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5 Years Since the Jan. 6 Insurrection
Protesters supporting U.S. President Donald Trump break into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Credit - Win McNamee—Getty Images On Jan. 6, 2021, I was in the Chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives as violent insurrectionists attacked our nation’s Capitol, bent on interrupting Congress in carrying out its constitutional responsibilities and doing serious harm to Vice President Pence, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and members of Congress.
Why Justices Should Protect Public From Bump Stocks
ADVERTISEMENT Don't want ads? Subscribe or login now. By Douglas Letter (January 17, 2024, 4:49 PM EST) -- This spring, a challenge to federal agency power will be heard before the U.S. Supreme Court in Garland v. Cargill. The decision in this case will have life-altering, perhaps even life-shattering, effects on our country.... A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of fast-moving legal issues, trends and developments so you can act with speed and confidence.
Trump doesn’t need to assert executive privilege to keep Robert Mueller’s findings hidden.
Heartburn spread across Washington after the president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani suggested that the White House might assert executive privilege as a way to bury at least parts of special counsel Robert Mueller’s much-anticipated report at the end of his investigation. The way ahead for that report is, to be sure, uncertain. Worrying—especially right now—about an assertion of executive privilege seems premature and misplaced.
Rudy's Red Herring: Mueller's Final Report and Executive Privilege
Heartburn spread across Washington after the President’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani suggested that the White House might assert executive privilege as a way to bury at least parts of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s much-anticipated report at the end of his investigation. The way ahead for that report is, to be sure, uncertain. Worrying—especially right now—about an assertion of executive privilege seems premature and misplaced.
Why John Bolton vs. Int’l Criminal Court 2.0 is Different from Version 1.0
It is tempting to read or listen to John Bolton’s speech on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and think, we’ve seen this movie before and know its ending. And in many ways, that’s true. In the early years of the George W. Bush administration, Bolton “was honored” (his words) to lead a similar effort to undermine and even destroy the court. That honor did not last.
Ambass. David Scheffer on John Bolton’s Announcement of “Ugly and Dangerous” Punitive Actions against Judges, Prosecutors of Int’l Criminal Court
[Editor’s Note from Ryan Goodman: I asked Ambassador (ret.) David Scheffer, leading expert on the United States and International Criminal Court for a comment on John Bolton’s speech and the actions announced by the Trump Administration toward the Court.
Perspective | How mistakes by state and local prosecutors can lead to unfair trials
Monday brought heartening news from Louisiana for advocates of the proper administration of criminal justice: The district attorney for Caddo Parish has forthrightly decided not to defend in the U.S. Supreme Court the murder conviction of Corey DeWayne Williams, who was a severely intellectually disabled 16-year-old when he was charged with robbery and murder. But the lessons to be learned from Williams’s case must not be lost just because it won’t move forward to the Supreme Court.
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