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fromEsquire
1 day ago
US politics

Justice John Roberts Has Almost Completed His Life's Work of Destroying the Voting Rights Act

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fromAbove the Law
4 hours ago

How Appealing Weekly Roundup - Above the Law

Penn & Teller challenge the use of 'investigative hypnosis' in a Texas death-penalty case before the Supreme Court.
US politics
fromEsquire
1 day ago

Justice John Roberts Has Almost Completed His Life's Work of Destroying the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais may undermine the Voting Rights Act and reflects tensions among justices regarding the use of emergency orders.
Social justice
fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago

The Supreme Court Has a Chance to Revolutionize Its Approach to the Law

Supreme Court rulings on Reconstruction Amendments will significantly impact voting rights and protections for marginalized groups, particularly Black Americans and transgender individuals.
Law
fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

The Terrible, Hidden Stakes of One of the Thorniest Supreme Court Cases of This Term

Pitchford v. Cain highlights the complexities of racial discrimination claims in jury selection within the constraints of modern habeas corpus law.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

How Appealing Weekly Roundup - Above the Law

Supreme Court's actions and decisions are increasingly scrutinized, revealing issues of transparency and significant impacts on civil rights and electoral processes.
Law
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks ago

How Appealing Weekly Roundup - Above the Law

Supreme Court rules in favor of Cox Communications in a copyright case involving pirated music.
#trump
Left-wing politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

The supreme court needs to put limits on Trump's use of the pardoning power | Steven Greenhouse

Trump's pardons undermine democracy and ethics, deviating from Hamilton's vision of cautious presidential pardoning.
Washington DC
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 days ago

US appeals court blocks contempt case over Trump deportation flights

The Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelan immigrants faced legal challenges but was upheld by an appeals court ruling.
Law
fromAbove the Law
4 days ago

In America, Even Judges Have To Take Matters In To Their Own Hands - Above the Law

Judges are increasingly carrying guns for self-protection due to rising threats and inadequate security measures.
#ai-in-law
fromThe Washington Post
2 weeks ago
US news

Judges are increasingly using AI to draft rulings and prepare for hearings

Federal judges increasingly use AI tools for case preparation, improving efficiency and decision-making.
fromAbove the Law
2 weeks ago
Law

Atlanta Prosecutor Repeatedly Cites Non-Existent Cases To Avoid Murder Retrial - Above the Law

AI hallucinations in legal work are leading to serious issues, including the citation of nonexistent cases by attorneys.
Law
fromAbove the Law
2 weeks ago

Atlanta Prosecutor Repeatedly Cites Non-Existent Cases To Avoid Murder Retrial - Above the Law

AI hallucinations in legal work are leading to serious issues, including the citation of nonexistent cases by attorneys.
#birthright-citizenship
US Elections
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

US supreme court to weigh whether Trump can deny birthright citizenship

The US Supreme Court will decide if Trump can deny birthright citizenship to children born on US soil, impacting many families annually.
Social justice
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

The Supreme Court Has Heard This One Before

Birthright citizenship, established in 1898, faces renewed challenges from the current presidential administration, echoing historical attacks on this fundamental rule.
US Elections
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

US supreme court to weigh whether Trump can deny birthright citizenship

The US Supreme Court will decide if Trump can deny birthright citizenship to children born on US soil, impacting many families annually.
Social justice
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

The Supreme Court Has Heard This One Before

Birthright citizenship, established in 1898, faces renewed challenges from the current presidential administration, echoing historical attacks on this fundamental rule.
NYC parents
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

Judge Calls Murder Charge in Georgia Abortion Case "Extremely Problematic"

A Georgia judge expressed skepticism over a murder charge against a woman for taking abortion pills, setting her bail at $1.
fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks ago

DOJ Lawyers Just Had to Make One of Their Most Embarrassing Confessions Yet

The Department of Justice offered a startling confession to a court on Tuesday, acknowledging that it repeatedly made a 'material mistaken statement of fact' while defending Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests of noncitizens at immigration court.
US politics
US Elections
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

The Supreme Court looks poised to ban late mail ballots ahead of the midterms | Fortune

A court case from Mississippi could impact mail ballot deadlines in 13 states and D.C., with a ruling expected by late June.
Social justice
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks ago

