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7 Jun 2024, 3:00 am
Chief Justice Robert Declines to Meet with Democrats on Court Ethics MSN – Ann Marimow (Washington Post) | Published: 5/30/2024 Chief Justice John Roberts turned down an invitation to meet with Senate Democrats to discuss what the lawmakers called an “ethics crisis” at the Supreme Court following reports of two politically charged flags displayed outside the homes of Justice Samuel Alito. [read post]
30 May 2024, 12:37 pm
But two senators who say that a Supreme Court justice's neutrality might reasonably be questioned under the increasingly shocking set of facts that have recently made national news? [read post]
24 May 2024, 5:51 am
In that sense, contempt represents a remedy that is internal to the investigation escalation process. [read post]
23 May 2024, 9:01 pm
“You look at the rules of the Senate, even the rules of the House,” Trump told Fox News, “but the rule of the Senate and some of the things you have to go through, it’s really a bad thing for the country in my opinion. [read post]
21 May 2024, 9:01 pm
” Levinson was right.On May 15, a group of progressives in the House of Representatives led by Georgia Representative Hank Johnson and advocates for Supreme Court reform, including representatives from Demand Justice and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington announced the creation of a new task force “to advance legislation addressing what they have argued is political activism and ethical malfeasance on the Supreme Court. [read post]
20 May 2024, 9:05 pm
But when the Senate previously considered establishing a Congressional Office of Legal Counsel in the 1970s, one Senator cautioned that such an office’s legal opinions on a proposed statute could become the “authoritative source for interpretation of legislative intent. [read post]
14 May 2024, 10:15 pm
The false alternate slate of electors was a “critical” part of the Trump-John Eastman conspiracy, according to a federal district court opinion issued in June. [read post]
10 May 2024, 9:01 am
” But that was a civil case, and the Fitzgerald opinion itself notes that criminal cases are different. [read post]
10 May 2024, 6:45 am
In that case, the Attorneys General of Ohio and other states, and entities representing oil, gas, and ethanol interests had challenged the waiver authority. [read post]
10 May 2024, 3:00 am
The changes, pushed through by what were then new Republican majorities in the House and Senate, were touted at the time as the strongest ethics laws in the nation. [read post]
2 May 2024, 9:49 am
I never blogged that opinion for two reasons. [read post]
1 May 2024, 5:55 am
House of Representatives also unanimously adopted a resolution declaring the July 1995 atrocities at Srebrenica to constitute genocide. [read post]
30 Apr 2024, 9:00 pm
As Robert Weisberg, law professor and director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, said in 2009 “public opinion has been little affected by previous cases where executions were botched. [read post]
30 Apr 2024, 6:08 am
For similar reasons, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan refused to admit a seemingly damning text message that the Enquirer’s top editor sent to a close relative on Election Day 2016, as Trump inched closer to the White House. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 1:50 pm
House of Representatives, the Senate has passed what Senator Ron Wyden has called, “one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 5:00 am
Speaking through Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the Justices elaborated upon their less constricted version of the “authority or duty” test in a way that provides some guidance to government officials. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 10:20 am
As another sunset of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 authorities looms, the House of Representatives has passed a compromise bill, the “Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act,” H.R. 7888 (RISAA), which the Senate is now considering. [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 4:00 am
As Professor Mark Graber recounts here, President Buchanan was tipped off by Justice Catron about the infamous Dred Scott opinion a few weeks before its scheduled release, and then the President pressured a northern justice to join the opinion along with the Southerners on the Court. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 6:47 am
” “The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held the hearing to get an update on efforts to counter illicit finance, terrorism, and sanctions evasion from the Treasury Department. [read post]
8 Apr 2024, 11:45 am
Pix Credit New York TimesIn a Press Release dated 8 April 2024, the American Law Institute had produced guidance for Insurrection Act Reform.Today, a bipartisan group led by Bob Bauer (NYU School of Law and former White House Counsel to President Obama) and Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law School and former Assistant Attorney General in the George W. [read post]
