Share Over a dissent by two of the court’s conservative justices, the Supreme Court temporarily barred the Trump administration from removing a group of Venezuelan men currently in immigration custody in the northern region of Texas under an 18th century wartime law. The prohibition came in an unusual overnight order that followed a Friday evening […]
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Applying to law school is bad enough. Throwing your future into the hands of administrators applying bespoke black box methodologies to weigh your life’s work and a 4-hour test. Prospective students shouldn’t have to deal with exploding offers of financial assistance while waiting on a final decision from the 10 other schools on the list. […]
The rule against perpetuities was created for two reasons: (1) to torture bar exam applicants and (2) to establish that the long dead ought not have the right to intervene in the affairs of the living. Because, however benevolent seeming at the time, dead hand control is a no-no. While the rule against perpetuities only […]
(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) The United States cannot send its convicted prisoners to a country that will impose cruel and unusual punishment. It has to send them to a country where the United States maintains jurisdiction over them so that they can file writs of habeas corpus. In the end, it’s a nonstarter. — […]
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Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Supreme Court keeps hold on Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship but sets May arguments (Mark Sherman, The Associated Press) Supreme Court to hear arguments over injunctions on Trump bid to end birthright […]
Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Monday in yet another dispute over the separation of powers. The case is a challenge to the constitutionality of the structure of a relatively obscure section of the Department of Health and Human Services. But although the issue may sound like a technical one, the court’s […]
The Trump administration keeps losing challenges to his effort to rewrite the birthright citizenship provision of the Fourteenth Amendment. Earlier today, the Supreme Court agreed to take up the administration’s bid to limit the injunctions in these cases solely to the parties involved. In so doing, the Supreme Court scheduled oral argument for May 15. […]
The Firm’s $125M Capitulation Has A Very Small Asterisk: No free work on trade deals! That’s Way Too Many Pro Boner Hours: Attorney may have gotten caught streaming 60+ hours of porn at work. Plagiarism Isn’t Just A School Problem: Lawyer gets punished for copy and pasting from a public complaint. …Is That A Brian […]
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