Jay Clayton's SDNY Throws ICE Under The Bus To Save Face In Court - Above the Law

The U.S. Attorney's Office corrected a significant error regarding ICE's immigration arrest policy in court.
Law
fromAbove the Law
2 weeks ago

Morning Docket: 04.02.26 - Above the Law

DOJ has prioritized deporting law-abiding individuals over prosecuting serious criminal cases.
LGBT
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

Fourth Circuit Removes Autonomy From Adults In Healthcare Ban Decision - Above the Law

West Virginia's Medicaid ban on gender-affirming surgeries for adults was upheld by a federal appeals court, extending discrimination beyond minors despite Supreme Court precedent suggesting adults could access treatment.
#judicial-independence
US politics
fromAbove the Law
4 weeks ago

Morning Docket: 03.18.26 - Above the Law

Chief Justice Roberts calls for ending personal attacks on judges, while questions arise about presidential official acts; meanwhile, legal developments span judicial conduct, cryptocurrency regulation, Section 230 reform, and national security concerns.
Law
fromABA Journal
1 month ago

Nearly 200 former judges denounce claim that courts are ignoring Supreme Court orders

Over 175 former federal and state judges denounce Trump administration claims that district courts are ignoring Supreme Court orders, calling such attacks an extraordinary assault on the judiciary.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

Federal Judges Threatened For Doing Their Jobs Speak Up - Above the Law

Federal judges face escalating violent threats and harassment for making constitutional rulings, including swatting attacks and assassination attempts, undermining judicial independence.
Law
fromAbove the Law
2 weeks ago

Morning Docket: 03.30.26 - Above the Law

AI associates should not be blamed for failures, raising questions about their necessity.
US politics
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

The Supreme Court Just Heeded One of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Sharpest Dissents

The Supreme Court unanimously refused to immediately revoke Temporary Protected Status for over 350,000 immigrants from Haiti and Syria, instead allowing full judicial review while maintaining their legal protections.
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

U.S. Judge says Kari Lake broke law in overseeing Voice of America

Lake satisfies the requirements of neither the statute nor the Constitution. He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void. That includes the layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers at the U.S. Agency for Global Media and the Voice of America.
Media industry
Law
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks ago

Morning Docket: 03.25.26 - Above the Law

The Justice Department may have leaked grand jury testimony, raising concerns about legal violations.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
1 month ago

Patently Unreasonable: Hyatt's Return to the Supreme Court and the Fight Over Prosecution Laches

Gilbert Hyatt petitions the Supreme Court to challenge the Federal Circuit's prosecution laches doctrine, arguing it conflicts with statutory patent timing provisions in the Patent Act.
Law
fromLawSites
4 weeks ago

Sixth Circuit Slaps Steep Sanctions on Two Lawyers for Fake Citations and Misrepresentations in Appellate Briefs

The 6th Circuit imposed substantial sanctions on two Tennessee attorneys for filing briefs containing over two dozen fabricated or misrepresented citations, ordering $15,000 fines each plus joint responsibility for appellees' attorney fees and double costs.
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

12 perks of being a Supreme Court justice

After all, you get lifetime job security, great pay and benefits, thousands of dollars in gifts, entry into an elite club of fellow justices - oh, and the ability to shape the country as we know it.
US politics
fromReadWrite
1 month ago

Judge denies Kalshi emergency request amid Arizona criminal case

The Younger abstention doctrine provides that federal courts are not to interfere with pending state criminal proceedings. The doctrine is rarely invoked in regulatory disputes, but it can block federal courts from intervening when state criminal prosecutions are already underway. If the judge applies it here, the federal case could effectively stall while the state case proceeds.
Law
fromBrooklyn Eagle
2 months ago

PREMIUM The Supreme Court may soon diminish Black political power, undoing generations of gains

There would be considerable historical irony if the court decides to use the 14th Amendment to provide the legal cover for reversing a generation of Black political progress in the South. Initially designed to enshrine federal civil rights protections for freed people facing a battery of discriminatory " Black Codes" in the postbellum South, the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause has been the foundation of the nation's modern rights-based legal order, ensuring that all U.S. citizens are treated fairly.
Brooklyn
National Basketball Association
fromESPN.com
1 month ago

