Moniteau County Prosecutor Shayne Healea argued Tuesday before the Missouri Supreme Court that the state’s possession of privileged attorney-client communications should bar the Attorney General’s Office entirely from prosecuting him for felony vehicular assault. In October 2014, Healea was charged ...
Read More »Roberts promises review of judiciary’s misconduct policies
Chief Justice John Roberts is promising a careful evaluation of the federal judiciary’s sexual misconduct policies and an effort to highlight the work of court employees following the year’s destructive hurricanes. Writing in his annual report on the judiciary, issued ...
Read More »Government says teen’s lawyers misled them in abortion case
The Trump administration on Friday accused lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of misleading the administration in the case of a pregnant immigrant teen who sought and obtained an abortion following a lawsuit. The Department of Justice said Friday ...
Read More »Book’s challenge: Can you do squats like Justice Ginsburg?
Personal trainer Bryant Johnson hears it all the time: Four more years. That’s how long fans of his client, 84-year-old Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, tell him he has to keep her healthy so that a one-term President Donald ...
Read More »Trump cries foul on judges, but he’s ahead of Obama
President Donald Trump says Democrats are holding up his judicial nominees, but almost nine months into his presidency, he has had more judges confirmed than President Barack Obama did in the same time period, and his numbers aren’t far off ...
Read More »Jefferson told lawyers to read these; now they’ll be online
Thick tomes on the laws of England. Half a dozen legal dictionaries. Books on Roman law and maritime law. Those are some of the books Thomas Jefferson thought aspiring lawyers should be reading or using as reference. Now, almost 200 ...
Read More »At high court and others, Trump reverses legal course
Backing employers over employees. Backing the state of Ohio over groups involved in voter registration. Backing a narrow reading of a sexual discrimination law over a broad one. Those are just some of the legal about-faces President Donald Trump’s administration ...
Read More »Meet America’s latest fitness star: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jane Fonda, Richard Simmons and Ruth Bader Ginsburg? The 84-year-old Supreme Court justice is about to join the ranks of workout superstars with a book about her exercise routine. “The RBG Workout: How She Stays Strong … and You Can ...
Read More »Supreme Court wrestles with California police shooting case
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stepped in to the national conversation on police practices, wrestling with a California police shooting case where sheriff’s deputies shot an innocent couple during their search for a wanted man. The justices heard oral arguments ...
Read More »Supreme Court brings gavel down on O’Connor workout class
Years after she left the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor remained enthusiastic about the early morning exercise class she started at the highest court in the land — the basketball court that sits one floor above the courtroom where ...
Read More »‘Justice Scalia’s seat’ has a history going back 150 years
On the night Judge Neil Gorsuch was nominated to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, he was thinking about history. “The towering judges that have served in this particular seat on the Supreme Court, including Antonin ...
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