When SCOTUS took up the cases, many feared the worst from a Court that is conservative-heavy. The...
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Qualified Immunity, a blockbuster summer for the Supreme Court, lawyers going to lawyer, and a $67 million...
Somewhere along the way, Qualified Immunity was twisted to shield officers from consequences of actions no one...
People would be better off realizing how often a Supreme Court decision rests on a legal technicality...
The confrontation clause — the right to face one’s accuser — is among the most well-known of...
A bad situation gets worse
The ghoulish ritual of wielding the health & mortality of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg around...
It became readily apparent that the [Kavanaugh] fight was not about his judicial philosophy or whether the...
This movie will end like the Gorsuch show did, the outcome having been scripted with the 2016...
Politico/Morning Consult have some polling data out, taken after the Kavanaugh SCOTUS pick, and Sixty-one percent support...
Burt Likko makes an ambitious proposal.
The predictable split of the Court on this matter portends the inevitable split between the left and...
Tipping point. An idea whose time has come. Don't get caught on the wrong side of history....
Ignorance is not only ignorance, and we need to understand why others make the mistakes they do.
Never before can I recall the Order List being more interesting.
A preview of selected cases appearing on the United States Supreme Court's docket for the 2016-2017 Term....
History repeats, cycles become complete... Word to the (partisan) drumbeat.
The Supreme Court adjourns for the Term with decisions about redistricting, air pollution, and executions. Burt Likko...
The legal writing in Obergefell v. Hodges is both a model and a caution for future writers,...
Chief Justice Roberts was nearly silent during oral argument, and then wrote the 6-3 majority opinion in...