President Trump called it “disgraceful” that a list of questions that the special counsel investigating Russian election interference wants to ask him was “leaked” to the news media, the Associated Press reports. The New York Times published the nearly four dozen questions given to Trump’s...
Yesterday the court released orders from the justices’ conference last Friday, adding three merits cases to its docket for next term. Amy Howe covers the order list for this blog; her coverage first appeared at Howe on the Court. For The Washington Post, Robert Barnes...
Those who loathe and those who celebrate May 1968 agree it was a defining moment for Western democracy in its late modern form....
How should we think about the relationship between the US Constitution and the law of nations?...
The petition of the day is: Andersen v. Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri 17-1340 Issue: Whether the provisions of the Medicaid Act which require participating states to include in their plans the ability of eligible individuals to obtain services from any “qualified” provider, 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(23),...
Santa María la Real de La Almudena cathedral, viewed from the Parque De La Montaña in Madrid The final stop on The D&O Diary’s European assignment last week was a brief sojourn in Madrid, Spain’s capital city. More than 3 million people live in the sprawling...
Along with all of the other risks arising from companies’ increasing dependence on electronics communications and data storage technology has come not only the risks of a data breach caused by a hacker, but also the risk of a company’s transfer of funds by one...
The Supreme Court announced today that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who injured her left shoulder in a fall at her home earlier this month, will undergo “reverse total shoulder replacement surgery” tomorrow morning. In a press release issued this afternoon, the court’s public information office indicated...
U.S. prosecutors charged 10 people, including four Chinese nationals, with selling large quantities of fentanyl to Americans as part of an alleged international money laundering conspiracy, the Washington Post reports. It was a five-year conspiracy that involved 30 separate aliases, such as “Phantom Pharma” and...
Like many rural areas, central and southern Delaware had no place for people to get withdrawal management services before a clinic in Harrington, De., opened in 2015. It quickly saw there was high demand. When the center looked for money to expand, it found an...