“Is that presumption based on what we think was really going through Congress’s mind at the time or is it based on a constitutional overlay, because what was really going through Congress’s time [sic] in 1996 was harshness on this…
Category: SCOTUS
2018
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s September 27, 2018 appearance before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has raised serious questions about his temperament to be a Justice on the highest court in the land.
Kavanaugh’s appearance before the…
2018
In an overly simplistic analogy, Scholastic.com discussed the U.S. Supreme Court by saying it is “… like a referee on a football field. The Congress, the President, the state police, and other government officials are the players. Some can pass…
2018
Category: Criminal Law | SCOTUS
Who controls the defense strategy in a criminal trial: the attorney or the defendant?
That is a question the U.S. Supreme Court will answer in its current term.
Normally, a defense attorney, once he or she accepts a…
2017
Category: Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law | SCOTUS
President Trump’s abrupt firing of former FBI Director James Comey, and its related political fallout, has dominated the news cycle over the last week or so. This intense political coverage has overshadowed other significant executive actions taken by the president.…