Eric Bennett

Political Animals: What Kristi Noem’s Canine Killing Says In regards to the Remainder of Us South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has lengthy been campaigning to be Donald Trump’s operating mate …

Of Mass Torts, Multidistrict Litigation, and Collateral Estoppel: Notes on Justice Thomas’s Dissent from the Denial of Certiorari in E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Abbott As the …

What Campus Protests Could Do to the 2024 Presidential Election It has been a very long time since there have been protests on faculty campuses nationwide and worldwide. However what …

Why Even Ostensibly Peaceable Expressive “Encampments” at Universities Are Not Immune From Restrictions Beneath the First Modification, With Particular Consideration to Some Analogies to Abortion Clinics Debates in regards to …

What Oklahoma Did to Clayton Lockett Ten Years In the past Modified the Nationwide Dialog About Botched Executions Ten years in the past, on April 29, 2014, the state of …

Israeli Accountability to Civilians: World Central Kitchen Half II The primary post on this sequence offered an in depth account of the World Central Kitchen strike and the calls for …

Can a Public Excessive College Punish a Scholar for Asking a Query that Refers to “Unlawful Aliens”? Half Two in a Two-Half Sequence On this, the second of a two-part …

Can a Public Excessive College Punish a Scholar for Asking a Query that Refers to “Unlawful Aliens”? Half One in a Two-Half Collection The 2 of us simply completed co-teaching …

Mike Johnson’s Go to to Columbia Ups the Ante within the Proper-Wing Assault on Universities Speaker Mike Johnson’s go to to Columbia College on Wednesday was a transparent, but nonetheless …

Ten Suggestions for Success on Regulation Faculty Exams Each a number of years, round this time within the spring semester, I attempt to gather and replace recommendation to supply to …

World Central Kitchen Strike, Half I: Investigation and Doable Warfare Crimes The Israeli Protection Pressure (IDF)’s assault on a World Central Kitchen humanitarian assist convoy has rightfully garnered worldwide consideration …

Restoring Confidence in Elections: The ALI’s Well timed Assertion on Moral Requirements The hotly contested 2020 Presidential Election was full of complaints—not solely concerning the election outcomes, but additionally concerning …

Federal Antidiscrimination Regulation Does Not Require Campus Crackdowns Having apparently discovered a lesson from the destiny that befell the presidents of Harvard and the College of Pennsylvania after they testified …

Black Individuals Pay a Excessive Value for this Nation’s Illusory Pursuit of Humane Executions Because the finish of the nineteenth century, the US has been on a quest to discover …

The Federal Decide Who Offered Justice: A Assessment of Gary Stein’s Biography of Martin Manton The famend judges who’ve served on the US Court docket of Appeals for the Second …

One other Campus Episode of Protestors Shouting (and Shutting) Down an Invited Speaker: Consultant Jamie Raskin’s Endowed Lecture on the College of Maryland A 12 months in the past, virtually …

SEC Expands Employer Cutbacks in Compensation for Inaccurate Compensation Awards The U.S. Securities and Change Fee (SEC) continues to broaden the usage of forfeiture of govt compensation as a regulatory …

Arizona and Abortion: The Calendar Is Mendacity When It Reads the Current Instances Final week, the Arizona Supreme Courtroom upheld an 1864 regulation that bans abortions and criminally punishes medical …

The Cruelty of Punishment With out Function Final Tuesday, Brian Dorsey was put to death by the state of Missouri. His execution served no legit penological goal.

Current Headlines Affirm the Inadequacy of the Supreme Court docket’s Reasoning in Trump v. Anderson In two of my final three Verdict columns (this one after which this one co-authored …

How Not to Restore Public Confidence within the Supreme Court docket It’s hardly a secret that public confidence within the Supreme Court docket has sunk perilously low. One way or …

President Biden’s Cafeteria Is Open to Everybody Wilton Cardinal Gregory, who’s the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., lately known as President Joe Biden a “cafeteria Catholic.” Meaning he follows some parts …

Judges, Heretics, and Capital Punishment As you’ll have seen, the Legal professional Basic of Oklahoma filed a motion asking that the Oklahoma Court docket of Felony Appeals decelerate the tempo …

