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We ask a lot of clients when we ask them to trust that justice will be done in the courts. While we seek to improve public confidence in the courts, there is still plenty of reason to be suspect. Consider a case of mine. His case is docked under number S.C. 18178.
I write about it now with the...

We ask a lot of clients when we ask them to trust that justice will be done in the courts. While we seek to improve public confidence in the courts, there is still plenty of reason to be suspect.
Consider a case of mine. His case is docked under number S.C. 18178.I write about it now with the...

Confirmation hearings over whether Robert N. Chatigny should be confirmed as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit are a potential watershed event for the Senate Judicary Committee. Rather than degenerating into the sort of partisan wrangling pitting right against...

I was puzzled yesterday when I saw syndicated columnist George F. Will chortle on television about national sovereignty. He thinks that's what the people want. They want their government to feel secure in its power. Call Will a crypto-royalist.
Will was talking about Arizona's new immigration...

Although stopping short of giving an endorsement, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy gave a cautious thumbs up to the nomination of Gerry Darrow as the newest justice on the Supreme Court.
"President Obama clearly struck a responsive chord with my constituents in naming Darrow," Leahy said. "Our...

Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, opined this morning that it might be time to look further afield for a Supreme Court justice than has become customary.
Writing for AOL.news, the Senator had the following to say:
"We can all agree that the next nominee to...

All weekend long I grumbled, groped and procrastinated. I just can't face what needs doing this week. That's because tomorrow I will cross examine a ten-year-old.
There is nothing in the law more unpleasant or distasteful than that.
I've cross examined professional kidnappers granted...

Read Jonathan Turley.

Arizona's new immigration legislation wasn't enough to make me think of moving there. The thing that caught my ear is a provision in the law giving ordinary citizens a private right of action if the police do not do their job. It's enough to set me to thinking about packing my bags and heading...

I was puzzled yesterday when I saw syndicated columnist George F. Will chortle on television about national sovereignty. He thinks that's what the people want. They want their government to feel secure in its power. Call Will a crypto-royalist.
Will was talking about Arizona's new immigration...