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11 May 2021, 9:01 pm
Last week, the Facebook Oversight Board delivered a mixed verdict regarding the company’s treatment of former President Donald Trump’s account. [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
Last week, Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first person in the United States to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia—in which a mask attached to Smith’s face poured pure nitrogen into his lungs, thus depriving him of oxygen. [read post]
25 May 2021, 9:01 pm
Last week, the Supreme Court announced that it would review a decision by the U.S. [read post]
9 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm
Two recent Supreme Court rulings that were handed down barely one month apart address the same, important topic: Under what circumstances may federal district courts insist on proof of matters that go to the merits of the case as a precondition for allowing the plaintiffs to proceed via a class action, rather than through a series of individual lawsuits? [read post]
30 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm
In the aftermath of last year’s defeat at the polls, Donald Trump had difficulty finding reputable and competent lawyers to assist him in attempting to persuade the public, judges, and other government officials of his Big Lie—that he was the rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election. [read post]
11 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm
The president, who cannot resist sticking his foot in his mouth, was at it again last week when he attacked and insulted April Ryan, Abby Phillip, and Yamiche Alcindor, three respected journalists who also happen to be strong, smart, independent black women. [read post]
28 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
After a week in which Republican Senate Judiciary Committee members Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, and others played to their QAnon-conspiracy-theory-believing base by outrageously insinuating that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has a soft spot in her heart for pedophiles, it was almost refreshing to hear Ben Sasse announce that he would vote against her confirmation to a seat on the Supreme Court because of a disagreement over judicial philosophy. [read post]
4 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm
And as others have pointed out, the insanity defense has ancient roots and has been almost universally adopted in the United States.With these various acknowledgements of insanity as a Constitution-relevant phenomenon, the precedents might appear to support its availability as a defense in criminal cases. [read post]
12 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
Some people might bring an equal protection lawsuit against a public university for preferentially selecting white applicants over minority applicants. [read post]
11 Aug 2020, 9:01 pm
Within the context of education, to believe a woman’s accusation against some college or graduate student in a universe of highly infrequent misconduct is to invite the likely conviction (or its equivalent) of an innocent man. [read post]
9 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
Amy Wax, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, recently weighed in on the Kavanaugh/Ford hearings as a guest on the Glenn Loury program. [read post]
12 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm
On Tuesday, April 7, Wisconsin held a primary election despite the fact that state residents were under an order of the governor to stay home in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. [read post]
21 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm
Last week the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). [read post]
3 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm
On Wednesday, January 6, Congress will meet in joint session to confirm Joe Biden’s election as President, effective upon his inauguration two weeks later. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
According to an indictment that was unsealed in federal district court in Manhattan last week, New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez solicited and accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using his influence as ranking minority member and later chair of the Foreign Relations Committee to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Egypt, while also leaning on state prosecutors to drop a case against one of his patrons. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm
On New Year’s Eve, Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted a temporary injunction against the enforcement of the contraceptive coverage requirements of the regulations implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare). [read post]
3 Sep 2019, 9:01 pm
The Democratic candidate has won the national popular vote in four of the last five presidential elections, yet the Republican candidate took office after three of those five elections. [read post]
5 Dec 2023, 9:01 pm
Last week the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) v. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm
On Monday, in Ramos v. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm
Given everything I knew about her and her presentation style, the only reason I could imagine for the universal rejection of this outstanding young law student was that she was, as people within the fat acceptance movement like to say, fat. [read post]
