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18 Jan 2020, 7:16 am
But over the years, many different "experts" have played that role, and he's not the only one overstating the "future dangerousness" of capital defendants while understating TDCJ's ability to manage them.At The American Scholar, Lincoln Caplan described the sentencing-phase testimony against Billy Joe Wardlow, who is scheduled for execution for capital murder on April 29th. [read post]
7 Jan 2013, 6:21 am
Finally, in an editorial for The New York Times, Lincoln Caplan addresses Wednesday’s argument in Missouri v. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 7:38 am
At the Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr argues that Lincoln Caplan’s discussion of Justice Breyer’s new book for the New York Times (to which James linked in yesterday’s round-up) wrongly assumes that “a Justice’s deference to federal laws reflects that Justice’s deference to legislative acts more broadly. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 7:41 am
In an op-ed for the New York Times, Lincoln Caplan discusses the Justice’s tenure and jurisprudence, as do John Yoo for Wall Street Journal, Juan Williams for FOX, and Ian Millhiser for ThinkProgress. [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 2:19 pm
As Lincoln Caplan at the New York Times editorialized this weekend, the study shows that the process for determining who lives and who dies in Connecticut, like those in other death-penalty states, is “utterly arbitrary and discriminatory. [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 4:58 am
” In Harvard Magazine, Lincoln Caplan discusses a recent book on the Supreme Court and the death penalty, whose authors “explain why, for the most pragmatic of reasons, the Court should end capital punishment in the United States,” and provide an “account of what the country should never forget about the racial pathologies of the death penalty that provide an indelible moral basis for abolishing it, as well. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 3:20 pm
As Lincoln Caplan at the New York Times editorialized this weekend, the study shows that the process for determining who lives and who dies in Connecticut, like those in other death-penalty states, is “utterly arbitrary and discriminatory. [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 1:25 pm
Now comes the latest entry, Lincoln Caplan’s “The Political Supreme Court. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 4:00 am
In the New Yorker, Lincoln Caplan looks at the role of the Chief Justice, this Term’s major decisions, and the Court more broadly, while Kenneth Jost has an overview of the Term at Jost on Justice and Bill Blum has five “takeaways” from the Term at truthdig. [read post]
17 Jun 2018, 4:58 pm
Writing in the June 21, 2015 edition of the New Yorker Magazine, Lincoln Caplan said AEDPA effectively “gutted the federal writ of habeas corpus” because even if a state court misapplies the Constitution, a state prisoner (most of whom are African Americans) cannot secure relief in federal court unless he or she can show that the state court decision is “contrary to … clearly established federal law” or that the decision was an… [read post]
4 Feb 2024, 10:00 pm
In this video, Yale Law Professor Lincoln Caplan says that most of the major corporations stay out of court if at all possible, and prefer to settle out of court: https://www.youtube.com/watch? [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 8:30 am
Considerations such as these help explain why such Republican icons as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Ronald Reagan took a very different view of immigration than most of today’s GOP. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 6:55 am
” And in an editorial for the New York Times, Lincoln Caplan makes the argument that, “[i]n a world where multinational corporations are primary actors, the need for a way to hold them accountable for extreme abuses is more urgent than ever. . . . [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 11:51 am
Lincoln Caplan, one of the board’s legal writers, explains below: Mr. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 3:16 am
” In The New Yorker, Lincoln Caplan remarks that “when it comes to the death penalty,” “the U.S. has ended up in some rough company,” ranking “with countries that conspicuously are not in full compliance with their international obligations”; he notes that in “the past generation, the number of countries that have stopp[ed] using the death penalty has doubled, from about fifty to about a hundred,” and that if the Supreme Court… [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 5:51 am
In The New Yorker, Lincoln Caplan urges the Court to take on the case of Texas death-row inmate Duane Buck, “to maintain public confidence that courts will not permit an execution tainted by ‘expert’ testimony explicitly linking race to dangerousness. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 7:32 am
Lincoln Caplan, in an editorial for The New York Times, reports on the waning legacy of Gideon v. [read post]
5 May 2015, 3:45 am
” In The American Prospect, Lincoln Caplan profiles Justice Elena Kagan, describing her as “already expanding the role of Court opinions and, in doing that, of a Supreme Court justice. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 4:25 am
” In Supreme Court Brief (subscription required), Tony Mauro interviews Lincoln Caplan, the author of a recent book about the court, who maintains that “Justices, by and large, reflect the liberal or conservative inclinations that presidents expect them to have when picking them, because their track record in the law and their professional experience reflect their ‘priors’—the attitudes, beliefs, dispositions, impulses, and so on that they bring to a… [read post]
17 Aug 2018, 4:11 am
” For Harvard Magazine, Lincoln Caplan looks at the evolving role of the solicitor general, who “remains, by a wide margin, the most frequent and influential advocate before the Supreme Court. [read post]
