by RG | Sep 17, 2026 | above the law
Nearly a year after a federal judge ruled that Lindsey Halligan was never lawfully the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and threw out the political prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James along...
by RG | Sep 17, 2026 | above the law
The Federal Circuit issued a one-year suspension barring Judge Pauline Newman from hearing cases back in 2023. That order was renewed in 2024…. and again in 2025. The window for a fourth renewal is open right now. How can federal judges functionally strip a colleague...
by RG | Sep 17, 2026 | above the law
The post Iran War Costs: $38 Billion, Plus $2 Billion-$3 Billion Per Month Going Forward appeared first on Above the Law.WASHINGTON — According to a Congressional Budget Office report published today, combat operations in Iran have cost the Defense Department around...
by RG | Sep 17, 2026 | above the law
* How law firms became complicit actors in Epstein’s web. [Bloomberg] * Supreme Court maintains order barring states from banning telehealth mifepristone after Louisiana attempted to defy the last Supreme Court order. [ABC News] * Second Amendment scholar previews the...
by RG | Sep 16, 2026 | above the law
You Miss 100 Percent Of The Shots You Don’t Take: Trump administration argues that insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan really was a legally appointed U.S. Attorney despite all the facts and law. Fixing The Court: New law might finally end the Judge Newman stealth...
by RG | Sep 16, 2026 | above the law
Practicing law. Mention legal work to most normal people, and they picture some poor bastard sitting under fluorescent lights at 11:30 at night, surrounded by banker’s boxes, reading footnotes about indemnification clauses until his soul leaves his body. But the truth...
