Tough day to have joined the majority in Trump v United States or Trump v Anderson. Pretty disastrous. Oh well, live and learn!
It's #wrongfulconviction day. If your state has an outbreak of potentially wrongful convictions due to govt misconduct, and you want to know how the ACLU, public defenders, and pro bono lawyers achieved mass exonerations in Massachusetts, please feel free to reach out.
A federal judge has ruled that parts of the Texas voter security law SB1 is unconstitutional, and Texas can no longer investigate voter assistance efforts as a criminal act.
The judge ruled on Saturday that Texas can no longer investigate alleged cases of illegal vote harvesting. He said the state law is too vague and restrictive.
Trump's work to normalize violence among his supporters is working, even when the target is a fellow Republican. Look at what they are doing to *a lifelong Republican and two-time Trump voter* who merely said that Haitian workers at his business do a good job: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/u...
People should avoid rushing to judge Adams until we hear from the U.S. Supreme Court about whether, in its view, mayors need the freedom to do crimes in order to discharge their other important duties.
I don't want to pick on the earnest remarks that are now making the rounds. But if SCOTUS practitioners want to wade into SCOTUS controversies, I'd like to see them wrestle — really wrestle — with the concern that the Court is consistently unfair on certain issues and to certain people.
Court: Letting the FBI look through your phone does not mean agents can install an app, go through the two-factor authentication and then search the app they just installed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is such a fascinating story about a man who's utterly determined to terrorize Donald Trump's perceived enemies. A congressman's wife started sleeping with a gun after he told her ,"You’re gonna be fucking molested like you can’t ever imagine." www.reuters.com/investigatio...
ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT: "the odor of burnt cannabis, alone, is insufficient to provide probable cause for police officers to perform a warrantless search of a vehicle" www.illinoiscourts.gov/resources/cf...
Good time to re-share our research indicating that many people generally prefer their state to have a more welcoming approach to immigrants and that the impact on one’s sense of belonging is widespread: www.russellsage.org/publications...
An interdisciplinary team of immigration experts explore the interconnections among immigration policies, attitudes about immigrants and immigration, and sense of belonging in two neighboring