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26 Apr 2024, 3:45 am by jonathanturley
If the court were to embrace special counsel Jack Smith’s arguments, a president would have no immunity from criminal charges, even for official acts taken in his presidency. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Chief Justice John Roberts was among at least five members of the court who did not appear to embrace the claim of absolute immunity that would stop special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Trump on charges he conspired to overturn his 2020 election loss. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 2:35 pm by Amy Howe
Michael Dreeben, a lawyer from Smith’s office, represented the United States. [read post]
23 Apr 2024, 11:53 am by Steven Calabresi
Attorneys was well stated by Attorney General Robert Jackson in a speech entitle "The Federal Prosecutor". [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]
21 Apr 2024, 2:25 pm by Steven Calabresi
 Gene Schaerr filed the amicus brief, which grows out of a law review article that Gary Lawson and I published: Why Robert Mueller's Appointment as Special Counsel was Unlawful, 95 Notre Dame. [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
DNC Uses Political Donations to Pay Biden’s Legal Fees in Special Counsel Probe MSN – Soo Rin Kim, Isabelle Murray, and Lucien Bruggeman (ABC News) | Published: 4/13/2024 The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has been paying President Biden’s legal fees incurred in connection with special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into his handling of classified documents. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 4:23 pm by INFORRM
By contrast with this unsavoury episode, only ten months ago, in June 2023, Australians saw journalism at the opposite end of the ethical spectrum when The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times proved the substantial truth of the imputation that Ben Roberts-Smith was a war criminal. [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 7:05 am by Norman L. Eisen
Robert Costello—Costello is “Lawyer C” in the statement of facts. [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 1:34 pm by Amy Howe
Chief Justice John Roberts, however, read the statute differently. [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 12:55 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
Members of the Los Angeles Police Commission, from left, Richard Tefank, Robert Saltzman, Steve Soboroff and Matthew Johnson during a meeting in 2016. [read post]
9 Apr 2024, 2:41 pm by vforberger
See Noam Scheiber, How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons (2 Apr. 2017) (describing Uber’s use of “psychological inducements and other techniques unearthed by social science to influence when, where and how long drivers work”), Sarah Mason, High Score, Low Pay: Why the Gig Economy Loves Gamification (20 Nov. 2018) (detailing the “gamification” techniques and algorithms used by Uber and Lyft to manage their drivers), Alex Rosenblat, When… [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 9:05 pm by renholding
As Adam Smith recognized in The Theory of the Moral Sentiments, business as an institution depends on certain basic moral principles and understandings.[15] Even in his more famous and influential The Wealth of Nations,[16] Smith recognized that promoting excessively “high profits” for capitalists could undermine the economic wealth and moral well-being of a nation as a whole.[17] In my article, I draw also on the contemporary social philosopher Axel Honneth, who… [read post]