This Is How Sex-Trafficking Panic Gets Made
Plus: fight against FOSTA continues and Tennessee trooper reports Democrat for visiting falafel restaurant.
Plus: fight against FOSTA continues and Tennessee trooper reports Democrat for visiting falafel restaurant.
Efforts to help ex-offenders by making it difficult for employers to find out about a job applicant's criminal record can backfire.
Predictions to that effect may turn out to be overblown. But we should still take the threat of "court-packing" and other drastic measures to to reduce the Court's power seriously.
I have a contribution in it, along with a variety of prominent legal scholars and commentators.
"Ginsburg Forgets 14th Amendment, Audience Has To Give Her Constitution," says a Daily Wire headline -- but the story doesn't mention this was section 2,
I don't sign such letters unless I fully agree with every assertion made.
Butter grades, toxic coal ash, and Stairway to Heaven.
... and the conservative Federalist Society is named after legislative history.
Further thoughts on why Kavanaugh's testimony is disqualifying.
Kavanaugh was correct: it was a circus. But he was the one who made it a circus - and for that (apart from anything that he may or may not have done in 1982) he should not be confirmed.
Contrary to the fears of some pundits, the U.S. is not on the brink of civil war. But the explanation for that is far from entirely reassuring.
How "judicial philosophy" figures into the decision to support or oppose a nominee.
One of the points at issue in the debate over the sexual assault accusations against Brett Kavanaugh is whether the standards of proof used by the Senate should be those appropriate to a criminal trial or those of a job interview. The latter is the superior approach.
What Maryland calls "misdemeanors" is very different from what other states do.
The symposium includes contributions by various legal commentators, including Bruce Ackerman, Mari Matsuda, Deborah Rhode, and myself.
Interviewing prisoners, Auer deference in criminal cases, and Rand Paul's neighbor.
The ABA president called for a delay in voting on Kavanaugh's nomination, but the ABA refuses to provide any details about this decision
Jeff Sessions credits the dip to his tough-on-crime policies, but criminal justice groups say that's nonsense.
New FBI statistics for 2017 even show a small increase.
He has prior felony convictions, but 20 years still seems harsh.
It's a scare tactic, and an inaccurate one at that.
A 10-year veteran of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, Ortiz is also a "serial murderer" say Texas authorities.
But if the show must exist, I have some ripped-from-the-headlines ideas for upcoming plots.
My upcoming speaking engagements through November of this year. Most are free and open to the public.
PolitiFact has the details -- but in any event, the purported statistic was suspect on its face.
Feeding the homeless, drawing the Prophet Muhammed, and Kim Kardashian's plea for executive clemency.
After police said Tibbetts' killer is an illegal immigrant, conservatives started using her death to argue for stricter immigration enforcement.
Is hush money to a politician's mistress "for the purpose of influencing an election" or "personal use"?
A question that now hangs like a miasma over D.C. is "Which of my staffers would hang me out to dry in order to avoid going to federal prison?"
At some level, the "void-for-breadth" doctrine already exists, but it needs to be excavated, clarified, and expanded.
The Wisconsin and Mississippi Supreme Courts have recently rejected state-level Chevron deference.
When a criminal law is extremely broad but perfectly clear, in what sense does it violate rule-of-law principles?
A program at UC-Davis looks at the relationship between capitalism and racism.
Ha! Science now has a non-shocking answer that question: Yes, of course, they are.