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Nov 19, 2023
Trump loses bid for mistrial in civil suit
No surprise here. Trump's attorneys had requested the mistrial Wednesday, alleging bias by Judge Arthur Engoron's bench. Engoron in a...
Nov 18, 2023
Evers, Vos don't want school voucher lawsuit to start at SCOW
Who thought Gov. Tony Evers and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos could agree on something like this? They argue that the case should start in...
Nov 15, 2023
Here's a unique defense for the next time you attack the spouse of the speaker of the House
No, no, it really had nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi's job duties. Now, facing trial a year later, the 43-year-old Canadian’s lawyers...
Nov 14, 2023
SCOTUS declines to hear challenge to 3-year solitary confinement term
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court’s liberal minority dissented on Monday to a decision to leave a lower court ruling in place that said...
Nov 14, 2023
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel eyeing 2025 SCOW bid
A source with knowledge of the former AG’s thinking says Schimel has been traveling the circuit in recent months with an eye toward a...
Nov 14, 2023
"Everybody vs. Racism" can't be a trademark, U.S. Court of Appeals says
It's not used to identify the maker or seller of a specific product, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals said. Reuters has the story.
Nov 14, 2023
Look! A SCOTUS ethics code! Without any enforcement mechanism!
The eight-page code says the justices “should comply” with a set of lower court regulations that limit what gifts federal judges and...
Nov 10, 2023
Senate confirms Biden's 150th federal judge
Read it at Democracy Docket.
Nov 10, 2023
Pennsylvania's record Supreme Court race spending doesn't touch Wisconsin's
There was about $22 million in spending. Pikers. The total spent is likely to be roughly half of what was spent in Wisconsin — a race...
Nov 10, 2023
For folks who say the justices did nothing wrong...
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee force a delay in subpoenaing Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow, financial benefactors of SCOTUS...
Nov 10, 2023
Roggensack ordered to turn over impeachment records
Former SCOW Justice Patience Roggensack ordered to cough 'em up. Not so sure about the reasoning here unless the records are sent to...
Nov 7, 2023
A quarter of federal courts have always been, and remain, all White
The Democracy Docket is talking about judges. Strikingly, of the 94 district courts across our country, 25 have never had a non-white...
Nov 7, 2023
States sue over mail-order abortion/miscarriage pill
The suit was filed in Texas, of course. From Courthouse News Service: (CN) — A coalition of three red states sued the Food and Drug...
Nov 7, 2023
Arguments today in huge SCOTUS gun case
Should domestic abusers have access to guns? It might just depend on what White men believed in 1782. NBC has a story.
Nov 6, 2023
Trump's team goes after court staff; gets gagged by the judge
Justice Engoron ordered Trump’s lawyers to knock it off already, but the melee continued today with Kise insisting that he had a First...
Nov 6, 2023
Louisiana court was rotten to the core; the rot was covered up
An amazing story in ProPublica. Judges don't particularly like prisoner petitions because most of them aren't very good in so many ways....
Nov 1, 2023
Judge who led warrantless search not entitled to immunity, appeals court says
Most judges, fortunately, would never consider doing what West Virginia Judge Louise Goldston did. The ABA Journal has the amazing,...
Nov 1, 2023
Senate panel wants to hear from Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow
The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to learn more about their gift-giving to SCOTUS Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. “I will...
Nov 1, 2023
Texas can just keep slicin' 'em up
A judge ordered the Biden administration to leave the state's border razor wire in place. AP has the story.
Nov 1, 2023
SCOTUS wrestles with online public official / First Amendment issue
It ain't easy, folks! Story at Vox.
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