by RG | Apr 6, 2026 | above the law
Last week, Pam Bondi learned that life comes at you fast as she was dumped in the trash (weirdly, not a metaphor). The now-former Attorney General, whose tenure was already doing heavy lifting in the “controversial at best” category, has been roundly mocked since news...
by RG | Apr 6, 2026 | above the law
Legal AI vendors talk about trust constantly. Transparent models. Responsible AI principles. Guardrails and disclosures. Yet many lawyers distrust legal AI not because it is unsafe or unethical, but because it feels inattentive. That distinction matters more than most...
by RG | Apr 6, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. This isn’t legal analysis. It’s idiocy. That would be an F on the bar exam. — Professor Ryan Goodman of NYU Law, who serves as co-editor-in-chief of Just Security, in comments given on X concerning the Trump...
by RG | Apr 6, 2026 | above the law
Suppose Portugal, instead of the United States, did it. Suppose Portugal announced that it wanted France to be its newest state. Governor Macron, and all that. How would the world react? Lunatic at the helm, maybe? Suppose Portugal said that it intended to take over...
by RG | Apr 6, 2026 | above the law
Deepfakes: they’re real and coming to our courtrooms. And they are going to change how we do things. But are our judges and us trial lawyers prepared? I earlier authored an article raising the issue whether the mushrooming creation of deepfakes would jeopardize our...
by RG | Apr 5, 2026 | above the law
Born Loser: Donald Trump took the unprecedented step of sitting in as the Supreme Court heard oral argument on the challenge to the administration’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship. He bailed long before the argument ended once even he could...
