by RG | Sep 18, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. [W]e made it and there’s still time for me to do a few things before meeting with my trainer. — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, concluding her final interview on August 5, 2014, with Maeva Marcus, a historian with...
by RG | Sep 18, 2025 | above the law
(Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg)Donald Trump has never been big on the word “no.” Courts have taken judicial notice of this fact. So when the Supreme Court went out of its way to issue a little “advisory opinion dicta,” informing the president that even his...
by RG | Sep 18, 2025 | above the law
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by RG | Sep 18, 2025 | above the law
Jimmy Kimmel’s Show “Indefinitely Suspended” After Mild Trump Joke: We may have to actually legalize comedy soon. Trump Wants To Charge Protesters With RICO: Finding new ways to step all over the Constitution. These Are The Firms You Don’t Want To Go Up Against: Does...
by RG | Sep 18, 2025 | above the law
Last Tuesday, Donald Trump sauntered into Joe’s Seafood in occupied Washington, DC, presumably to order the chain’s $83 filet mignon extra-well done and drenched in ketchup. For about forty-five seconds, the Dear Leader also received a complimentary amuse bouche in...
by RG | Sep 18, 2025 | above the law
Law schools have talked about the “practice-ready lawyer” for years. An aspirational goal that flits into recruiting materials on gossamer wings before collapsing under the weight of three years of casebook work. The legal academy developed its model over a century...
