Alito's Outburst And Tough Times For Partners

But Sam Alito still has a job. ----- The Fourteenth Amendment lays out birthright citizenship in clear terms. Every subsequent legal challenge and all the scholarly work on the subject -- until about a year ago -- agreed on how to read it. Yet, the Supreme Court still managed to ...  Show more

Supreme Court ignores Judge Newman's rights. ----- All the news that's fit to print agrees that Todd Blanche isn't fit to head the Department of Justice. Something about the whole transforming the DOJ into a weaponized arm of Donald Trump's political grievances thing. The Supreme ...  Show more

The FBI's search of Trump's residence has brought on a whole lot of caterwauling on cable news and social media from lawyers and law professors in Trump's orbit. Yet no one seems able (or willing) to accurately describe the whole warrant process. Meanwhile, a federal judge is pul ...  Show more

Michael Moore, the former US Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, discusses the witnesses flipping against Donald Trump. Ann Lipton, a business law professor at Tulane University, discusses how promoters on social media are testing the limits of a 90-year-old securities l ...  Show more

A little Broadway for this week's title. ----- Law firm productivity is down, but are we really worried about that? It's a traditional harbinger of layoffs, though something about this market feels a bit different. Meanwhile, a right-wing advocacy group has sued a pair of Biglaw ...  Show more

Victoria Nourse, a professor at Georgetown Law School, discusses Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg suing US Representative Jim Jordan over his interference in the criminal case against former President Donald Trump. Steven Lubet, a professor at Northwestern School of Law, discusses Justic ...  Show more