Getting Played by Venezuela – Edgar Beltrán
On January 26, the Venezuelan judiciary made an unsurprising announcement. Despite the agreements signed in October with the US government and the Venezuela opposition, the presidential opposition candidate, María Corina Machado, would not be allowed to run for the presidency. Machado, a center-right former legislator, won the primary election in October, taking 90% of the […]
Grading the Presidential Candidates on Cannabis: Donald Trump
Throughout the course of both of his initial candidacy and eventual presidency, the businessman-turned-reality TV star-turned-President and Republican frontrunner for the 2024 election, Donald Trump, had a rollercoaster of a political relationship with cannabis reform. From previous supportive comments to appointing people who were perhaps the physical embodiment of the failures of the drug war, […]
John Oliver Tries To Tempt Clarence Thomas Into Retirement Offering Millions, Sweet Ride
John Oliver (Photo via YouTube screenshot) A cottage industry has developed just for talking about Clarence Thomas and all the ethical messes he’s made. Just think of all the scandals we learned about in 2023 alone! The deluge of bad press began when ProPublica uncovered evidence that the senior Supreme Court justice took hundreds of thousands of […]
Justices decline to intervene in another dispute over race and school admissions
SCOTUS NEWS By Amy Howe on Feb 20, 2024 at 10:48 am The court declined to take up Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board on Tuesday. (Abbie Fitz via Shutterstock) Less than a year after its decision striking down the admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina as unconstitutional on […]
New Project Supporting & Evaluating Implementation of Holistic Public Defense in North Carolina – North Carolina Criminal Law
In a new project launched in January 2024, the UNC School of Government Criminal Justice Innovation Lab (the Lab) is partnering with the North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services (IDS) to support stakeholder interest in using social workers as part of a holistic public defense team. The project has two components: a workshop for […]
Calming the Frazzled Mind | Limit Inputs to Improve Outputs
Being a lawyer is stressful. If you can limit your inputs, visually and aurally, it helps. Here’s how Ruth Carter simplifies her to-dos to work more efficiently and promote a calmer, less frazzled mind. The Day That Taught Me to Limit My Inputs On a recent freezing cold morning, as I was walking Lucy Jane, […]
A Battle Over Rights and Care Erupts as the Maine Bill Collapses –
Maine bill draws attention to the fact that policymakers need to come together to better advocate for all human rights. Maine senators struck down a bill to increase children’s access to gender-declaring medical care, reigniting the transgender rights and care parental authority debate. Supporters stated the law in reality desired to save susceptible kids’ lives, […]