Indiana Courtroom Finds a Proper to Abortion on Spiritual Grounds Final week, an Indiana appeals courtroom dominated in favor of a bunch of plaintiffs who challenged the state’s restrictive abortion …

California Prosecutor Seeks Sentence Reductions for Demise Row Inmates. Different Prosecutors Ought to Comply with Swimsuit Final week, Jeff Rosen, the District Legal professional in California’s Santa Clara County, asked …

Who Trusts the Intelligence Group? The Rand Company not too long ago published a prolonged report on bias within the Intelligence Group. The report summarizes the big literature on this …

Assessing the Legality of Israel’s al-Shifa Hospital Complicated Operation Yesterday, Israel withdrew from the al-Shifa hospital complicated after its fourth raid on the ability through the Israel-Hamas warfare. Israel articulated …

Courts Have to Reply to Trump’s Efforts to Intimidate Judges and Undermine Judicial Legitimacy On Thursday, Donald Trump crossed one other line in his persevering with effort to discredit anybody …

Trump Desires 2024 to Be a Nostalgia Journey. Biden Ought to Not Take the Bait Elections are supposed to be about the future. Candidates provide their visions and plans for …

The Supreme Court docket’s Misplaced Emphasis on Uniformity in Trump v. Anderson (and Bush v. Gore) Earlier this month, in Trump v. Anderson, the U.S. Supreme Court docket overturned a …

Election Denialism 2024, Spring Version Donald Trump is at it once more. Because the 2024 presidential marketing campaign heats up, he is already warning that there shall be widespread fraud …

Judicial Chaos is a Symptom. (Principally) Asymmetrical Polarization is the Illness On Tuesday, the Supreme Court docket declined to intervene within the aptly named Texas v. United States. The case …

Delaying Trump’s Trials Is What Savvy Democrats Ought to Have Wished All Alongside The unchallenged consensus amongst political analysts and authorized pundits is that Donald Trump advantages each time there’s …

Georgia Courtroom Case Exams the Limits of Execution Secrecy in the USA Georgia plans to place Willie James Pye to demise on March 20, within the state’s first execution since …

Scandoval: Revenge Pornography and Advanced Victims For these of you not accustomed to Scandoval, the fact tv scandal that dominated information protection this previous yr, chances are you’ll not have …

Shrinkflation, Inflation, and Local weather Change Due to the media feeding frenzy after Special Counsel Robert Hur inappropriately described President Joe Biden as “a well-meaning, aged man with a poor …

14th Modification Disqualification Determination Saves Trump however Damages the Supreme Court docket The March 4 United States Supreme Court docket decision that Donald Trump couldn’t be disqualified beneath the phrases …

The Execution of Ivan Cantu Is a Reminder of Why We Execute the Harmless and At all times Will Final Wednesday, the state of Texas doubtless executed an harmless particular …

One other Botched Deadly Injection, One other Official Refusal to Settle for Duty for Failure within the Execution Course of One other deadly injection gone awry. The story is as …

Was the Federal District Court docket Appropriate in Dismissing Disney’s Speech-Retaliation Case In opposition to Florida Officers? Within the area under, we increase and start to research a number of …

Of Embryos, Elections, and Elephants: Are Rights At all times Zero-Sum? Final week’s resolution by the Alabama Supreme Court docket in LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C., is most …

Alabama Ought to Not Be Allowed to Carry Out One other Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution David Phillip Wilson is on Alabama’s loss of life row having been convicted and sentenced for …

The World Courtroom Lacks Any Believable Foundation for Directing Provisional Measures In opposition to Israel Beneath the Genocide Conference On December 29, 2023, referencing the continued battle between Israel and …

“Extrauterine Kids” and Different Nonsense Wrought by the Fetal Personhood Motion In a weird ruling, the Alabama Supreme Courtroom not too long ago held that frozen embryos are kids for …

The Blood of Each Little one Hamas’ cruel assault and Israel’s predictable response have produced a completely new stage of partisan fury. For months, I’ve tried unsuccessfully to seize what …

The Fuel Chamber, 100 Years of Cruelty 100 years in the past this month, the primary fuel chamber execution was carried out in the United States. On February 8, 1924, …

