by RG | Aug 20, 2026 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! A U.S. Senator from Nebraska took to the airwaves in 1970 to defend which Supreme Court nominee that critics had branded intellectually undistinguished? The strategy, such as it was, was to concede the...
by RG | Aug 19, 2026 | above the law
The Government Accountability Project forwarded a 25-page whistleblower disclosure to four congressional committees on behalf of former DOJ civil rights attorney Haley Van Erem. It’s a damning indictment of the Department of Justice’s Task Force to Combat...
by RG | Aug 19, 2026 | above the law
Chief Justice Roberts recently wrote a fawning tribute to William Howard Taft that had as much to do with defending his own record than anything else. Roberts noted that Taft actually wrote vanishingly few notable opinions, but one — that Roberts did not mention — was...
by RG | Aug 19, 2026 | above the law
86: DOJ says no one disputes the meaning of term that literally everyone disputes. Get Out While You Can: Meanwhile, DOJ whistleblower disclosure suggests government attorneys are starting to fear losing their licenses when this is all said and done. Better Call Saul...
by RG | Aug 19, 2026 | above the law
IBM’s recent Cost of a Data Breach Report ought to be a wake-up call for legal. Not just for the raw numbers but for the conclusion that “frontier AI models have radically shifted the cybersecurity threat landscape.” And that hits home hard for legal even if the legal...
by RG | Aug 19, 2026 | above the law
I’m proudly Minnesotan. Born and raised in Long Prairie, Minnesota, I’m a big fan of the state’s hunting and fishing, neighborly culture, and leadership in progressive politics. However, the Republican candidate for Minnesota’s open U.S. Senate seat doesn’t think I...
