Eric Bennett

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 …

The View From Cornell On November 16, the US Division of Training announced that it had opened an investigation into complaints at Cornell and 6 different faculties of both anti-Semitic …

Louisiana Decide Makes use of a Fog of Legalisms to Stop Consideration of Clemency for Dying Row Inmates. Final week, a federal district court docket in Louisiana refused to grant …

A Message from Bellwether Pennsylvania Elections: Points Different Than Abortion Are Winners, Too! Generally what the mainstream media fails to cowl is as essential as what it does cowl. Ignoring …

Thirty-5 Years of the “Residents’ Structure” of Brazil: A Assessment On October 5, the Structure of the Federative Republic of Brazil celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary. Thirty-five years could also be …

4 Key Takeaways From Trump’s Civil Fraud Testimony Monday Former President Donald Trump was everywhere in the map on the witness stand Monday within the civil fraud case introduced in …

In Extra Unhealthy Information for American Democracy, People Are Divided Over Who Is a Higher Custodian of Democratic Values Sunday’s newspapers brought more bad news for American democracy. If what …

Perhaps Sam Bankman-Fried is an Altruist and a Criminal Final week, a jury convicted Sam Bankman-Fried on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy arising out of his position within the …

Is President Biden Being a Supportive Buddy or a Too-Trusting Enabler within the Aftermath of October 7? Democratic major voters who didn’t assist Joe Biden throughout his bid for the …

Massachusetts Governor Gives a New Method of Serious about Crime, Justice, and Clemency On Tuesday, October 31, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy issued new guidelines that promise to revolutionize the clemency …

Legislation Companies Ought to Not Be Hiring Election Deniers. One Simply Did. Final week, the legislation agency Boies Schiller Flexner introduced that it had hired as a lateral partner Mark …

Proportionality within the Israel-Gaza Battle: A Authorized Primer Politicians, commentators, and the lay publicacross the politicalspectrum have spoken to whether the battle in Israel and Gaza is proportionate. Many have …

When Free Speech Isn’t Free On October 13, the New York Instancesran a front-page story in regards to the response of distinguished donors to the College of Pennsylvania’s response to …

Huge Change to the LSAT Might Alleviate Time Strain for Some Takers However some current competitors, the Regulation College Admission Check (LSAT) stays probably the most broadly used and accepted …

5 Methods Mike Johnson Will Assist Make Hakeem Jeffries Speaker in 2025 On Wednesday, Home Republicans handed Democrats what seems to be like a present by voting in Rep. Mike …

Originalist Causes the Tax in Moore v. United States is Constitutional: Classes from Hylton v. United States (1796) On December 5, the Supreme Court docket will hear arguments in an …

Did SCOTUS Lastly Wake As much as the Menace of State Nullification of Federal Legislation? Bear in mind SB8? That’s the Texas legislation that forbids abortions after roughly six weeks …

The FTC’s Preliminary Coverage Case for Banning All Non-Compete Clauses in Employment Agreements The Federal Commerce Fee (FTC) will doubtless vote in April 2024 on its proposed rule to ban …

Why Donald Trump’s Dangerous Week Issues within the Ongoing Battle to Save American Democracy Final Thursday and Friday introduced some actually dangerous information for Donald Trump. On Thursday, Sidney Powell …

How These In search of Donald Trump’s Disqualification From Working For President Will Plunge the Election Into Chaos and Hand Trump the Presidency Final month within the Atlantic, Harvard Regulation …

Response to Hamas Terror Assault Reveals That Schools and Universities Don’t Know Easy methods to Deal with Jewish College students Responses to Hamas’s October 7 terrorism and ugly slaughter of …

Does the New York Instances Owe Rudy Giuliani an Apology? The Instances lately ran a prolonged account of Giuliani’s ingesting. The ostensible justification was the supposed relevance of Giuliani’s ingesting …

Way forward for Affirmative Motion in Employment Choices The U.S. Supreme Court docket’s current resolution hanging down racial preferences in admission choices at Harvard and North Carolina universities raises appreciable …