The Supreme Courtroom’s Oral Argument in Trump v. Anderson: The Courtroom’s Seeming Failure to Perceive Some Primary Beginning Factors Final week’s Supreme Courtroom oral argument in Trump v. Anderson was …

Trump Lawyer Reads the Structure Like a Secret Code Requiring Decryption Throughout final week’s Supreme Court docket oral argument in Trump v. Anderson, a majority of the Justices appeared more …

Robert Hur’s Report on Biden Reveals How Ageism Works Ageism is pervasive and ugly. Because the American Psychological Affiliation (APA) says, it is likely one of the “final socially acceptable …

Federal Jurisdiction and the Restricted Legal responsibility Firm: Ought to the Range Statute be Amended? The intersection of procedural and company regulation takes on tactical immediacy on the subject of …

Oklahoma’s New Execution Plan Highlights the Magnitude of America’s Dying Penalty Issues On January 30, Oklahoma’s Legal professional Common Gentner Drummond and Steven Harpe, Director of Oklahoma Division of Corrections …

Look Away: How the Supreme Courtroom Might Set Apart Trump’s Disqualification for Rebel below the Fourteenth Modification It’s 2028. Donald J. Trump, nearing the top of his second time period …

Tragedy, Foresight and the Carceral State As lots of you’ve gotten most likely seen, the State of Michigan has charged Jennifer and James Crumbley with involuntary manslaughter. They’re the dad …

Why a Current Federal Lawsuit Filed by Republican Social gathering Officers Difficult Mississippi’s Strategy to Counting Ballots in Federal Elections Lacks Any Important Likelihood of Success Final week the Republican …

Ought to Dying Penalty Abolitionists Attempt to Make the Dying Penalty Extra Humane? Final week, Kenneth Eugene Smith grew to become the primary particular person in america to be executed …

Has the Justice Division Simply Issued a Warning to the CIA? Late final 12 months, the Justice Division introduced that it had charged 4 Russian officers with the torture of …

One other New Execution Methodology, One other Botched Execution I am in the grim business of studying botched executions, and currently, tragically, enterprise has been brisk. Final Thursday’s effort by …

Why Some Sports activities Journalists Could Wish to Go to Legislation College Earlier than They Opine In regards to the Legislation: The Misguided Criticism of the College of Illinois and …

Insurgent Yell: Why a Civil Conflict Modification Has Donald Trump Preventing to Maintain His Title on the Presidential Poll Say what you’ll about Donald Trump, he’s a prodigious generator of …

The Supreme Courtroom Ought to Use the Richard Glossip Case To Say That the Structure Forbids Executing the Harmless Yesterday, the Supreme Courtroom announced that it could hear the attraction …

The Supreme Court docket Will get a New Alternative to Oppose Racism in America’s Demise Penalty Subsequent month, the Supreme Court docket will think about whether or not to grant …

Trump and Home Republicans’ Heads-I-Win-Tails-You-Lose View of Impeachment The U.S. Structure authorizes the Home of Representatives to question and the Senate to take away the President, Vice President, and all …

Massachusetts Supreme Court docket Takes an Vital Step within the Battle to Finish Life With out Parole Sentences For folks against the dying penalty in the USA, life with out …

The Unbelievable, Inconsistent, Incoherent Authorized Arguments About Presidential Immunity Made by Donald Trump’s Lawyer Throughout Tuesday’s oral argument earlier than america Circuit Courtroom of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, attorneys …

Alabama’s Plan to Use Nitrogen Hypoxia to Kill Kenneth Smith Attracts Worldwide Condemnation America stands virtually alone amongst constitutional democracies in its use of capital punishment. This helps clarify why, …

Volunteering to Die: A Shopper’s Agony and a Lawyer’s Dilemma An article in The New York Occasions Journal just lately examined the moral dilemma dealing with psychological well being suppliers …

This Is a Good Time to Revisit Mitch McConnell’s Jurisprudence and Ideas About Presidential Immunity There’s a well-known approach in racing and biking during which one driver or rider stays …

Reflections on the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket’s Current Invalidation of Non-Contiguous State Legislative District Strains, With Particular Consideration to the Ruling’s Relevance, If Any, to the Unbiased State Legislature Concept …

