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Bill Barr To Become Caporegime With Own Family Within Trump Crime FamilyFebruary 14, 2019 at 1:45 PM Daughter and son-in-law to take key positions protecting Trump from ever facing justice.Tags: Law, Government, Department Of Justice, Donald Trump, Trump, William Barr, Bill Barr 26 people like this. Like Acting AG Whitaker makes the case that "law enforcement works"February 11, 2019 at 3:13 PM Today in Washington, DC, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker delivered these remarks to the National Sheriffs’ Association’s Winter Conference. The structure and specifics of what he had to say is quite similar to the message delivered by former AG Jeff Sessions in similar settings in years past, and here are notable excerpts speaking to federal enforcement efforts:
In the last fiscal year, the Justice Department charged the greatest number of violent crime defendants since we started to t...Tags: Law, Cdc, Washington, America, Fbi, Department Of Justice, Justice Department, Matthew Whitaker, Douglas A Berman, National Sheriffs ' Association, AG Jeff Sessions, AG Whitaker 30 people like this. Like Liability roundupFebruary 11, 2019 at 5:52 AM “Illinois Supreme Court Allows No-Injury Biometric Information Privacy Act Claims in Complete Victory for Plaintiffs’ Bar” [Locke Lord] Google’s “which museum portrait is your selfie like?” an early local casualty [Illinois Policy and generally on the law]
“Class action reform isn’t dead. It’s just not coming from Congress” [Alison Frankel, Reuters]
To get around Daimler v. Bauman line of cases, state statutes now provide that by registering to do business in the state an out-of-state bu...Tags: Google, New York Post, Technology, Law, Congress, Suicide, Uncategorized, Beck, Pennsylvania, New York Times, Department Of Justice, Illinois, Asbestos, Daimler, Class Actions, George Washington Bridge 40 people like this. Like Top 5 KGB operations on U.S. soilFebruary 10, 2019 at 9:02 AM  Tags: UK, New York, Montana, Nazis, Russia, Berlin, New York City, Time, Immigration, America, Los Angeles, Intelligence, History, War, Fbi, Canada 83 people like this. Like Consent decrees: an exchangeFebruary 5, 2019 at 12:05 AM My piece of two weeks ago for National Review about consent decrees, police, and the Jeff Sessions memo (briefly summarized here) drew a detailed response from Radley Balko in the Washington Post, whose writings on police misconduct I often link here. I’ve now responded in a second NR piece, arguing that while there is much common ground to be found on the issues here, I will stick with seeing the memo as generally on the right track in articulating proper limits to the feds’ constitutional role...Tags: Law, Washington Post, Police, Uncategorized, Department Of Justice, Constitutional Law, National Review, Radley Balko, WO writings, Consent Decrees 41 people like this. Like Highlighting how much punishment comes with the misdemeanor processFebruary 4, 2019 at 9:44 AM Tags: New York Post, Texas, Law, US, America, New Jersey, Department Of Justice, Florence, Robert Taylor, San Antonio, US supreme court, McDonald, Richmond Virginia, Barrett, Douglas A Berman, Beaufort County South Carolina 64 people like this. Like SA bail tragedy illustrates how misdemeanors can ruin livesFebruary 3, 2019 at 11:10 AM One of Grits' favorite thinkers on justice topics, Alexandra Natapoff, whose new book about the misdemeanor system, Punishment Without Crime, I hope to review in the coming week, had a column in the New York Post with a Texas anecdote in the lede. It began: Just before Christmas, Janice Dotson-Stephens died in a San Antonio jail. The 61-year-old grandmother had been arrested for trespassing, a class B misdemeanor in Texas. She couldn’t afford the $300 bail, and a mere $30 payment to a bail bonds...Tags: New York Post, Texas, Law, US, America, Department Of Justice, San Antonio, Thompson, Sandra Bland, Harris County, Gritsforbreakfast, Senfronia Thompson, Alexandra Natapoff, Natapoff, Janice Dotson Stephens, Dotson Stephens 3 people like this. Like "Education for Liberation: The Politics of Promise and Reform Inside and Beyond America’s Prisons"February 2, 2019 at 6:20 AM Tags: Law, America, United