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fromSlate Magazine
9 hours agoThe Supreme Court Has a Chance to Revolutionize Its Approach to the Law
Supreme Court rulings on Reconstruction Amendments will significantly impact voting rights and protections for marginalized groups, particularly Black Americans and transgender individuals.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
7 months agoAmy Coney Barrett discusses possibility of Supreme Court overturning marriage equality - LGBTQ Nation
Amy Coney Barrett downplayed concerns about the Supreme Court overturning Obergefell v. Hodges, emphasizing the court's role in reflecting the American people's values.
US politics
fromSlate Magazine
5 days agoOne Justice Just Took Surprise Aim at Brett Kavanaugh. There May Be a Bigger Strategy at Play.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticizes Justice Kavanaugh's support for race-based detentions, highlighting his lack of understanding of the impact on affected individuals.
fromBig Think
1 month agoHow the U.S. Constitution protects liberty from the powerful's dark impulses
The real Führer is always a judge. Out of Führerdom flows judgeship. One who wants to separate the two from each other or puts them in opposition to each other would have the judge be either the leader of the opposition or the tool of the opposition and is trying to unhinge the state with the help of the judiciary.
History
fromemptywheel
1 month agoMixing The Mixed Constitution - emptywheel
Burke's was a broadside that not only excoriated the social upheavals effected by the French revolutionaries and (by extension) commended by Marx, but the continual economic and social instability prized by modern liberal economic philosophy and practice. Against a new class of elites-mainly, an alliance between ideological progressive theorists and a rising financial oligarchy-Burke urged protection of the stability, tradition, and social continuities vital for the flourishing of ordinary people.
Left-wing politics
fromABA Journal
3 weeks agoFederal judges speak out about threats becoming 'ordinary'
"What's most problematic is that the extraordinary has become ordinary. It's just a matter of course now that when you issue an opinion that some people don't like, you're going to get threats, you're going to get death threats, and that is obviously problematic on many levels."
Law
US politics
fromSlate Magazine
4 weeks agoThe Supreme Court Just Heeded One of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Sharpest Dissents
The Supreme Court unanimously refused to immediately revoke Temporary Protected Status for over 350,000 immigrants from Haiti and Syria, instead allowing full judicial review while maintaining their legal protections.
US politics
fromAbove the Law
4 weeks agoMorning Docket: 03.18.26 - Above the Law
Chief Justice Roberts calls for ending personal attacks on judges, while questions arise about presidential official acts; meanwhile, legal developments span judicial conduct, cryptocurrency regulation, Section 230 reform, and national security concerns.
Law
fromFortune
4 weeks agoLuigi Mangione's lawyers say back-to-back state and federal trials violate his constitutional rights | Fortune
Luigi Mangione's defense team requested postponing his federal trial to January 2027 and moving his state trial to September to avoid simultaneous preparation for two serious trials.
Law
fromAbove the Law
4 weeks agoThe Rule Of Law Joins America's Dead Pets On The Rainbow Bridge - Above the Law
Trump attorney John Lauro claimed the DOJ improved under Attorney General Pam Bondi, contradicting legal observers who view current conditions as a constitutional crisis threatening prosecutorial independence.
Law
frompatentlyo.com
1 month agoJudge Newman Asks the Supreme Court to Intervene: Framing Judicial Independence as a Constitutional Imperative
Judge Pauline Newman, barred from judicial duties since 2023 without impeachment or disability finding, petitioned the Supreme Court to challenge the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act's bar on reviewing judicial council orders.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month agoStanding Up And Cheering For American-ish Principles - Above the Law
Trump's State of the Union challenge to Democrats about protecting American citizens over illegal aliens was a rhetorical trap that oversimplified complex policy issues requiring nuanced discussion rather than simple yes-or-no responses.
fromEmptywheel
2 months agoWarrants for Innocent People Are Not Like Warrants for Suspects
As you know, Section 215 authorities are not interpreted in the same way that grand jury subpoena authorities are, and we are concerned that when Justice Department officials suggest that the two authorities are 'analogous' they provide the public with a false understanding of how surveillance is interpreted in practice.
fromEmptywheel
2 months agoThe Unstated Constitutional Problems With Obama "Using the 14th"
The Founders, in creating and nurturing our system of governance by and through the Constitution provided separate and distinct branches of government, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial and, further, provided for intentional, established and delineated checks and balances so that power was balanced and not able to be usurped by any one branch tyrannically against the interest of the citizenry.
US politics
fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago'Nothing about what is going on here is normal': A fight over evidence in Good, Pretti cases
State and county lawyers sought court orders to prevent federal agencies from destroying evidence and to compel evidence sharing after alleged mishandling in fatal shootings.
fromAbove the Law
2 months agoThousands Of Law Students Demand Congress Allow The Constitution To Apply To ICE - Above the Law
A student-led coalition has gathered more than 2,600 signatures from law students, legal academics, and law student organizations across 109 law schools calling on Congress to pass the Federal Officer Accountability Act. As the Department of Homeland Security disappears suspected migrants without due process, arbitrarily harasses citizens, and point blank kills innocent people on camera, a shocked public has learned what lawyers have talked about for years: the government has stacked the immunity deck to functionally shield law enforcement from accountability.
Law
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 months agoAppeals Court Reverses Order to Release Khalil
The scheme Congress enacted governing immigration proceedings provides Khalil a meaningful forum in which to raise his claims later on-in a petition for review of a final order of removal,
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