The Street Not Taken: In 2023 Two Dying Penalty States Provide Individuals a Clear Alternative As 2023 involves an in depth, the US continues to be an outlier nation in …

The Non secular Liberty Step Too Far That May Destroy the Frequent Good If We Let It The vacations are when many people collect collectively and rejoice love and kindness …

Utah Choose Clears the Means for the First Firing Squad Execution in Extra Than a Decade Ralph Leroy Menzies, who has been on Utah’s death row for 35 years, has …

One other Unhealthy Argument Towards the Software of Part 3 of the Fourteenth Modification to President Trump: Half Two of a Two-Half Sequence In my final column, Part One on …

Dangerous Arguments Towards the Utility of Part 3 of the Fourteenth Modification Towards President Trump: Half One among a Two-Half Sequence There are numerous tough authorized and philosophical questions surrounding …

If and When American Democracy Dies, Younger Individuals Might Be to Blame Day by day, or so it appears, Individuals experience assaults on democracy that might have been unimaginable up …

A Vacation Information to Donald Trump’s Newest Circumstances on the Supreme Courtroom As a lot of the nation gathers with household and buddies to have fun the vacations, the Supreme …

The Legal guidelines of Warfare Every day brings new accounts of tragedy from Israel and Gaza. Cheap folks agree that the atrocities Hamas dedicated on October 7—deliberate, videotaped killings of …

Alabama Acknowledges Risks of Nitrogen Hypoxia Executions However Desires to Carry One Out Anyway On January 25, Alabama intends to place Kenneth Smith to loss of life utilizing nitrogen hypoxia …

Justices Thomas and Alito Need a Constitutional Proper to Pray Away the Homosexual Earlier this week the Supreme Courtroom denied a petition for a writ of certiorari in a case …

Going to the Altar: Lisa Sarnoff Gochman’s Guide on the Supreme Court docket On the ALTAR of the Appellate Gods: Arguing earlier than the US Supreme Court docket, by Lisa …

Courts Must Shortly Get rid of New Makes an attempt to Legitimize the Imperial Presidency A half-century in the past, the famend historian Arthur Schlesinger warned of the rise of …

Sandra Day O’Connor’s Legacy: A Beacon of Judicial Restraint and Independence within the Supreme Courtroom Immediately’s embattled Justices of the Supreme Courtroom have a lot to study from Sandra Day …

Unhealthy and Worse Methods for the Authorities to Lose the SEC SCOTUS Case Final week the Supreme Courtroom heard oral argument in Securities and Trade Fee (SEC) v. Jarkesy, a …

Expensive College students, I Don’t Care What You Suppose There has all the time been a number of conservative handwringing about brainwashed faculty college students, however the criticism has ratcheted …

God’s Enduring Irony In my writing, I’m given to quite a lot of expansive language that sounds good however calls for scrutiny. I usually say, as an example, that in …

Supreme Courtroom’s Palms-Off Perspective Contributes to Rising Public Doubts in regards to the Demise Penalty Final Friday, the Demise Penalty Info Heart issued its year-end report. The message is blended.

How Necessary is the Eighth Circuit’s Current Ruling that the Voting Rights Act Does Not Comprise a Personal Proper of Motion? Part 1983 and Ex Parte Younger as Workarounds A …

The 12 months’s Worst Authorized Resolution: 2023 Version As soon as once more, there are numerous candidates for the worst authorized resolution of the yr. There are, in reality, too …

A Purple Warning for Justice for Survivors Whereas studying in regards to the current 71st Purple Mass on the St. Louis Cathedral in Louisiana, I seen six of the seven …

This Is Why I Have Religion within the Way forward for america Regardless of the Unwell Winds of Fascism and Christian Nationalism It looks like america is being stalked by …

May Congress Resolve the Supreme Court docket’s Disqualification Downside? Final week the Supreme Court docket launched a Code of Conduct signed by all 9 Justices. The Court docket’s assertion previous …

Donald Trump’s Authorized Technique Attracts its Inspiration from the 1969 Trial of the Chicago Seven Politics, it’s mentioned, makes strange bedfellows. And infrequently that maxim is helpful in explaining the …