(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) On Friday, the ACLU asked the Supreme Court if it actually trusted the Trump administration to follow the law and around 1 a.m. on Saturday morning, seven of the justices responded “LOL, no.” After already ordering the government to stop deporting people to El Salvador slave prison without due process, […]
Share The Supreme Court kicks off the final argument of the 2024-25 term today with arguments in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management and Parrish v. U.S. Read Amy Howe on Braidwood, a dispute over a group’s objection to the HHS task force that determines which preventive services, such as the HIV prevention drugs known as PrEP, […]
Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in the first of two cases in April involving religion and public schools. In Mahmoud v. Taylor a coalition of parents from Montgomery County, Md., contend that requiring their children to participate in instruction that includes LGBTQ+ themes violates their religious beliefs and thus their […]
Every so often, someone pings the tipster line and asks some variant of, “Why aren’t you more bipartisan?” Many times this is couched in a stream of expletives. Often it’s technically addressed to a guy that hasn’t worked here since before the pandemic. I don’t know if these people just don’t know that Elie Mystal […]
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Norton Rose Fulbright attorneys are being warned by firm leaders to mind their Ps and Qs when talking about Donald Trump. Due to “sensitivities surrounding this subject,” whenever an attorney is writing anything related to Trump they have to get it cleared by the firm’s editorial team, according to an internal memo addressed to the […]
Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. “The New Transparency Rules and the El Salvador Detention Agreement; A 2022 statute could force disclosure of any U.S.-El Salvador agreements connected […]
One of the issues that many small firm lawyers face is they often need to appear at multiple court appearances at the same time. Although larger firms might have the resources to send multiple attorneys to court appearances so lawyers do not need to be in the same place at the same time, small firm lawyers […]
Marco Rubio Pushes For Thought Crime Deportations: This is going to end up in the “How did they let things get so far” part of a history book. NYU’s Law Faculty Model Principled Defiance: Show these other schools how its done! Law School Punishes Hopefuls For Not Committing Quick Enough: Hurry it up folks, its […]
Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Since the Supreme Court overruled a federal constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the fight over reproductive rights has shifted to […]
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