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Last night I appeared on a local news station with @ProfKamiChavis and others to talk about the Derek Chauvin verdictOne of the other guests, a former sheriff, said that a

At today's Supreme Court confirmation hearing, we will be told that judges are not supposed to make policy decisions.That statement is entirely false.The people who wrote our Constitution expected judges

I have a strange new fan. I’ve directed him to my writing on SCOTUS, which talks about my legal views on courtpacking. But now he keeps tweeting and demanding that

If your criticism about a potential Supreme Court nominee is her religion, can I kindly suggest that you look in the mirror and think about when you decided that religious

Re-reading United Staes v. Ruiz this morning, and I am reminded anew that the Supreme Court literally said it was not going to protect a defendant's constitutional right to discovery

There's a lot of commentary in the media and here on Twitter about how violent protests and looting in Democratically controlled cities is bad for Joe Biden. But I haven't

It’s an admittedly small sample size, but all of the actual prosecutors that I’ve talked to say that Kamala Harris was a progressive prosecutor. It’s the folks who aren’t prosecutors

This passage from @AWeissmann_ in the Atlantic is astounding. The idea that prosecutors “cannot ignore or invent facts” to ensure that a defendant receives a certain sentence is so entirely

Just finished an #AALS2018 panel on intellectual diversity with @JoshMBlackman @Laura_K_Donohue and @rmaccoun (moderated by @RandyEBarnett )We all agree intellectual diversity is important, but not necessarily what it means or

Flynn’s lawyers have made the Twitter argument about Scalia’s dissent in Morrison:“The Supreme Court approved the constitutionality of the Act in an almost unanimous opinion, but Justice Antonin Scalia’s lone

This is the story @CNN chooses to run when crime rates across the nation are plummeting.It tells you everything you need to know about the media’s role in stoking public

There are a lot of terrible things happening in the world right now. But one silver lining of the pandemic is that crime appears to be decreasing in those areas