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18 Mar 2024, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
The closer the trial moves to the November election, the easier it becomes for Trump and all of his co-defendants to find at least one juror to resist voting to convict on the ground that the case is politically motivated.In any event, as Judge McAfee acknowledges in his opinion, no improper incentive Willis had to drag the case out to funnel money to Wade influenced Willis. [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 2:27 am by Edgar (aka MrConsumer)
Apparently in 2014, Congress decided to no longer allow political parties to use taxpayer money from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund to finance their party conventions. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 9:05 pm by Lisa Heinzerling
Congress’s power to ensure a degree of political independence for some agencies. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 7:45 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Accuracy increases with political sophistication. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 7:17 pm by Amy Howe
In this case, the NRA emphasizes, Vullo went beyond simply expressing her opinion about guns and instead both threatened companies that did not comply with her “political blacklist” and offered “inducements to those who did. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 6:46 pm by Howard Bashman
“The Priorities of the Judicial Conference of the United States; Rather than addressing bankruptcy and patent forum and judge shopping, on which there is a large bipartisan consensus, the Judicial Conference rushed through a botched proposal in response to political pressure and Twitter noise”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 6:07 pm by Josh Blackman
Indeed, this approach to careerism is the only way to navigate oneself through the political process to a lifetime appointment. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 3:52 pm by Tom Smith
via www.wsj.com California has a statute that makes it illegal to fire somebody for their political activity outside of work. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 1:05 pm by Ilya Somin
(NA)At the Econlib site, political philosophy graduate student and UnPopulist editor Akiva Malamet has two insightful new pieces on the economics and politics of Star Trek. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 12:01 pm by Ilya Somin
Political conflict between Irish-Americans and WASPs has almost completely disappeared…. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 10:34 am by Dennis Crouch
Judge James Ho of the Fifth Circuit has also publicly questioned the politics behind and the enforceability of the policy. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 9:42 am by Tom Smith
Facing legal and political blowback, the Biden administration has largely abandoned moves that might be construed as stifling political speech.While little noticed by most Americans, the effort has helped cut a path for Mr. [read post]
The United Nations Human Rights Committee in its Concluding observations on the third periodic report of Hong Kong, China suggested that certain terms in the ordinance, including “unlawful assembly”—also an element for the offence of riot—may facilitate excessive restriction of the rights protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 9:32 am by Tom Smith
In considering a far-right group, Carney noted that the Justice Department has had sharply different approaches based on the political views of the defendants. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 9:22 am by Tom Smith
The dynamics have led political observers on both sides of the aisle to ask: Should Trump and Biden step aside, or be pushed away? [read post]
Bolsonaro refrained from delving into the specifics of the ongoing investigations against him, asserting instead that he was a victim of “persecution” by the political left in the country. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 8:01 am
Facing legal and political blowback, the Biden administration has largely abandoned moves that might be construed as stifling political speech.... [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 8:00 am by Gene Takagi
… The election comes against the backdrop of a ruthless crackdown that has crippled independent media and prominent rights groups and given Putin full control of the political system. [read post]