federal Government is enjoined from enforcing FAR 52.223-99 “in all covered contracts in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. [read post]
8 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
It is illegal under federal law for anyone in the executive branch, with a few narrow exceptions, to request the IRS conduct an audit of someone’s taxes. [read post]
13 May 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The Supreme Court is the only court in the country that is not required to abide by a judicial code of ethics. [read post]