Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Saturday, March 14, 2026

Hegseth Endorses War Crime

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 María Teresita Armstrong-Matta at Raw Story: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's offhand remark that the U.S. would show "no quarter,...
Monday, December 29, 2025

Congressional Output

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  Many   posts  have  discussed  the  state of Congress . Paul Kane at WP : With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Monday, the House...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

Flat Fees and California Public Defenders

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Many posts have discussed the American legal system . Anat Rubin at CalMatters: Nearly half of California counties pay private lawyers an...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Lawyers and Presidential Tickets

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 Bruce Mehlman: Every Democrat nominated for President or Vice President for the past 40 years was a lawyer until Tim Walz. (21/22 D’s &...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Silencing Critics by Threatening Litigation

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Filmmaker Mary Strause made a docuseries critical of UnitedHealth.  The companies used the threat of litigation to coerce streaming services...
Monday, May 5, 2025

Perkins Coie

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  A note on Judge Howell’s ruling striking down the Perkins Coie exec order. Key point is in 1st sentence: “No American President has ever b...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Rural Areas and Legal Deserts

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Many posts have dealt with the problems of rural America. Michelle Paxton at ABA : Rural communities severely lack access to attorneys, a...
Monday, March 31, 2025

How Many Federal Crimes?

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In our chapter on bureaucracy , we quote James Madison's warning about " laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read , or so in...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Minoritarianism

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Steven M. Teles, "Minoritarianism Is Everythwere,:  National Affairs , spring 2025 In search of the tyranny of the minority, one would...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Legislative Page Counts

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  Hey dumbass, the left is an appropriations bill which is what congress is supposed To do, detail what it’s appropriating which takes a lot...
Thursday, August 8, 2024

Too Many Laws

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In our chapter on bureaucracy , we quote James Madison's warning about "laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoh...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

The Fall of Roe

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 Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer at NYT  report on the Alliance Defending Freedom and its role in the fall of Roe . The goal would be to remo...
Sunday, April 14, 2024

Immunity and Insurrection

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From Jack Smith's brief in the immunity case: Even if this Court holds that a former President is entitled to some immunity from crimina...
Friday, March 29, 2024

A Duty to Uphold the Law

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 From the State Bar of California: In a 128-page ruling, California State Bar Court Hearing Judge Yvette D. Roland found licensee John Charl...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Prosecutors and Appearances

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Many posts have discussed prosecutors .  Jessica Levinson at MSNBC: Appearances matter when it comes to members of our government, and pe...
Sunday, December 17, 2023

House Bipartisan Lawmaking

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Stef Kight at Axios: Republicans may hold the House majority, but Democratic yeas outnumbered GOP votes on every major bill that landed on ...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

Jack Smith Statement

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Special Counsel Jack Smith Delivers Statement Washington, DC ~ Friday, June 9, 2023 Good afternoon. Today, an indictment was unsealed chargi...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

AI-Generated Research and Hallucinations

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Artificial intelligence is an increasingly important topic in politics , policy , and law. Benjamin Weiser at NYT: The lawsuit began lik...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Indicting Political Leaders

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Richard Pérez-Peña at NYT: In just the past 15 years, Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac of France, Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak of S...
Saturday, February 4, 2023

Lawyers, Oaths, and the Insurrection

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Many   posts  have discussed  oaths  .  Jessica Levinson at MSNBC: Simply put, with power comes responsibility. Thus, before law students ca...