Fox Information Host Greg Gutfeld Says the Quiet Half Out Loud: Proper-Wingers Favor Bullets to Ballots It has lengthy been acknowledged that free and honest elections allow for the peaceful …

Senator Bob Menendez’s Indictment Shines an Attention-grabbing Highlight on New Jersey’s U.S. Senate Emptiness-Filling Procedures Now that one U.S. Senate emptiness—that created by the latest demise of Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)—has …

Perhaps the Speaker of the Home Should be a Member of Congress Since final week’s unprecedented ouster of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the Home of Representatives, two main candidates …

What the First Responsible Plea in Trump’s Georgia Prosecution Tells Us About DA Willis’s Technique On Friday, defendant Scott Corridor, a Georgia bail bondsman and political operative, turned the primary …

Dreading the Begin of the Supreme Court docket Time period And so it begins. The start of the time period leaves me very anxious in regards to the harm this …

#MeToo and Good Character Proof: The Risk of #MeToo-Knowledgeable Leniency Letters In scripting this follow-up column about the potential for #MeToo knowledgeable leniency letters, I must grapple with Professor Joe …

Partisan Gerrymandering Case Beneath the New Mexico Structure Nears Crucial Level This is a crucial week for figuring out the destiny of congressional district strains within the state of New …

#Metoo and Good Character Proof: The Risk of #MeToo Knowledgeable Leniency Letters Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’s leniency letters submitted for Danny Masterson’s garnered loads of public outrage. Some counsel …

Mr. Menendez is Presumed Harmless. Senator Menendez is Not. Based on an indictment that was unsealed in federal district court docket in Manhattan final week, New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert …

The Flawed Premise on the Core of the Threats to Impeach Wisconsin Supreme Court docket Justice Janet Protasiewicz Partisan gerrymandering, one of many topics of the Supreme Court docket’s necessary …

2023 Has Introduced Combined Information for Dying Penalty Abolitionists A collection of up-and-down information tales over the previous couple of weeks present the complexity of the trouble to finish the …

What Exactly Did Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis Do Unsuitable? As you’ll have seen, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis wrote character letters in assist of their pal and fellow actor, …

Private Jurisdiction Makes Unusual Bedfellows: An Evaluation of the Supreme Court docket’s Determination in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. Our nomination for probably the most intriguing case of the …

Particular Counsel Jack Smith Calls Out Trump’s Use of Free Speech to Bully and Intimidate His Opponents Since he got here on the nationwide political scene in 2015, Donald Trump …

Texas Re-Fights the Civil Struggle Final week, Federal District Choose David Ezra (appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan) dominated that the state of Texas and its Governor Greg …

Two Many years After 9/11, It’s Wanting Like American Democracy Received’t Survive the 2024 Election American democracy barely survived the 2020 election, and little has occurred since to fortify our …

ChatGPT is Notoriously Dangerous at Authorized Analysis. So Let’s Use it to Educate Authorized Analysis Whereas many legislation college students view ChatGPT and different generative AI instruments as a time-saving …

These Who Downplay Bigotry and Extremism Allow Bigotry and Extremism After the 2016 election, mainstream information organizations like The New York Occasions, The Washington Submit, CNN, and plenty of others …

Contempt of Cop In a a lot youthful life, Rob Hildum was an Assistant District Legal professional in New Orleans. At present, he’s a decide in Washington, D.C., the crowning …

Trump’s Republican Allies Plan to Misuse the Energy of the Purse to Defend Him The MAGA crowd within the Home of Representatives and on the state stage is at it …

Why Keep to Combat a Dropping Battle? (Half Two of a Collection) Over the previous couple of years, an increasing number of folks have been pondering that maybe the American …

The Reply to the Choose’s New Query in Mark Meadows’s Elimination of his Georgia Indictment On Tuesday, federal district court docket choose Steve C. Jones ordered Fulton County District Legal …

Does Range Have a Future? Final week, Stanford Law School announced that Tirien Steinbach had left her publish as affiliate dean for Range, Fairness and Inclusion (DEI). Such a center …

Ron DeSantis and Jim Jordan Provide a Preview of How Republicans Will Politicize Justice in america if Given the Likelihood In an in any other case unremarkable performance in the …

