Courtney Teasley: Breaking The Cycle Of Incarceration
Mansa Musa TRNN After running a historic campaign to unseat a criminal court judge for the first time in Nashville, Courtney Teasley created the legal education company emeffen to inform…
Georgia Death Case Highlights The Urgent Need For The Supreme Court To Take A New Look At The Clemency Process In Death Penalty Cases
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.…
Supreme Court Dodges the Real Issues In Case About Mail-In Ballots
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…
Just Days After Being Sworn In as Attorney General, Todd Blanche Shows Why He Is Unfit for That Office
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Remember Bill Clinton’s famous verbal footwork during the investigation of his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky? When asked about whether he lied when he told…
It Looks Like Nick Reiner Killed His Mother and Father, and Now He Wants Their Money. No Way
Austin Sarat ScheerPost The history of American law is filled with interesting and often quirky stories. Courts have heard cases about whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable…
How a Supreme Court Decision About the Religious Rights of Rastafarians Could Be a Loss for Every American
Austin D. Sarat ScheerPost The Supreme Court’s MAGA majority has done almost all it can to turn the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom into one of the Constitution’s most…
Ushering In the Age of Impunity: Venezuela, Palestine, and the End of International Law
The recent sound of explosions over Venezuela, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, and Nigeria are not merely the spasms by a declining U.S. empire. They are something much…
Trump’s War on Big Law Means It’s Harder to Challenge the Administration
Some of America’s largest law firms are refusing to take pro bono and paid legal work from groups that seek to hold the government to account on issues like environmental…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Wrongful Deportation Case Is More About Individual Rights Than the Trump Administration’s Foreign Policy
By Chimene Keitner / The Conversation Trump administration officials have repeatedly claimed that judges who order the administration to take action to bring deported Venezuelans back from the El Salvador…
Why Federal Courts Are Unlikely to Save Democracy From Trump’s and Musk’s Attacks
By Maya Sen / The Conversation State governments, community groups, advocacy nonprofits and regular Americans have filed a large and growing number of federal lawsuits opposing President Donald Trump’s barrage…
NY Governor Hochul Vetoes Wrongful Conviction, Immigrant Rights Bills
"Innocent New Yorkers will continue to sit in our jails and prisons, or remain saddled with an unlawful criminal record in our communities, unable to clear their names," warned one…
Bar Association Urged to Fight Censorship of Pro-Palestinian Voices
"The suppression of dissenting voices, at this moment, especially those advocating for peace and non-violence, is antithetical to the very foundations upon which our democracy stands."
Larry’s List: Ever-More-Corporate Universities, the Israeli Crackdown on Speech, Political Polling, and More
By SP Staff ScheerPost is bringing back Larry’s List, a daily news curation from USC communications professor Larry Gross, to keep you up to date with the most cutting edge…
Colorado Lawsuit’s Strategy for Keeping Trump Off Ballot Is Starting to Spread
The lawsuits cite the 14th Amendment, which says former officials who engage in insurrection may not serve as president.
Solitary Confinement Survivors Rally Support for Proposed Federal Ban
With over 122,000 people in solitary nationwide, lawmakers are seeking to end the practice in federal facilities.