Austin Sarat ScheerPost Last spring, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson announced he would be seeking death warrants for three of the fifty-seven inmates on Nevada’s death row. He said…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost The Trump Administration long ago launched a full-scale assault on American elections. Recall that in the president’s first term, after losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton,…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Sometimes a ballroom is more than a ballroom. In President Trump’s case, it is much more than a builder’s dream. It is a material expression of his…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Elections are supposed to be decided at the ballot box. And the right to vote has long been recognized as the basis of all other rights. As…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost On October 7, Secretary of State Marco Rubio used the occasion of a visit to Greece to deliver an elaborately staged speech about the virtues of and…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Last week, the Trump Administration dropped a bombshell when it announced its plan to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan on December 3. Hasan had…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost On September 8, the Trump Administration announced a new round of sanctions targeting aviation and companies that service some of Iran’s privately owned airlines. This followed last…
Austin Sarat The principle is simple. Just like politicians are not supposed to pick their voters, government officials don’t get to pick the reporters who cover them. If they did,…
Austin Sarat It is not often that members of the United States Senate spend time talking about bestiality. But they did on Tuesday when, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing,…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost The state of Georgia plans to execute Stacey Humphreys on September 16. He was convicted and sentenced to death for a double murder that occurred in 2003.…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost When I grew up, the school day always started the same way, with children standing hands over their hearts, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. We said in…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Twenty-five years ago, on September 11, 20001, the United States suffered a tragic, surprise attack from the Afghanistan-based terrorist group, Al-Qaeda. Their coordinated efforts caused devastating losses…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost While the Trump Administration has suffered numerous defeats in its effort to punish America’s leading universities, it has succeeded in many ways in changing the prevailing culture…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Writing about the Supreme Court in 1961, the famous law professor Alexander Bickel praised what hecalled “the passive virtues.” As he explained, “The jurisprudence of the Court…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost At the start of his second term, President Trump opened fire on some of America’s most prestigious universities. His administration cut off or threatened to cut off…
