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Morning Docket: 08.25.26
* Supreme Court uses shadow docket to lift injunction against Trump proposal to use Post Office to block votes from states that Trump doesn’t approve. The majority ruled the injunction premature because the Post Office hadn’t issued a final rule yet. The...
ShopMy Accused Of Manipulating Affiliate Commissions
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SCOTUS Shadow Docket Hands Trump His Mail-In Ballot Wish, And Justice Jackson Is Having None Of It
The shadow docket strikes again. Yesterday, in an unsigned per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration an emergency stay letting it move forward with the president’s March executive order overhauling how mail-in ballots get administered...
Lessons at sea on international law motivated this retired Navy commander to become a law prof
{mag_summary}As an honors history major at Amherst College in Massachusetts who wrote his senior thesis in 1980 on the War Powers Act, David Glazier recalls…
Milbank is latest law firm to make moves into this city
{mag_summary} Milbank has hired the co-chair of White & Case’s global project development and finance practice to help lead its new location in Chicago. Scott…
Prominent Rhode Island lawyer who died now accused of defrauding clients of millions of dollars
{mag_summary} Within days of his death, clients and friends of a prominent Rhode Island attorney have alleged that money that they loaned him or that…
SCOTUS sides with Trump administration in mail-in voting dispute
Justice Lewis Powell died on this day in 1998. During his time on the Supreme Court, Powell was considered a moderate, leaning “to the right on some key issues and to the left on others.” CNN recently described him as one of a series of justices who occupied a...
Gutting the Alien Tort Statute
The Supreme Court’s decision in Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe I, decided in June, is a lethal blow to suits under the federal Alien Tort Statute. Such litigation often is the only remedy available to victims of human rights abuses. Through Cisco, the court has...
The justices should regularly sit on the lower courts
This is the fifth piece in a series on what I believe the court can, and should, do better.***Each term, the chief justice appoints a circuit justice for each of the twelve regional courts of appeals. These appointments are expressly authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 42....