#legal-dissent

#legal-dissent

The Department of Education's failure to properly process discharge applications from vulnerable and sick borrowers is reprehensible. We are simply asking the Department to review their applications on the merits, as is their right.

The proposal is the North Carolina GOP's latest attack on the state bar, a government agency that regulates lawyers. If this proposal becomes law, the same Republicans who have targeted Democratic justices with bogus ethics charges will control the committee that decides when lawyers violate ethics rules.

In March 2026, a California jury found in favour of a plaintiff (identified by the court-protected name 'KGM' or 'Kaley') who had sued Meta and Google for deliberately targeting children like her with addictive design.

Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, has dropped its defamation claim against the Guardian and two other defendants regarding a report on federal investigations into $8 million in payments.

The law prohibits 'any program, curriculum, test, survey, questionnaire, promotion, or instruction relating to gender identity or sexual orientation' in kindergarten through sixth grade, which critics argue targets LGBTQ+ content.

A subpoena is simply a command to a witness to provide relevant information, if they have any. As we sit here right now, former attorney general Pam Bondi has the exact same information that she had a week ago when she was still the sitting AG.

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.

A student-led coalition has gathered more than 2,600 signatures from law students, legal academics, and law student organizations across 109 law schools calling on Congress to pass the Federal Officer Accountability Act. As the Department of Homeland Security disappears suspected migrants without due process, arbitrarily harasses citizens, and point blank kills innocent people on camera, a shocked public has learned what lawyers have talked about for years: the government has stacked the immunity deck to functionally shield law enforcement from accountability.