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An Administration Drowning In Vindictive Prosecution Motions Would Like To Abolish The Category
Attorney General Todd Blanche has been in the big chair for all of two weeks, and his Justice Department is already back on its bullshit. This time the target is a familiar one: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the government deported to El Salvador by mistake,...
Privileged Penance: Courts don't get to decide who is clergy or what a confession covers, Arizona Supreme Court says
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Dog owner asks Supreme Court to spare pooch from execution
{mag_summary} It’s not unusual for the U.S. Supreme Court to receive last-minute appeals seeking to halt an execution of an inmate sentenced to death. Earlier…
Law firms increasingly mandate set days in office
{mag_summary} As the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown becomes a distant memory, Am Law 100 law firms are increasingly pushing lawyers to return to the office, with…
Attorney admits ‘stupidity’ over AI errors but still receives sharp rebuke from state high court
{mag_summary} The New Mexico Supreme Court has removed a well-known criminal defense attorney from a murder appeal after discovering that he included artificial intelligence-generated errors…
The latest on the mail-in voting and ballroom battles
Source: YouTubeSummaryAs we’ve noted before, we read a lot of legal news each week while preparing this newsletter. Here’s the most memorable headline we’ve seen recently: Netflix sued by band Demon Hunter over ‘KPop Demon Hunters’At the CourtOn Friday, Chief Justice...
The court’s clearly established problem
If a person is convicted of a crime in state court, they can petition a federal court for relief by claiming that their conviction violates the federal constitution. However, the federal court does not get to consider that claim afresh. Rather, the Antiterrorism and...
There is no constitutional “right to privacy”
This is the second of five introductory articles on the relevance for U.S. constitutional law of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the Declaration of Independence and six out of 12 state constitutions when the federal Bill of Rights was ratified in...
Trump Sues Nonprofit That Questioned Efficacy of National Guard Deployments
In its report, the organization concluded that lowered rates of violent crime are part of a longer-term trend; National Guard deployments to select cities, in contrast, “had no measurable effect on violent crime trends.”