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3 Jun 2024, 9:00 pm by Jon May
And when he was prosecuted for bribery, Darrow presented a political defense—that he was being prosecuted because he had stood up for the poor, the oppressed, and labor against a business establishment bent on crushing him.A federal circuit judge recently told me that our system of justice, civil and criminal, cannot work, and certainly cannot work well, unless there is a contest between advocates representing the interests of their clients with zeal. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 8:55 pm by Lawrence Solum
While both regulators and the general public seem increasingly aware of the societal risks accompanying the pervasive use of ecommerce platforms and social media in the context of mental health and political manipulations, the more mundane commercial risks accompanying such use seem less appreciated. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 7:29 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
They flood the platform and unequally distort political debates, but a clear demographic portrait of these users was not available. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 4:10 pm
It's a new and unusual instance of one political party's judicial picks controlling each active seat on a federal appeals court, and the Democratic dominance could prove magnetic for ideologically charged litigation. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 3:46 pm by becassidy
  House Bill 2 delays the deadline for a major political party to certify its presidential and vice presidential candidates to the Secretary of State for the 2024 general election. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 2:53 pm by Kate Reeves
The Hatch Act, passed in 1939, limits the political activity of government workers. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 1:34 pm by Ilya Somin
No law has so radically altered the demographics, economy, politics, and liberty of the United States and the world. [read post]
Though Article 21 of Uganda’s Constitution provides for equality of persons before the law in “all spheres of political, economic, social, and cultural life,” Uganda’s Constitutional Court decided not to strike down the AHA, only revoking parts of it. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 1:23 pm by lennyesq
The court made three major rulings in the decision: (1) saying the right to vote is not an “enumerated political right” under Section 2 of the state’s Bill of Rights, (2) upholding the restriction on the number of advance ballots that can be delivered by one person and (3) reversing a lower court decision that dismissed the false representation claim that the measure was unconstitutional for being overly broad. *** Read more… [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 1:03 pm by Marilyn Wesel
The bill also changes the applicable timeframe for violations to within 90 days before a political party nominating convention or after the start of absentee voting prior to a presidential primary or state or local primary or general election. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 12:27 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
While unions typically strike over pay and benefits, this walkout has been far different because of the intertwining of political issues beyond standard contract matters. [read post]
  A poll released Sunday by ABC News/IPSOS revealed that nearly half of Americans believe the Trump charges were politically motivated. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 11:41 am by Mark Tushnet
Maybe, though, one could read it is raising questions about litigation campaigns no matter what their political valence (though I don’t think such questions are serious). [read post]
The group, comprising nearly 30 top UN independent experts and Special Rapporteurs including Palestinian rights Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, is asking for states to recognize the Palestinian state and to “use all political and diplomatic resources at their disposal to bring about an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. [read post]
The current political party in power, which holds a supermajority in parliament, the People’s National Congress (PNC) is to vote on the issue and ensure that the laws are amended for the ban on the Israeli passport to become effective. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 8:55 am by Lawrence Solum
In addition to regulating, as all law does, political liberalism theorizes the constitution as a procedure for the justification of the use of political power. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 8:12 am by Laura Stefani and Jay Prapaisilp
In a pair of Notices of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture this week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed a collective $8 million in fines against telecommunications company Lingo Telecom and political consultant Steven Kramer. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 7:54 am by Kate Reeves
With elections on the horizon, it served as a reminder to political leaders and anti-corruption practitioners in attendance that protecting whistleblowers is part of protecting constitutional rights and vice versa. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 7:30 am by Neil Siegel
(Oxford University Press.)The Collective-Action Constitution blends law, history, political science, and economics to offer a broad, deep theory of the U.S. [read post]