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President Trump thought about dealing out quick justice to his Supreme Court pick after learning that he criticized him, according to a report. The commander-in-chief became upset and talked about rescinding the nomination of Neil Gorsuch after he met with Connecticut Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal and told him that Trump's attack on the judiciary were "disheartening" and "demoralizing," the Washington Post reported Monday.
Via a colleague's tweet, I just learned about a remarkable sent of opinions handed down late last week by the Utah Supreme Court in Neese v. Utah Board of Pardons & Parole , 2017 UT 89 .
The Supreme Court of the United States is currently deciding whether or not it will allow the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission to determine if bakers, based on their religious beliefs, can refuse to bake for LGBT people.
Earlier this year I started to correspond with Caleb Mason concerning his effort to preserve a sentence imposed below a federal mandatory minimum in the face of a government appeal. I suggested to Caleb that he write up an account of the case and his pitch for amicus help.
As sexual harassment scandals continue to roil the media and entertainment industries, Hollywood executives are banding together to address the underlying issues. On Friday, top players came together to form the Commission on Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace.
In this February 1964 file photo, Henry Montgomery, flanked by two deputies, awaits the verdict in his trial for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Charles H. Hurt in Baton Rouge, La.
The first time ended badly, so when, 156 years later, Alabamians were incited to again try secession, this time from the national consensus that America is a pretty nice place, they said: No. No, that is, to rubbish like this: In April, Alabama's Republican governor, Robert Bentley, resigned one step ahead of impeachment proceedings arising from his consensual affair with an adult woman.
Eduardo Lopez Jr. leaves the court room after the first day of his resentencing hearing in Nashua. He's now 43. A 43-year-old man serving a life sentence for a murder he committed at 17 may now get a chance to be released.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to add a handful of cases to their docket. Among the seven new cases is a familiar issue: partisan gerrymandering.
Third Circuit Says U.S. District Court in 2016 Should Not Have Imposed County Distribution Requirements without Finding That They Would be Harmless On December 13, the Third Circuit issued an 18-page opinion in Constitution Party of Pennsylvania v Cortes, 16-3266. The decision says that last year's decision by the U.S. District Court, rewriting the Pennsylvania ballot access laws for minor party and independent candidates, was faulty.
Talking 'bout my generation: Younger people are concerned with climate, but how engaged are they politically? Joe Brusky/flickr, CC BY-NC Three judges in San Francisco potentially have the power to decide how the US government deals with climate change. Later today, 21 young Americans will make the case that President Trump has endangered their future by aiding and abetting the dirty industries responsible for the global crisis.
His Justice Department, The New York Times reports , is investigating colleges, including Harvard, whose admissions policies supposedly disfavor whites and Asians to benefit blacks and Hispanics. This is perverse, for the evidence shows that those minorities continue to be underrepresented on American campuses.
From left to right: Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The path to a U.S. Supreme Court clerkship runs disproportionately through the chambers of certain circuit judges, many of whom sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and almost all of whom are white men.
Steven Calabresi, one of the Federalist Society's co-founders, in advance of the organization's most recent annual convention last month published a paper advocating that the number of authorized federal appellate judges should be increased greatly in order to rapidly counteract the majorities of Democratic appointees currently found on various federal appellate courts. This proposal is absurd and in all likelihood counter-productive for numerous reasons.
A state court trial over congressional district boundaries is about to get underway in Pennsylvania as a parallel case awaits a decision in federal court. The Commonwealth Court proceeding Monday in Harrisburg was put on a fast track by the state Supreme Court a month ago.
A gay man who was twice denied a marriage license by Kim Davis has thrown his hat in the ring to run against her for county clerk. David Ermold, an assistant professor of English at the University of Pikeville, announced his plan to run against Davis for the position of Rowan County Clerk in Kentucky.
When Sheilah Martin was nominated last week to fill a vacancy on Canada's Supreme Court, the only criticism came from Canadians disappointed that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had not appointed an indigenous judge to the court. Since the process began to name a replacement for Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, who retires on Dec. 15, there was an expectation the nominee was going to be a woman.
A few days' passing and thorough reading of the oral argument transcript for Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission leave me less optimistic than commentators such as Amy Howe at Scotusblog and David French at National Review.
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the confession given by Brendan Dassey, a key figure in the Netflix "Making a Murderer" series, should not be thrown out. The decision from the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a federal judge's ruling and means Dassey's life sentence will remain in effect.