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2 Dec 2019, 6:00 am
Last week’s post dove into the controversial story of the West Memphis Three, focusing on how the interrogation of Jesse Misskelley offers a strong tool in the criminal procedure classroom for teaching the Fourteenth Amendment’s voluntariness doctrine. [read post]
1 Nov 2019, 12:00 pm
But, preliminarily, let me say how much I appreciate the chance to return to New England, where my great-grandfather first came after an escape from slavery, service in the United States Navy, and settling in Massachusetts in 1865; where slightly less than one-hundred years later I received my bachelor’s degree a few miles away from here; and where I have made so many good friends over the years including the late Charles Schmidt as well as Matt Bodah, both outstanding labor researchers and… [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 3:00 am
National/Federal ‘C’est Moi’: Mitt Romney admits to running secret Twitter account under the alias ‘Pierre Delecto’ MSN – Allyson Chiu (Washington Post) | Published: 10/21/2019 For years, Pierre Delecto’s presence on Twitter largely went unnoticed. [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 7:12 am
” Kagan also paid her respects to the late Justice John Paul Stevens, who had passed away two days earlier. [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 3:00 am
National/Federal Bernie Sanders Says He Will Slow His Campaign Pace After Heart Attack ENM News – Sydney Ember and Jonathan Martin (New York Times) | Published: 10/8/2019 U.S. [read post]
27 Sep 2019, 3:00 am
In December, Stevens was hired as a policy advisor to Gov. [read post]
20 Sep 2019, 3:00 am
MSN – Matt Stevens (New York Times) | Published: 9/13/2019 Unlike earlier, when Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang paid what he calls “freedom dividends” out of his own pocket to three families, his advisers said the money to provide every American adult with $1,000 a month would be funded by campaign donations, raising questions about whether such a giveaway violates election law. [read post]
17 Sep 2019, 3:00 am
” by Matt Stevens (New York Times) for MSN Ethics Delaware: “Supreme Court Says Judges Are Above Politics. [read post]
13 Sep 2019, 3:00 am
Senate Democrats have recommended Shana Broussard, an attorney and executive assistant to longtime Commissioner Steven Walther, to Trump for nomination. [read post]
12 Sep 2019, 1:02 pm
(Pix Credit Here: Carnival Cruises Faces More Lawsuits over Cuba Trips)It has been only several months since the Trump Administration announced that it would no longer suspend the U.S. law provisions that allow lawsuits in U.S. courts against foreign companies in Cuba that use properties confiscated from Cuban Americans and other U.S. citizens after 1959 (discussed here: The Pivot Toward the Caribbean: Announcement of Permission to Sue Anyone Using American Property Confiscated by Cuba and the… [read post]
6 Sep 2019, 3:00 am
Top Interior Official Who Pushed to Expand Drilling in Alaska to Join Oil Company There MSN – Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson (Washington Post) | Published: 9/3/2019 Joe Balash, who oversaw oil and gas drilling on federal lands before resigning from the Interior Department recently, is joining a foreign oil company that is expanding operations on Alaska’s North Slope. [read post]
5 Sep 2019, 3:00 am
Campaign Finance California: “California Democrat Halts Fundraising Amid Scrutiny into Donations from Industry He Regulates” by Hannah Wiley for Sacramento Bee New Mexico: “Residents to Weigh in on Democracy Dollars Proposal This Fall” by Jessica Dyer for Albuquerque Journal Rhode Island: “A Small Campaign with a Six-Figure Problem” by Edward Fitzpatrick for Boston Globe Washington: “Some Corporate Donors Turn Away from Washington Rep. [read post]
3 Sep 2019, 9:01 pm
Some small states (such as Delaware and Rhode Island) typically vote Democratic in presidential elections, and the parties’ platforms tend to evolve over time to compete for various slices of the electorate. [read post]
23 Aug 2019, 3:00 am
In recent weeks, however, the Census Bureau’s director, Steven Dillingham, has not been able to provide a clear answer as to whether citizenship will be factored into apportionment after the 2020 census. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 3:00 am
National/Federal Ex-McConnell Staffers Lobbied on Russian-Backed Kentucky Project Politico – Natasha Bertrand and Theodoric Meyer | Published: 7/31/2019 Two former top staffers to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have lobbied Congress and the Treasury Department on the development of a new Kentucky aluminum mill backed by the Russian aluminum giant Rusal, according to a new lobbying disclosure. [read post]
22 Jun 2019, 6:54 pm
I came across this case (the plaintiff's lawyer, by the way, is a Rhode Island state legislator), and then saw that the ACLU of Rhode Island has a good summary of it already: In a case raising important First Amendment issues for the Internet age, the ACLU of Rhode Island has taken on the defense of a Massachusetts blogger who was ordered by a Rhode Island Superior Court judge to "immediately remove" from his website "any and all posts,… [read post]
7 Jun 2019, 7:00 am
Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction (University of Chicago Press, 2019).There is much that could be said about the contribution of my friend Steven Calabresi to our symposium. [read post]
13 May 2019, 6:00 am
Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction (University of Chicago Press, 2019).Steven G. [read post]
31 Oct 2018, 3:01 am
Steven Wise’s Nonhuman Rights Project Seeks Habeas Corpus For An Elephant” [Ted Folkman, Letters Blogatory, Wise’s previous go and generally] Regulatory battles between hotel industry and AirBnB spread across U.S. [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 9:58 am
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo (D) and Speaker Nicholas Mattiello (D) for championing reforms which make the state less of an outlier in state taxation. [read post]