States, Department Of Justice, Cte, Memphis TN, AEI, Douglas A Berman, Gerard Robinson, Elizabeth English Smith 92 people like this. Like Lawyers Need to Be Able to Identify When Clients Have Experienced AbuseJanuary 29, 2019 at 7:00 AM On Friday (January 25th), The Globe and Mail reported on a new risk-assessment tool being developed by Deepa Mattoo, the legal director of the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic. This much-needed assessment tool joins others that have been recommended or are in development, primarily related to family court matters. While it is important that practising lawyers and judges, among others, learn to recognize the signs of abuse, it is also crucial that law students are prepared to work with client...Tags: Law, Court of appeal, Department Of Justice, Globe, Education & Training, Ontario, National Judicial Institute, Law Commission of Ontario, Deepa Mattoo, Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic, Ontario Women s Directorate, Ontario s Domestic Violence Court Program 34 people like this. Like "Federal criminal justice reform is now law: What comes next?"January 28, 2019 at 2:28 PM The title of this post is the headline of this recent Hill commentary authored by Tim Head, the executive director of the Faith & Freedom Coalition. Here are excerpts:
Now that the FIRST STEP Act is law, the question becomes what is next at the federal level and what policy innovations can state governments develop to continue the national momentum toward a more efficient and effective justice system.
The next order of business for implementation of federal reform is for the U.S. Senate to conf...Tags: Law, Congress, Kentucky, Senate, White House, Pennsylvania, United States, Commission, States, Department Of Justice, Trump, Bureau, Matt Bevin, U S Senate, Tom Wolf, Barr 22 people like this. Like Timely questions on enduringly important topics via The Crime ReportJanuary 25, 2019 at 4:40 AM I have praised and promoted work done over at The Crime Report for many years, and the site remains a daily must-read for criminal justice fans. And in the last few days, TCR has had two new pieces headlined with two questions that are timely and enduring. Here are the headlines, links and brief excerpts:
"Can the U.S. Abolish Life Sentences?" (Q&A with Ashley Nellis)
TCR: You write, “Perhaps the most glaring omission of relevant data was the failure of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS),...Tags: Law, America, Department Of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics BJS, Douglas A Berman, Vincent Schiraldi, Ashley Nellis TCR 35 people like this. Like An Analysis of Title I and Title III of The Music Modernization Act, Part 2 of 2 (Guest Blog Post)January 23, 2019 at 11:59 AM Guest Blog Post by Tyler Ochoa
[This is part 2 of a 2-part series on the Music Modernization Act. Check out part 1 before reading this post.]
The Musical Works Database
One of the most important provisions in the MWM Act is the provision requiring the Collective to “establish and maintain a database containing information relating to musical works (and shares of such works) and, to the extent known, the identity and location of the copyright owners of such works (and shares thereof) and the soun...Tags: Fcc, Law, Congress, Copyright, House, Dmca, Sirius Xm, Department Of Justice, Justice Department, Cornell, Ucla, D, Sirius, Ascap, Copyright Office, U S District Court 36 people like this. Like Canada’s Law Societies Need a National Civil ServiceJanuary 23, 2019 at 7:00 AM  Tags: England, Justice, Law, Wales, Toronto, Canada, Department Of Justice, British Columbia, Ontario, Martin, Supra, Statistics Canada, Monaghan, Law Society, Ontario Court of Appeal, LSO 118 people like this. Like Justice Department revamps consent decree rules: what the press missedJanuary 22, 2019 at 12:10 AM The feds plan to be less heavy-handed in using consent decrees to micromanage states and cities, and there’s a good case for that, I argue at National Review. Alas, as I explain, national media bungled the story in November by characterizing Jeff Sessions’s memo as if it were primarily aimed at reducing oversight of police. “Not once in its seven pages does the word ‘police’ even appear.”
