Trump Grants Clemency to 5 More Federal Prisoners
President Donald Trump has granted clemency to five federal inmates, putting the total for his first term at 16 commutations and 27 pardons. On Wednesday the White House announced that …
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FBI Not Playing Along as Trump Tries To Implicate Joe Biden in Crimes
It looks like President Donald Trump is hoping for a redux of 2016’s announcement that the FBI was investigating Hillary Clinton. With less than two weeks until the 2020 election, …
Fun Facts About Judge David C. Westenhaver of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (1865-1928)
Most District Court judges can spend their entire careers without the Supreme Court reviewing one of their decisions. Very few have two of their decisions reviewed by the Supreme Court. …
Sharp Criticism + Doxing of State Narcotics Agency Isn’t Punishable True Threat
From United States v. Cook, decided July 13 by Judge Michael P. Mills: In 2018 Cook was prosecuted by the State of Mississippi for sale of a controlled substance. The …
Thursday Open Thread
Please feel free to write comments on this post on whatever topic you like! (As usual, please avoid personal insults of each other, vulgarities aimed at each other or at …
The Games Must Go On
In any other baseball season, two Cleveland Indians pitchers hitting the bars in Chicago after a Saturday night game wouldn’t be news. It wouldn’t cause a minor scandal within the …
Brickbat: Free and Open Discussion
Gloucester, Massachusetts, school Superintendent Ben Lummis says he was disappointed when he heard a teacher had mocked a 12-year-old student for voicing support for President Donald Trump during a classroom …
Vexatious Litigant vs. Linda Sarsour
Monday, the Illinois Appellate Court held that Abdul Mohammed should be declared a vexatious litigant, and enjoined from filing various lawsuits related to some frivolous claims that he had already …
Court Revives Wiretap Target’s Attempt to Get Information About the Wiretap
From Guerrero v. Hestrin, decided today by the California Court of Appeal, in an opinion written by Justice Michael Raphael and joined by Justices Douglas Miller and Marsha Slough: In …
Classes #18: The Scope of the 14th Amendment III and Zoning I
Class 18: The Scope of the 14th Amendment III – The Equal Protection Clause Yick Wo v. Hopkins (880-883) Plessy v. Ferguson (884-895) Class 17: Zoning I Introduction, 898-899 Village …