A broad array of advocacy organizations and religious groups—including the Vatican—are urging President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of several groups of federal prisoners before he leaves office, such as death row inmates, marijuana offenders, and women who were sexually assaulted in federal prisons. Biden issued a broad pardon to his son Hunter last […]
This morning the Supreme Court issued its first signed decision in an argued case for October Term 2024. (The Court previously DIGged another case.) This restores the tradition of deciding at least some cases in the fall. Last year, the Court’s first decision in an argued case did not appear until January. Justice Ketanji Brown […]
After a bit of a hiatus, The Academic Freedom Podcast is back and will hopefully release on a more regular schedule in coming months. It is still sponsored by the Academic Freedom Alliance and can be found on the same feed and at the same webpage. However, it is also now co-sponsored by the new […]
I will be doing a webinar today at noon (eastern) with Gregg Nunziata at the Society for the Rule of Law. You can register for the virtual event at here. We will be discussing my latest book, The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of an Extraordinary Constitutional Tool, just published by Princeton University […]
A Tim Urban bro:Â The suspected killer of the United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, was found in a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania yesterday. He has been identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione. Mangione had on his person a 3D-printed gun and a silencer, as well as a manifesto detailing his motives. “The handwritten manifesto found on the person […]
During oral argument in Skrmetti, Justice Thomas disputed that the Tennessee law imposed a sex-based classification. Instead, he said, this was merely an age-based classification. Adults are able to receive certain treatment, but minors cannot. And generally, age-based classifications are reviewed for minimum rationality. For example, why do different states grant drivers licenses at 15, 16, […]
From In re Ex Parte Application of Kim, decided Thursday by Judge Beth Labson Freeman (N.D. Cal.), a case involving an application filed “pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782, seeking leave to take limited discovery from Google LLC” for a South Korean civil defamation case: Ms. Kim claims that she has been the victim of […]
In Berens v. Yale New Haven Health Servs. Corp., decided yesterday by Judge Janet Hall (D. Conn.)’s decision, Yale New Haven Health employees sued to challenge Yale New Haven’s COVID-19 vaccine protocols. Those plaintiffs who sued pseudonymously apparently all received exemptions from the vaccine mandate, but “were required to submit negative COVID-19 test results each […]
Reason‘s 17th annual Webathon is just about over. But it’s not too late to give! So before this once-a-year give-us-your-money party concludes, I want to make one more appeal: Give us your money, because Reason will always stand on the side of open debate and free speech. Over the last decade, Americans have seen a […]
From Judge Marco Hernandez’s decision posted yesterday in U.S. v. Hernandez-Zamora (D. Alaska); for the order granting a new trial, see this other post: On July 19, 2024, Defendant filed a motion for either dismissal of the indictment or a new trial based on misconduct by former U.S. District Court Judge Joshua Kindred and a […]
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