"It Is an Immutable and Universal Rule That Judges Are Not as Funny as They Think They Are"
Words of wisdom from the Utah Supreme Court.
Words of wisdom from the Utah Supreme Court.
Litigation financing, campaign financing, and salmagundi.
The legislation moves forward following a compromise with law enforcement groups.
Don't believe the Justice Department when it reassures journalists that the WikiLeaks founder is uniquely guilty of violating the Espionage Act.
Plus: Naomi Wolf has no clue (again), gun site wins Section 230 case, and more...
This is the nature of government. It can't stop the flow of illicit substances in a sealed and militarized building that's under its total control.
The court upheld a $1000 fine imposed by state law on Presidential electors who refused to vote as the voters instructed.
The bipartisan push to remove capital punishment from state law is moving forward.
What happens when cities and counties have their own ideas about a law that authorizes the seizure of guns from people who are mentally ill?
The operation used its intimate knowledge of NYPD operations to thrive.
Jon Goldsmith called a local deputy a "stupid sum bitch" on Facebook, so the deputy's superior charged Goldsmith with writing a threatening statement.
Or are Americans simply wising up to the dangers posed by cops having their "face prints" on file?
A study shows that when these fees hit low-income offenders, they wreck their lives—and also don't even get paid.
The bill allows dual prosecutions of people in the president's orbit who receive pardons or commutations.
While well-intentioned, the alert system is often ineffective.
I discuss with Nadine Strossen and Jacob Mchangama what the Internet has come to
Matthew Bowen hit a man who crossed the border. Then he sent a text calling him a "human pit maneuver."
Emanuel was a habitual violator of Illinois' public records laws and shielded the police from public scrutiny whenever he could.
The restriction was unconstitutionally content-based, the Eighth Circuit held, because it has an exception for flags "containing distinctive colors, patterns or symbols used as a symbol of a government or institution."
A debate over recognizing a pro-Israel student group reveals ignorance and antisemitism among Williams' students
The oft-abused tool is used more to raise revenue than to protect public safety.
Trumps two High Court nominees are jurisprudentially independent of one another.
Thoughts on a debate that will be held at the ALI Annual Meeting.
Episode 263 of the Cyberlaw Podcast
Drug traffickers' idol, a voice from the grave, and all decent people.
Kelling later disavowed the high-volume arrest programs that police departments justified using his theory.
For five years, the NYPD, its apologists, and even Mayor Bill de Blasio have absolved cops of their role in Eric Garner's death.
Plus: An old drug warrior learns new tricks, Taiwan legalizes same-sex marriage, and more...
The US role in the ongoing war in Yemen violates the War Powers Act. Reasserting Congressional power here is vital to the more general purpose of ensuring legislative control over the initiation of war.
A hearing on white nationalism produced some agreement that the FBI's hate crime statistics don't reveal strong evidence of a surge.
Contradictory responses to a request for autopsy reports illustrate how law enforcement agencies take advantage of a broad exception to the state's public records law.
Fellow inmates did more to help ReGina Thurman than her guards and nurses.
The opinion stems from an injunction currently preventing Texas from importing sodium thiopental.
Preventing a slow march toward automated authoritarianism?
Plus: Twitter team pushes back against Devin Nunes lawsuit, candidates stumble on Medicare for All, and more...
The physical evidence at the scene seems inconsistent with the story told by the officers who conducted the no-knock drug raid.
A new decision on sovereign immunity, and what it means for originalists.
From today's opinion by Justice Thomas, for the five more conservative members of the Court, in Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt.
Five years later, Daniel Pantaleo faces administrative justice.
Plus: Police raid reporters' home in San Francisco, a crackdown on free market economists in China, and more....
So holds a Louisiana Court of Appeal decision from last week.