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Guantanamo detainee loses bid to dismiss charges and disqualify judge over conflicts of interest

JURIST

Navy Captain named Kirk Waits presided over the commission before becoming the Deputy Director of the Navy Office of the Judge Advocate General Criminal Law Division of the Department of Defense. Thus, the court denied the petitions brought by al-Tamir over these conflicts.

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In sequel to McGirt, justices will again review scope of state prosecutorial power in Indian country

SCOTUSBlog

It is a sequel of sorts to the court’s 2020 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma , the most monumental federal Indian law decision of the new century. But Congress never terminated the reservation, nor did it authorize Oklahoma to enforce its criminal laws on the reservation.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

SCOTUSBlog

Days was a member of the Yale Law faculty for more than three decades and led the Supreme Court and appellate practice at Morrison & Foerster from 1997 to 2011. Even if she had never become a judge, Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have been a giant of the legal profession. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. March 15, 1933 – Sept.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson to Join SCOTUS as First Black Female Justice

Constitutional Law Reporter

Despite sharing these similarities with prior Supreme Court justices, Jackson’s path to the Court is unique, and her background is expected to add racial, gender, and legal diversity to the Court. Sentencing Commission, Jackson is intimately familiar with the inner workings of the criminal justice system.

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Trump’s Surprise Witness: Rep. Waters Becomes A Possible Witness Against Her Own Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. Such a result would eviscerate the claim that Trump was guilty of criminal incitement in his speech. Trump was clearly guilty of criminal incitement. If we don’t, we cannot go away.”.