Alabama Supreme Court denies Charles Bediako's request to play while case is appealed

Alabama Supreme Court denied Charles Bediako's request to play college basketball while appealing a preliminary injunction ruling, effectively ending his college career for the second time.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
1 month ago

Five Petitions, Five Denials: The Federal Circuit's Mandamus Wall Grows Higher

The Federal Circuit rejected all mandamus petitions challenging USPTO's discretionary denial of inter partes review, establishing that such denials are not subject to judicial oversight.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Supreme Court appears split in tax foreclosure case

The Supreme Court examines whether counties must pay homeowners fair market value when seizing homes for unpaid property taxes, or only auction proceeds minus taxes owed.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

'We Are Better Than This,' Say Ninth Circuit Judges Despite All Evidence To The Contrary - Above the Law

Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the Ninth Circuit has authored inflammatory and unprofessional dissents using crude language and personal attacks against colleagues, contradicting the ABA's initial assessment of his qualifications.
Law
frompatentlyo.com
1 month ago

Judge Newman Asks the Supreme Court to Intervene: Framing Judicial Independence as a Constitutional Imperative

Judge Pauline Newman, barred from judicial duties since 2023 without impeachment or disability finding, petitioned the Supreme Court to challenge the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act's bar on reviewing judicial council orders.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

Just 2 Federal Law Clerks Filed Complaints Against Judges Last Year - Above the Law

Federal law clerks face systemic barriers preventing misconduct complaints against judges, with only two JCDA complaints filed in 2025 despite 106 documented cases of mistreatment in 2023.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
2 months ago

Government Urges Supreme Court to Deny AI Copyright Case, Emphasizing Narrow Question and Statutory Text

Current statute requires human authorship for copyright; recognizing autonomous AI as an author is unsupported, while human-AI collaboration questions remain unresolved.
US politics
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

McQuade: Why Bondi chose a Missouri prosecutor for a Georgia election case

A Trump-aligned federal prosecutor was specially appointed to investigate Georgia election matters, raising risks of politically motivated prosecutions and threats to future election integrity.
fromAbove the Law
2 months ago

DOJ Attacks Judge, Claims Judicial Immunity For Itself - Above the Law

If you are a lawyer, are interested in being an AUSA, and support President Trump and anti-crime agenda, DM me. We need good prosecutors. And DOJ is hiring across the country. Now is your chance to join the mission and do good for our country.- Chad Mizelle (@chad_mizelle) January 31, 2026
US politics
#immigration-enforcement
US politics
fromWIRED
2 months ago

Judge Delays Minnesota ICE Decision While Weighing Whether State Was Being Illegally Punished

A federal judge ordered DHS to explain whether Operation Metro Surge uses armed raids to coerce Minnesota into abandoning sanctuary policies; operations continue pending the response.
US politics
fromAbove the Law
2 months ago

How Appealing Weekly Roundup - Above the Law

Legal and political disputes: tariffs, Supreme Court action, prison transfers, free-speech risks, Bondi oversight, and challenges to the Voting Rights Act.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

Federal Circuit Dissents Plummet After Pauline Newman's Ersatz Impeachment - Above the Law

Dissenting opinions reveal judicial disagreement and can vindicate alternative legal reasoning over time, as demonstrated by Judge Pauline Newman's dissents on the Federal Circuit being later affirmed by the Supreme Court.
US politics
fromemptywheel
2 months ago

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Told You So, Social Security Edition - emptywheel

SSA learned in November 2025 that the DOGE team accessed and shared Social Security data potentially outside policy, prompting DOJ notification in December 2025.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

Skadden Sanctioned Over 'Duplicative, Vexatious Litigation' - Above the Law

Courts impose sanctions on parties filing duplicative litigation across jurisdictions to prevent abuse of the judicial system and protect judicial resources.
fromAbove the Law
2 months ago

Federal Judge Reminds DHS That Court Orders Are Not Optional - Above the Law

The case centers on reimbursement requests submitted by local governments under federal migrant support grants. Those requests were filed before Homeland Security formally terminated the grants, and the law requires agencies to process reimbursements within a statutory 30-day window. Instead of paying up or offering a lawful explanation for denying the requests, the administration froze the funds and then argued that it no longer had to meet the reimbursement deadline because the grants were now in "closeout."
US politics
US politics
fromabovethelaw.com
2 months ago

