I have been on the road for most of January, leading me to see a lot of intriguing press pieces from a variety of sources that I have not had time to flag on the blog. (Also, all sorts of football has ...

As reported in this New York Times piece, "President Biden pardoned five activists and public servants on Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to the civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, who ...

After a notably modest use of his clemency powers prior to the latest election, Prez Biden is on a historic clemency tear over the last eight weeks. Today's actiona are set forth in this "Statement ...

Via this new substack post by Chris Geidner, I see that Attorney General Merrick Garland sent this letter to the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to order rescinding the the federal execution ...

I only had a chance to listen to a small portion of the hearings today in the Senate Judiciary Committee involving Prez-Elect Trump's nominee for Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi. What ...

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled yesterday in E.M.D. Sales, Inc. v. Carrera, No. 23-217(S. Ct. Jan. 15, 2025) (available here), that a showing under the Fair Labor Standards Act calls for the ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Thompson v. US, which has the potential to be a major white-collar criminal case because it could narow (or expand) how federal criminal law defines a ...

The US Supreme Court this afternoon granted cert in five cases this afternoon via this order list. Only one of the five involves criminal matters, Bowe v. United States, No. 24-5438, but this one may ...

Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal handed down an interesting ruling late last week in Crist v. Florida, No. 5D2022-2966 (5th App. Fla. Jan. 10, 2025) (available here). This press piece explains ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Hewitt (et al.) v. U.S. to consider this formal question: "Whether the First Step Act’s sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally ...

The title of this post is the title of this essay authored by Barry Latzer available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: A recent report on reincarceration by the Council of State Governments Justice ...

Anyone and everyone following Second Amendment litigation since the Supreme Court's landmark Bruen ruling knows that it is not a question of whether, but just a matter of when, the Justices will take ...