Courts & Law
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Time for New York's Jews to take their fight against Bill de Blasio to court
Imagine being trapped in a small New York City apartment with a bunch of kids for months. No school, parks, playgrounds, or access to a car to escape to the suburbs like millions of other New Yorkers. When videos circulated of Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg and Boro Park breaking open the locks on park fences, a friend remarked how surprised she was to see it was the Hasidic Jews who snapped and took matters into their own hands. I couldn’t help but laugh. If you had that many kids cooped up at home with nothing to do for months, wouldn’t you?
Berkeley Law professor: Trump saving the Constitution, 'his greatest service'
Berkeley Law professor John Yoo is very comfortable around controversy. But voting for then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016 was a step too far.
How originalism can end police brutality
Our nation’s history on civil rights has been a story of slow and uneven but also unrelenting progress. Such progress has often been aided by influential pieces of legislation, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1871 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or constitutional amendments such as the Reconstruction Amendments. As we have sadly seen recently, these legal reforms did not end all bigotry in our nation, but they gave minorities the legal tools to defend their civil rights.‘Attack on the First Amendment’: Bolton asks judge to toss Justice Department lawsuit to block book
John Bolton moved to dismiss the Justice Department’s complaint against him late Thursday night as the government battles him to block the sale of the former national security adviser’s book.Trump still 'proud' of Gorsuch nomination following Supreme Court LGBT decision
June 18, 2020 06:05 PM Get ready for slew of religious freedom lawsuits over Supreme Court's gay and transgender ruling
June 18, 2020 04:21 PM John Roberts's DACA decision is a constitutional disaster
June 18, 2020 01:48 PM Trump to unveil new list of conservatives for Supreme Court
June 18, 2020 01:41 PM Trump: Supreme Court rulings are 'shotgun blasts into the face' of conservatives
President Trump used very vivid language to describe his displeasure after two major Supreme Court rulings this week.
Thanks to the Supreme Court for nothing on DACA
After what feels like an eternity, the Supreme Court has finally ruled on the Trump administration's right to rescind former President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
'Cannot resist a police officer': Kayleigh McEnany says Trump wants officer in Rayshard Brooks case to get 'fair shake'
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that President Trump wants the officers involved in the death of Rayshard Brooks to get a "fair shake."Supreme Court blocks Trump from ending Obama-era DACA program
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Trump from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which shields from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrant children who were brought to the United States illegally.Half-brother of black man found hanging in California dies in officer-involved shooting
June 18, 2020 09:55 AM Supreme Court holds in its hands the future of Blaine amendments and religious education
June 18, 2020 09:09 AM Supreme Court must prevent uncompensated theft of Western water
June 18, 2020 12:00 AM The Supreme Court shouldn't have to issue so many emergency stay orders, but under Trump, it does
June 17, 2020 01:49 PM Solicitor General Noel Francisco resigning from Justice Department
U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco is departing from his role in the Justice Department, according to a press release on Wednesday.