Morning Docket: 01.23.26

Legal and ethical controversies span court fights, disciplinary actions, lawsuits, and political maneuvers involving high-profile figures, law firms, and government officials.
US politics
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
2 months ago

Protecting Our Right to Sue Federal Agents Who Violate the Constitution

Federal agents increasingly evade constitutional accountability; new statutes like California S.B. 747 are needed to enable damages lawsuits against federal officials.
fromBoston.com
2 months ago

Federal judge in Boston warns Trump against targeting immigration status of students suing him

U.S. District Judge William G. Young ruled Thursday that the government must clearly prove any arrest, detention, or change in immigration status is based on a legitimate reason unrelated to retaliation. Young wrote that any attempt to change the immigration status of plaintiffs in the landmark case against the Trump administration will be presumed to be punishment for speaking out - unless the government can show strong evidence that the action was due to a crime, an expired visa, or another valid reason.
US politics
#judicial-misconduct
Law
fromPatently-O
2 months ago

Hot Bench: Speaking Time and Opinion Writing at the Federal Circuit

Federal Circuit judges’ median oral-argument speaking times vary fivefold, ranging from Chief Judge Moore’s 4.51 minutes to Judge Lourie’s 0.86 minutes.
Law
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Do Federal Officials Really Have "Absolute Immunity"?

Federal agents killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti during an immigration-enforcement operation in Minneapolis, triggering legal conflict over state ability to investigate or prosecute federal officials.
Law
fromAbove the Law
2 months ago

Morning Docket: 02.09.26 - Above the Law

Numerous contentious developments: Fifth Circuit allowing indefinite detention of suspected undocumented migrants, high-profile appearances, campus censorship, market regulation, AI legal-advice concerns, and infrastructure litigation.
fromabovethelaw.com
2 months ago

Morning Docket: 02.02.26 - Above the Law

* Biglaw grapples with Epstein list cameos. [NY Post] * Delaware Supreme Court rewrites settlement to give Elon Musk the kind of personal party he desperately kept asking Jeffrey Epstein for. [Delaware Business Court Insider]
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fromAbove the Law
2 months ago

Morning Docket: 01.28.26 - Above the Law

Legal and political institutions face competing pressures from ICE operations, private equity priorities, and accountability demands, reshaping firm behavior and public responses.
fromFindLaw Blogs
2 months ago

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FindLaw's Legal Blogs bring you the latest legal news and information. Both consumers and legal professionals can find answers, insights, and updates in the blogs listed below. To receive blog posts right in your inbox, subscribe to FindLaw's Newsletters. General Interest FindLaw's consumer blogs feature the best and latest in legal news, information, tips, trends, and analysis.
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fromEmptywheel
2 months ago

Judge Mark Scarsi Refuses Accommodations That Trump's Judges Have Granted

Los Angeles judge insists on keeping Hunter Biden's June 20 trial date despite defense requests for pretrial extensions and overlapping federal filings.
fromABA Journal
2 months ago

Chemerinsky: The Fourth Amendment comes back to the Supreme Court

From 2021 until 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court did not decide one case involving traditional Fourth Amendment issues-such as what is a search, when is a warrant required and whether the exclusionary rule applies. I taught Criminal Procedure - Investigations in the fall semester and struggled to explain to my students why the justices seemingly had lost interest in the Fourth Amendment. But this term, there are two Fourth Amendment cases, one already decided and one to be argued this spring.
Law
fromAbove the Law
2 months ago

How Appealing Weekly Roundup - Above the Law

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. Handling of Pretti investigation has some prosecutors on verge of quitting; Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis, frustrated by the response to the shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, have suggested they could resign en masse": Perry Stein of The Washington Post has this report.
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fromAbove the Law
2 months ago

Legal Ethics Roundup: GA Justices Want Jan 6 Lawyer Disbarred, Legal Independence Principles From Fed Judges, Crypto Complaint Against DOJ Atty & More - Above the Law

Retired judges propose principles of legal independence urging lawyers and institutions to defend the rule of law, reinforce professional duties, and protect First Amendment freedoms.
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