Two prison employees were killed and several others injured Thursday during an attempted escape at North Carolina’s Pasquotank Correctional Institution, the Charlotte Observer reports. The attempted breakout began around 3 p.m. when inmates set a fire in the prison’s sewing plant, where about 30 inmates...
Oyez has posted audio and transcripts from this week’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court. The court heard argument this week in: Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC The post This week’s oral argument audio now...
Robert Pruett, a Texas inmate convicted in the death of a prison guard, was executed Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers’ attempts to halt the punishment, the Associated Press reports. Pruett was given a lethal injection for the fatal attack on corrections...
Gordon Lloyd and Steve Ealy provide considerable material to ponder. The gist of their argument seems to be that rather than a Progressive political culture centered on quadrennial presidential elections and a governmental system featuring a considerable policy-making authority for both the president and the...
In a speech delivered at the United States Naval Academy on October 10, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein waded into the public debate between data privacy and law enforcement interests. As part of a discussion moderated by former Covington cybersecurity attorney Jeff Kosseff, Rosenstein’s remarks...
Donald Trump’s judicial nominations have been the most successful part of a presidency that has often misfired. The nominees are not only a tribute to the President but to an idea and to an organization. The idea is originalism—the notion that the Constitution’s provisions should...
Caddo Parish, La., Sheriff Steve Prator is angry about the new Louisiana sentencing and parole laws going into effect on November 1. The sheriff complained loudly that the new laws pose a threat to public safety and weren’t well vetted before the Louisiana legislature approved...
Proponents of “living constitutionalism” or other non-originalist theories of constitutional law sometimes argue that our now 230-year-old Constitution wasn’t designed for current social conditions. Prevailing attitudes on a variety of subjects have changed dramatically since 1787, critics of originalism say. Judges must be allowed to...
The U.S. Justice Department singled out four cities and a county on Thursday for allegedly having so-called “sanctuary policies” that may violate a federal law that says local governments cannot limit information-sharing with U.S. immigration officials, Reuters reports. The department said New Orleans, New York...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday declared the U.S. asylum system “broken” because of what he said was fraud committed by immigrants who cross the border illegally and avoid deportation by claiming persecution at home, Politico reports. “This system is currently subject to rampant abuse...