Category: Law/Justice

Police arrest teacher for allegedly ‘touching,’ ‘making out’ with 11-year-old student — just months before her wedding

AM Edition May 4, 2024 TRENDING NOW Pastor shocks congregation with news of wife’s sudden death. Now police are investigating, and her family is speaking out. Did Congress really just ‘criminalize Christianity’ or make parts of the New Testament illegal? MORE STORIES THAT MATTER Al Sharpton questions Democrats’ […]

Textual Frustration

For the Review’s May 23 issue, former Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer makes the case against textualism and originalism as legal philosophies: To insist upon a static, unchanging reading of legal texts can only make more difficult the task of fitting law to human life. To rely on […]

Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2024

By Wendy Sawyer and Peter Wagner   Tweet this March 14, 2024 Press release Sections The big picture 10 Myths High costs of low-level offenses Youth, immigration & involuntary commitment Beyond the Pie: Community supervision, poverty, age, race, and gender Necessary reforms Sources Can it really be true that […]

‘I know the law better than you’: New York district attorney caught on bodycam video cursing out cop, defying traffic stop

AM Edition April 29, 2024 TRENDING NOW Watch: Bill Maher’s awkward exchange with Don Lemon prompts Caitlyn Jenner to blast ex-CNN anchor as privileged, wealthy, entitled Actor Russell Brand says he is getting baptized as a Christian: ‘I’m taking the plunge’ MORE STORIES THAT MATTER ‘I’m the victim’:Real-life […]

‘Historic mistake’: Law professor takes apart Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump — then predicts the outcome

Trending story April 24, 2024 ‘Historic mistake’: Law professor takes apart Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump — then predicts the outcome Jed Handelsman Shugerman, a law professor at Boston University, thinks Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Donald Trump is a “historic mistake.”Shugerman made that conclusion after […]

In Defense of Trump

The four criminal cases against Donald Trump are incredibly consequential, but information from the Trump side has been sparse to nonexistent. Reporters diligently ask Trump’s lawyers for interviews, and they get back a blast of prefab bluster from the former president’s campaign staff about how he “continues to […]

Leave Justice Thomas Alone

Good morning, Leftists are claiming that Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from the presidential immunity case next week. They claim that because his wife is a longtime political activist who raised questions about the 2020 election, he has no place on the court. But that is only […]

Police, in the Real World

By Fred Reed April 15, 2024Americana, Cops, Uncategorized For years I worked as police reporter for the Washington Times, spending long hours in squad cars in various cities getting to know cops well. Now I listen to nice white people in the suburbs, and self-assured voices from NPR, […]

The fall of the time bandit

INSIDE SCOOP Richard Chance for Business Insider The time bandit A luxury watch dealer was accused of ripping off his clients. Reddit brought him to justice. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — […]

Shooting Holes in Originalism

Sponsored by Reaktion Books Duncan Hosie Bad Facts, Bad Law In a recent Supreme Court oral argument about disarming domestic abusers, originalism itself was put to the test. Ludwika Włodek Waiting for a New Poland Five weeks after the opposition won Poland’s legislative elections, its supporters are looking […]

SBF goes down

November 3, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Happy Friday! Start your day off with this delightful story from Katie Notopoulos — a new addition to Insider — poking fun at how X CEO Linda Yaccarino “tweets like your aunt texts.”   In today’s big story, […]