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19 Oct 2011, 7:09 am by lawmrh
Wachtler ultimately became more well-known for personally corroborating the axiom’s power when he was later indicted for threats against a former lover and her daughter. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 1:32 pm by ernst
Her forty years on the bench included cases of constitutional law, administrative power, criminal process, labor rights, and patent cases. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 8:15 pm
John Yoo takes up the history of presidential power in two new SSRN papers on Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, finding in their presidencies support for broad executive power. [read post]
23 Feb 2019, 3:51 pm by Marty Lederman
  To be sure, such a person might also have been aware that states at the time exercised the lawful power to do just that—i.e., to assess penalties for defamatory speech of public figures, sometimes even when the speech was truthful. [read post]
17 Apr 2023, 5:37 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The penalty is $71,316 per omission.1 POGO is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing. [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 4:28 pm
"The Power Broker: In an exclusive interview, Justice Kennedy discusses life, center stage. [read post]
12 May 2013, 1:00 pm by Kenneth Anderson
 Moreover, the very distinction between “power” and “authority” depends upon the internal and psychological predicates of legitimacy; mere power becomes authority because power is accepted, internalized, habitualized, and normalized as being “legitimate” and obedience to it accepted as “right. [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 9:35 am by Schachtman
In Part One of “Power in Courts,” I addressed the misplaced emphasis the Avandia MDL court put upon the concept of statistical power. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 6:34 am
Although he himself did not make the point, Thomas also could have been understood to be complaining about a double standard under which powerful white men in Washington---including some of the very Senators voting on his appointment---routinely engaged in sexual harassment without suffering any consequences.The double-standard issue arose in the Isiah Thomas case as well, but with a twist. [read post]
25 Jun 2021, 5:32 pm by Howard Bashman
“The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Issued a Decision Too Extreme for Clarence Thomas; In a sweeping 5–4 decision, the court stripped Congress of its power to create new rights”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. [read post]
11 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Thomas, University of Akron School of Law, has posted Misappropriating Women's History in the Law and Politics of Abortion. [read post]
27 Jun 2023, 5:42 pm by Rick Hasen
In today’s Moore decision, Justices Thomas and Gorsuch rejected the majority approach to the independent state legislature theory, believing instead that state legislatures have almost plenary power and cannot be limited even by state courts applying state constitutions. [read post]
12 Sep 2023, 12:39 pm by Geoff Schweller
”  “There are substantial arguments that the qui tam device is inconsistent with Article II and that private relators may not represent the interests of the United States in litigation,” stated Thomas suggesting that qui tam suits violate Article II of the Constitution which vests the power to litigate on behalf of the government to the executive branch. [read post]