Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Double Jeopardy Opinion Protects The Authority Of Jury Decisions
It is hard to look at the Ninth Amendment and see it as anything other than a deliberate attempt to protect The People from the threat of intensifying bureaucratization. It was well founded — just look at the judiciary. It seems like everyone has varying degrees of discretion: the prosecution can decide which laws to […]
The morning read for Wednesday, Feb. 21
WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Feb 21, 2024 at 9:42 am Join us live at 10 a.m. EST as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases. The justices will then hear oral argument in Ohio v. Environmental Protection Agency and Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy. Each weekday, we select a short […]
Chicago Launches Climate Change Lawsuit Against Oil Industry
“Both the facts, and the law, are on our side,” Chicago Alderman Matt Martin said. Chicago has filed a lawsuit against six oil companies and a fossil fuel lobbying organization, claiming that they planned and funded a long-running campaign of climate change denial that has hurt the city and its residents. According to The Hill, […]
New Filing Accuses Fani Willis of Misrepresenting the Date of her Affair with Nathan Wade – JONATHAN TURLEY
There was a notable filing in the ongoing scandal in Georgia over the intimate relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis and her subordinate special prosecutor Nathan J. Wade. Defense lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, claims to have an affidavit that Willis lied about when the relationship began — a critical fact in her defense […]
Union Time on the Taxpayer Dime – Mark Pulliam
In the post-Janus age, it is just a matter of time before taxpayers successfully challenge, on First Amendment grounds, government subsidies to public-employee unions in the form of “release time,” “official time,” “service time,” or “association business leave.” These terms all describe the same thing: provisions in union contracts between government entities and public-employee unions […]
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Court declines to put hold on Boy Scouts bankruptcy plan
EMERGENCY DOCKET By Amy Howe on Feb 22, 2024 at 5:14 pm Thursday’s order came without any public dissent or explanation. (Guyyoung1966 via Wikimedia Commons) The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request to temporarily put on hold a bankruptcy plan for the Boy Scouts of America while a challenge to that plan continues in […]