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28 Jun 2017, 1:11 pm by Kent Scheidegger
Kent Scheidegger is the legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation. [read post]
26 Jun 2017, 4:09 am by Edith Roberts
Kent Scheidegger looks at the decision at Crime and Consequences. [read post]
23 Jun 2017, 4:25 am by Edith Roberts
At Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger notes that the “theme out of the United States Supreme Court [yesterday was] materiality. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 4:20 am by Edith Roberts
’” At Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger considers Monday’s decision in Ziglar v. [read post]
5 Jun 2017, 3:26 pm by CJLF Staff
"  Not so, said CJLF Legal Director Kent Scheidegger, who told the reporter that the measure would actually relieve the Supreme Court of part of its capital workload by having initial hearings in the trial courts, where frivolous claims could be flushed out. [read post]
30 May 2017, 3:35 am by Edith Roberts
At Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger comments on the execution last week of Alabama death-row inmate Thomas Arthur, who had “filed a last-minute petition in the U.S. [read post]
16 May 2017, 3:45 am by Edith Roberts
” At Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger surveys the criminal cases awaiting decision at the court. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 4:17 am by Edith Roberts
” Briefly: At Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger discusses Monday’s argument in McWilliams v. [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 9:58 pm by Bill Otis
 Due in great part to the work of CJLF and Kent Scheidegger in particular, six months ago the voters in very blue California rejected a referendum to abolish the death penalty. [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 4:03 am by Edith Roberts
At Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger takes issue with the dissents from the decision to deny the stay by Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor here and here, respectively. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 10:44 am by CJLF Staff
  Media Bias Against the Death Penalty:  Sacramento Bee editorialist Foon Rhee penned this column on the death penalty in California after communicating with CJLF Legal Director Kent Scheidegger yesterday. [read post]
7 Apr 2017, 2:17 pm by Andrew Hamm
Additional early commentary comes from Ross Barkan for The Guardian, Jonathan Adler for The Volokh Conspiracy at The Washington Post, Rick Hasen for his Election Law Blog, Ilya Shapiro and Roger Pilon for Cato at Liberty, Ramesh Ponnuru for National Review, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern for Slate, Kent Scheidegger for his Crime and Consequences blog, Ian Millhiser with two posts for Think Progress, Andrew Prokop for Vox, Charles Pierce for Esquire, Ivan Eland for The… [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 5:03 am by Edith Roberts
Commentary comes from Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences, who argues that the critical question in the case “was whether private organizations with pro-defendant agendas … have the power to amend the Eighth Amendment so that states must follow their latest pronouncements, rather than their previous pronouncements, in deciding who qualifies for the no-matter-what exemption,” and that on “this essential point the Court hands us a bowl of… [read post]
27 Mar 2017, 4:18 am by Edith Roberts
Commentary comes from William Marshall at ACS Blog, Mark Kende at ACS Blog, Ken Jost at Jost on Justice, Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences, Allen Ides in The Sacramento Bee, Amy Vitale in an op-ed at The Hill, Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker, the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times, Stephen Henderson in the Detroit Free Press, William Astore in The Huffington Post, Tony May in an op-ed for Penn Live, Philip Martin in an op-ed at ArkansasOnline, Paul Rosenberg at… [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 11:06 am by CJLF Staff
Federal Judicial Appointments:  While partisan battles swirl around the President's nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, as noted by Kent Scheidegger in a recent post, appointments to federal district courts and courts of appeal are also of great importance. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 4:40 am by Edith Roberts
” Commentary on the appointment comes from Christina Cauterucci at Slate’s XX Factor blog, who looks at what Gorsuch’s nomination means for women, arguing that as “far as the health, safety, and civil rights of America’s women are concerned, it’s hard to imagine how the court could do worse”; Ilya Shapiro at the Cato Institute’s Cato at Liberty blog, who maintains that “Donald Trump has managed to pick a nominee who should please everyone other… [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 4:21 am by Edith Roberts
At Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger looks at the four criminal cases among the new grants. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 4:27 am by Edith Roberts
” Commentary comes from Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences, who maintains that “any genuine originalist will swiftly be declared ‘out of the mainstream’ by Senator Schumer, the New York Times, and the usual suspects. [read post]
12 Dec 2016, 4:14 am by Edith Roberts
At Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger argues that Smith’s case “was not a clean” one in which to decide whether “the jury and not the judge” must “make the additional findings that state law requires before a ‘death-eligible’ defendant is actually sentenced to death,” “although the U.S. [read post]