Is Greater Schooling Spending Extreme? In Some Methods Possibly Sure, in Others Maybe Not Two months in the past, I wrapped up an eight-year stint because the Dean of the …

Georgia Defendant Kenneth Chesebro Acquired His Speedy Trial Date; He Might Quickly Lament Not Being Cautious About What He Wished For Rat-a-tat, on Thursday, the tempo within the Fulton County …

Abandoning Precedent: The Case for Bringing ChatGPT into Regulation Faculties The authorized writing lessons required of first-year legislation college students are inclined to polarize college students. Some love authorized writing, …

Trump, Evangelicals, and Why Indictments Don’t Shake Their Help Who will ever overlook the six Republican presidential candidates concurrently pledging to help for President somebody who has been convicted of …

2024 Is Shaping As much as Be the Worst “Maintain Your Nostril” Contest in American Historical past, and That’s Unhealthy Information for the Democratic Celebration and Democracy Itself From second …

The Court docket’s Pause: A Obligatory Change for Victims Some modifications within the regulation are higher late than by no means.

Idaho Choose Opens the Door for an Exploration of the Psychological Cruelty of Capital Punishment From starting to the top, the loss of life penalty course of is rife with …

Combating the Good Combat versus Figuring out When to Transfer On (Half One among a Sequence) Why would anybody voluntarily depart a satisfying, secure, essential job? Why certainly.

Justice Alito is Flawed: Congress Can and Does Regulate the Supreme Courtroom Late final month, the Wall Avenue Journal printed an op-ed by David B. Rivkin Jr. and James Taranto …

Do No Hurt: Texas Court docket Guidelines in Favor of Ladies Harmed by Abortion Ban’s Insufficient Safety for Medical Emergencies Earlier this 12 months, the Heart for Reproductive Rights filed …

Who’s Afraid of the Surveillance State? There’s a nice and necessary guide to be written that will get to the underside of this puzzle: If you’d like everybody to agree …

Clarence Thomas, Donald Trump and the “Tribal View” of Ethics or What Would Abe Fortas Assume About Right this moment’s Scandals? Clarence Thomas has gone so deep into the forest …

Doubts About Mitch McConnell’s Well being Implicate Essential Questions Beneath the Seventeenth Modification With questions concerning the well being of U.S. Senate minority chief Mitch McConnell (R-KY) swirling across the …

Cluster Mine Switch: Cluster F*ck the Cluster Mine Norm? Half IV By means of refresher—In Part I, I defined what cluster munitions are and why the Biden administration determined to …

Donald Trump, Robert Bowers, and the Legal Regulation On successive days final week, a grand jury indicted Donald Trump and a petit jury sentenced Robert Bowers to die. One thing …

Why I Need My College students to Learn Trump’s Newest Indictment Jack Smith’s forty-five page indictment of former President Donald Trump would possibly simply assist revive civics training on this …

Some (Very) Preliminary Musings on the Loper Brilliant Case Subsequent Time period Involving the So-Known as Chevron Deference Doctrine Because the calendar turns from July to August, consideration is correctly …

Why Didn’t the U.S. Bomb Kyoto? I lately visited Kyoto and Hiroshima, Japan. Prior to now, I’ve traveled to Pearl Harbor. On my manner into Kyoto, I learn concerning the …

The Division of Justice Can not Treatment What Ails Memphis The Division of Justice announced final week that it had opened a “sample or observe” investigation into the Metropolis of …

The Actual Issues with Florida Instructing In regards to the “Advantages” of Slavery State instructional requirements for center faculty social research don’t usually make nationwide information. But Vice President Kamal …

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards Says He’s a Loss of life Penalty Opponent. Now He Has a Likelihood to Show It Final March, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced his …

A State Divided Towards Itself: The Implausible “New Illinois” Concept As America appears to be figuratively coming aside on the seams, actions all through the nation to perform literal (geopolitical) …

Cluster Mine Switch: Cluster F*ck the Cluster Mine Norm? Half III Thanks for persevering with on with this collection of posts with me. In Part I, I defined what cluster …