My short piece doesn’t take up the question of how the well-documented problems of consent decrees in other ...Tags: Law, Police, Uncategorized, Department Of Justice, Justice Department, Jeff Sessions, WO writings, Consent Decrees, Federalism, John McGinnis, David Meyer Lindenberg Tim Lynch Scott Greenfield 27 people like this. Like Challengers urge justices to dismiss census case after district court ruling (Updated)January 17, 2019 at 6:21 PM  Tags: Featured, Supreme Court, Law, Commerce, Department Of Justice, Doj, Ross, Gore, Trump, Howe, U S Department of Commerce, Merits Cases, What's Happening Now, Wilbur Ross, John Gore 52 people like this. Like Challengers urge justices to dismiss census case after district court rulingJanuary 17, 2019 at 6:21 PM Tags: Featured, Supreme Court, Law, Commerce, Department Of Justice, Doj, Ross, Gore, Trump, Howe, U S Department of Commerce, Merits Cases, What's Happening Now, Wilbur Ross, John Gore 50 people like this. Like On Emojis And ShutdownsJanuary 15, 2019 at 6:38 PM Here are two concepts that shouldn't fit together, but welcome to 2019.Tags: Podcasts, Law, Government, Department Of Justice, Biglaw, Thinking Like A Lawyer 47 people like this. Like "The Clemency Process Is Broken. Trump Can Fix It."January 15, 2019 at 3:49 PM The title of this post is the title of this notable new Atlantic commentary authored by Rachel Barkow, Mark Holden and Mark Osler. Here are excerpts:
It took six years of intense wrangling to get the First Step Act passed. Clemency reform, however, requires the action of only one man. The president can act alone to fix what Congress did not.
Even the First Step Act’s primary nemesis, Republican Senator Tom Cotton, has acknowledged a role for clemency, saying as part of his attack on the legis...Tags: Law, Obama, Congress, White House, Kanye West, Atlantic, Department Of Justice, South Carolina, Tom Cotton, Willie Horton, Douglas A Berman, Weldon Angelos, Prez Trump, Mark Osler, Alice Johnson Prez Trump, Rachel Barkow Mark Holden 43 people like this. Like Morning Docket: 01.15.19January 15, 2019 at 9:02 AM * States win big victory blocking Trump's birth control rules from taking effect. Now I guess he'll have to build a wall around vaginas too. [Law360]
* Former Sullivan & Cromwell chief John Merow and his wife were killed in an apartment fire on Saturday. [New York Law Journal]
* Quinn Emanuel adds Sandra Moser to co-head the firm's white collar practice. [National Law Journal]
* Are the days of law firm expansion coming to an end? I'm guessing no. [Law.com]
* William Barr will now face the S...Tags: Law, Senate, Department Of Justice, Trump, Sullivan & Cromwell, Quinn Emanuel, New York Law Journal, Morning Docket, Health Care / Medicine, William Barr, John Merow, Sandra Moser 36 people like this. Like Impact on Legal & Public Information of Partial US Government ShutdownJanuary 14, 2019 at 6:33 PM The US federal government has been in partial shutdown since just before Christmas 2018.
There has been a lot of well deserved focus on how the shutdown is affecting the hundreds of thousands of US federal employees who are not being paid. Or air travel. Or the poorly housed. The list goes on.
Many observers are now starting to worry about how this will impact access to various kinds of government and legal information south of the border.
