Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he will block bipartisan legislation intended to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by President Trump, the Los Angeles Times reports. “I’m the one who decides what we take to the floor,” McConnell told Fox News,...
Seven dead bodies tend to focus the attention. But don’t count on it — not if they are dead men behind bars. In South Carolina. In an election year. Seven inmates were stabbed and beaten to death and 17 injured in eight hours of nightmarish rioting at...
I distinctly remember the crackling sound of the radio as my father listened to baseball games on many Saturday afternoons. Dad was a lifelong, die-hard Cincinnati Reds fan. In all his 45 years, I can count on one hand the times he missed a Reds game. Win...
A California law professor is calling for more police accountability for the thousands of domestic pets gunned down by law enforcement each year, suggesting that states mandate reporting of these lethal incidents to the FBI. Accurate data do not exist, but according to Department of Justice...
There are two cases on the court’s argument docket this morning. The first is Washington v. United States, in which the justices will consider the scope of tribal fishing rights. Miriam Seifter previewed the case for this blog. Jonathan Kim and Eugene Temchenko have a...
There seems to be an inevitable erosion of limits to military power in the United States, and Rosa Brooks helps us understand how this happened....
What might explain the rise of illiberal views among putatively liberal people?...
As I have previously noted, the elevated number of securities class action lawsuits against life sciences companies was an important factor in the increase of securities lawsuit filings in 2017. The significant volume of securities suits involving life sciences companies has been the subject of...
Anyone who thought that just because one member of the Supreme Court had invited a test case about whether to overrule Quill Corp. v. North Dakota meant that every justice was prepared to do so quickly got a reality check this morning. In South Dakota v....
The petition of the day is: Casey v. United States 17-1251 Issue: Whether a court may grant a federal habeas petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson v. United States, which held that a sentence enhanced under the “residual clause” of the Armed Career Criminal Act violated the...