by RG | Jun 30, 2026 | above the law
Reports Of Samuel Alito’s Retirement Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: A lil’ oopsie from NPR. Small firms, big money: Raises and bonuses going around. No Holds Barred Take On Attorney General Nominee Todd Blanche: Sheldon Whitehouse is *not* a fan. Citations At The Root...
by RG | Jun 30, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to “every free-born person in this land.”...
by RG | Jun 30, 2026 | above the law
Not every summer bonus announcement comes from a litigation boutique with nine-figure verdicts on the wall. Sometimes it comes from a corporate firm in Coppell, Texas, that represents people buying and selling dry cleaners and HVAC companies. SMB Law Group — a...
by RG | Jun 30, 2026 | above the law
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has written the most comprehensive argument yet against confirming Todd Blanche as Attorney General, published this week in The Contrarian under the headline “Todd Blanche Should Not Be Confirmed.” If you’ve been following our coverage of...
by RG | Jun 30, 2026 | above the law
Sam Alito watched his career flash before his eyes on Tuesday. Immediately after the conclusion of the Supreme Court Term, NPR reported that the justice had announced his retirement, complete with Nina Totenberg’s retrospective on his tenure. Totenberg framed her look...
by RG | Jun 30, 2026 | above the law
The federal judiciary is perpetrating a fraud upon the public. With four judges in the news just this month for committing misconduct — Eleanor Ross, Ryan Nelson, Thomas Luddington, and now Sarah Merriam — we should be honest about systemic flaws in the judicial...