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) issued ...Tags: Law, Congress, US, Department Of Justice, American Association of Law Libraries AALL, Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Archives and Records Administration, Legislative Branch, Legal Information, Legal Services Corporation, Administrative Office of the U S Courts, Government Publishing Office, Congress Law Library of Congress, Library of Congress Law Library of Congress, Government Publishing Office Both 35 people like this. Like Rod Rosenstein Will Spare Bill Barr The Effort Of Pushing Him OutJanuary 9, 2019 at 2:17 PM The Deputy AG was unlikely to survive any Trump nominee.Tags: Law, Government, Department Of Justice, Trump, AG, Rod Rosenstein, Mueller Investigation, Rod Rosenstein Will Spare Bill Barr 32 people like this. Like Morning Docket: 01.04.19January 4, 2019 at 8:36 AM * That was quick! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she'd wait until the Mueller report came out to talk about the possibility of impeaching the president, but one of her colleagues is planning to re-introduce articles of impeachment against Trump on the first day of the new Congress. [CNN]
* The Senate Judiciary Committee has set a confirmation hearing for William Barr, the nominee for U.S. attorney general, on January 15, and he'll get the "same fair and thorough vetting process" as all of his ...Tags: Supreme Court, Law, Congress, Attorney General, Boston, America, House, Nancy Pelosi, Department Of Justice, Joe Arpaio, Donald Trump, Doj, Ageism, Brad Sherman, Trump, Senate Judiciary Committee 8 people like this. Like Non Sequiturs: 12.30.18December 30, 2018 at 5:30 PM * In 2018, what did Donald Trump talk about when he talked about the courts? Adam Feldman dives into the data to find out. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Speaking of President Trump and the judiciary, he continues to appoint federal judges at a record pace -- but the Democrats are doing everything they can to slow down his progress. [Bench Memos / National Review]
* If you care at all about affordable housing, then you should be heartened by these developments in the fight against exclusionary zoning, a...Tags: Real Estate, Technology, Supreme Court, Law, Scotus, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Federal Judges, Department Of Justice, Donald Trump, Justice Department, Litigation, Legal Technology, Litigators, Trump, Adam Feldman 40 people like this. Like Justice Department Lawyers Unable To Do Their Jobs Thanks To Government ShutdownDecember 27, 2018 at 1:28 PM Always helpful when the government screws up the way the justice system functions.Tags: Law, Government, Department Of Justice, Government Shutdown, Justice Department, Quote Of The Day 31 people like this. Like Spotlighting the enduring challenges posed by risk-assessment mechanisms built into FIRST STEP ActDecember 27, 2018 at 8:07 AM LawProf Brandon Garrett has this important new Slate commentary headlined "The Prison Reform Bill’s Implementation Will Be Tricky; Here’s how to ensure it’s a success." I recommend the piece in full, and here are excerpts:
The First Step Act, the federal prison reform bill that President Donald Trump signed into law on Friday, represents a bipartisan and major effort at making the criminal justice system fairer. This step will only be a baby step, however, if the engine that drives the entire ...Tags: Law, Senate, Virginia, Department Of Justice, Donald Trump, American Law Institute, Michelle Alexander, Douglas A Berman, U S Sentencing Commission, LawProf Brandon Garrett, Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission, John Monahan Alexander Jakubow Anne Metz 13 people like this. Like Morning Docket: 12.26.18December 26, 2018 at 8:36 AM * The D.C. Circuit awarded more than $501M in damages to the family of Otto Warmbier, the student who tortured so badly in North Korea that he was left deaf, blind, unable to speak, and died shortly after he returned home. [New York Times]
* Trump's DOJ has filed many emergency SCOTUS requests to bypass lower courts, but here are the ones to watch: the asylum ban, the DACA wind-down, the transgender military ban, the citizenship census, and kids' climate change. [PBS NewsHour]
* Ex-district ...Tags: Crime, Supreme Court, Law, Sexual Assault, North Korea, Jay-z, Attorney General, Diversity, New York Times, Department Of Justice, Kevin Spacey, Doj, Trump, Boston Globe, Frank Underwood, D.C. Circuit 43 people like this. Like Justices release February argument calendarDecember 21, 2018 at 3:55 PM  Tags: New York, Featured, Maryland, Supreme Court, Law, Washington, United States, Commerce, Celtic, Va, Department Of Justice, Ross, Gray, Gore, American Legion, Trump 56 people like this. Like Justices rebuff government on asylum banDecember 21, 2018 at 3:56 PM  Tags: Featured, Supreme Court, Law, Obama, Congress, Mexico, White House, Reagan, United States, Department Of Justice, Donald Trump, Clinton, Trump, Bush, John Roberts, 9th Circuit 56 people like this. Like |
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