At the Lectern
APRIL 26, 2025
Two University of California law schools have announced they will each have a Supreme Court justice delivering a keynote address at their graduation ceremonies. Justice Leondra Kruger will address UCLA Law’s graduates and UC Davis has scheduled alumna Justice Kelli Evans to speak to its class of 2025. Both ceremonies will take place on May 16.
JURIST
APRIL 26, 2025
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned on Thursday a lawsuit filed by the Kyrgyz prosecutor’s office against the independent media outlet, Aprel TV, for alleged “negative” and “destructive” coverage of government activities. CPJ said that such practices of closing media outlets is unacceptable in a democratic society.
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At the Lectern
APRIL 26, 2025
When the State Bar recently made a by-the-way disclosure towards the end of a press release that some February bar exam questions “were developed with the assistance of” artificial intelligence, it was news to the Supreme Court. Now, the court — which has ultimate authority over attorney licensing — wants answers. The court has asked the Bar “to explain. how and why AI was used to draft, revise, or otherwise develop certain multiple-choice questions, efforts taken t
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 26, 2025
Four days after hearing oral arguments in a challenge to the constitutionality of a task force within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Supreme Court asked both the federal government and the challengers to file new briefs discussing the HHS secretarys power to appoint members of the task force. The group at the center of the case, the U.S.
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At the Lectern
APRIL 26, 2025
After a bit of delay , here’s a report on the Supreme Court’s Wednesday conference. Eminent domain The court granted review in Town of Apple Valley v. Apple Valley Ranchos Water , and it limited review to this issue: “When a public entity files an eminent domain action seeking to take privately held public utility property, and the owner objects to the right to take, what is the proper standard of judicial review for the trial court to apply to determine whether the property ow
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JURIST
APRIL 26, 2025
US President Donald Trump’s administration urged the US Supreme Court on Thursday to enforce a ban on transgender people serving in the military. The Trump administration argued that since the ban implicates a medical condition of gender dysphoria, it demands the lowest level of constitutional review, known as rational basis review. The administration then claimed the 2025 policy issued by the Department of Defense meets that standard of review because “gender dysphoria is associated
LLRX
APRIL 26, 2025
Christina Pagel has mapped out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information.
JURIST
APRIL 26, 2025
A federal judge in New Hampshire on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction in favor of teacher groups, blocking the Department of Education’s (DOE) attempt to withhold federal funding from schools that implement diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. This represents a legal setback to the Trump administration’s effort to end DEI.
LLRX
APRIL 26, 2025
Mohamed Al Elew and Wendy Fry's reporting analyzes federal data that my be a surprise to Floridians about ICE's 287(g) program. All Florida residents now live in a county where local police will be trained to work on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to federal data analyzed by The Markup. The training is part of a rapidly expanding federal program to deputize state and local authorities as immigration enforcers, with the number of participating agencies doubling sinc
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JonathanTurley
APRIL 26, 2025
“This is not normal.” Those words from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., are undeniably true after the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan. However, the reason it is not normal is far more debatable. Dugan is accused of becoming a lawbreaker in seeking to obstruct an effort to arrest a man wanted by federal authorities. If true, that is manifestly not “normal.” As soon as the news of the arrest was reported, Democrats declared another constitutional crisis.
JURIST
APRIL 26, 2025
The DC federal court on Thursday blocked key parts of President Donald Trumps latest sweeping March executive order that sought to impose new voting requirements nationwide and reshape federal election procedures. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the president lacked the constitutional authority to require proof of US citizenship for all federal voter registrationsdeclaring the executive move a violation of the basic separation of powers principles enshrined in the Constitution.
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