by RG | Apr 19, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) The United States cannot send its convicted prisoners to a country that will impose cruel and unusual punishment. It has to send them to a country where the United States maintains jurisdiction over them so that they can file writs...
by RG | Apr 19, 2025 | above the law
Norton Rose Fulbright attorneys are being warned by firm leaders to mind their Ps and Qs when talking about Donald Trump. Due to “sensitivities surrounding this subject,” whenever an attorney is writing anything related to Trump they have to get it cleared by the...
by RG | Apr 18, 2025 | above the law
Marco Rubio Pushes For Thought Crime Deportations: This is going to end up in the “How did they let things get so far” part of a history book. NYU’s Law Faculty Model Principled Defiance: Show these other schools how its done! Law School Punishes Hopefuls For Not...
by RG | Apr 18, 2025 | above the law
Applying to law school is bad enough. Throwing your future into the hands of administrators applying bespoke black box methodologies to weigh your life’s work and a 4-hour test. Prospective students shouldn’t have to deal with exploding offers of financial assistance...
by RG | Apr 18, 2025 | above the law
The rule against perpetuities was created for two reasons: (1) to torture bar exam applicants and (2) to establish that the long dead ought not have the right to intervene in the affairs of the living. Because, however benevolent seeming at the time, dead hand control...
by RG | Apr 18, 2025 | above the law
Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. “The New Transparency Rules and the El Salvador Detention Agreement; A...
